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Starquake ends hiatus in soft X-ray polarimetry

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Measurements with a CubeSat gas pixel detector reveal a change in the Crab pulsar polarization after a glitch in the spin period, suggesting that starquakes alter the magnetosphere.

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Fig. 1: Polarization fraction for on-pulse (top) and off-pulse (bottom).

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