A Spatially Resolved X-Ray Polarization Map of the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula
A Spatially Resolved X-Ray Polarization Map of the Vela Pulsar Wind Nebula
Abstract In this paper, we present a full spatially resolved polarization map for the Vela pulsar wind nebula (PWN) observed by IXPE. By employing effective background discrimination techniques, our results show a remarkably high degree of local polarization in the outskirt region, exceeding 60% (55%) with a probability of 95% …