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WE have undertaken a systematic investigation of the polarization of radio pulses from a number of pulsars, using a polarimeter feed in the Mark I radio telescope at 408 MHz. The results for the Crab Nebula pulsar, NP 0532, are of special interest, because they may be compared with the optical polarization recently measured by Wampler et al.1. We therefore now present a preliminary analysis for the main radio pulse, both in the form of an integration over many pulses and for individual pulses recorded photographically.
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Wampler, E. J., Scargle, J. D., and Miller, J. S., Astrophys J. Lett., 157, L1 (1969).
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GRAHAM, D., LYNE, A. & SMITH, F. Physical Sciences: Polarization of the Radio Pulses from the Crab Nebula Pulsar. Nature 225, 526 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1038/225526a0
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