{"id":7511,"date":"2025-07-15T16:20:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:20:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/?p=7511"},"modified":"2025-07-16T13:31:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T11:31:34","slug":"in-brera-celestial-maps-and-terrestrial-maps-media-inaf-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/in-brera-celestial-maps-and-terrestrial-maps-media-inaf-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Between the ups and downs of a pulsar with Ixpe &#8211; Polarization reveals the Secret of PSR J1023+0038 &#8211; Media INAF"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An international team led by INAF has measured for the first time the polarization of light emitted by a transitional millisecond pulsar in three different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum: X-rays, optical, and radio. The study, published in ApJL, indicates that the emission is dominated by the pulsar&#8217;s particle wind and not by the matter the pulsar itself is sucking from its companion star. The paper&#8217;s first author is our researcher Maria Cristina Baglio. Other authors include our researchers: Sergio Campana, Stefano Covino, Stefano Giarratana, Sara Elisa Motta, Paolo D&#8217;Avanzo, Giulia Illiano and Marco Messa.<br>Read the full story on:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.media.inaf.it\/2025\/07\/15\/ixpe-psr-j1023-0038\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Media INAF (in italian)<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/missions\/ixpe\/nasas-ixpe-imager-reveals-mysteries-of-rare-pulsar\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">NASA<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1190\" height=\"734\" src=\"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/pulsar-baglio-ENG.png\" alt=\"Artist's impression of the central regions of the PSR J1023+0038 system, showing the pulsar, the inner accretion disk, and the pulsar wind. Credits: Marco Maria Messa (University of Milan and INAF) and Maria Cristina Baglio (INAF)\" class=\"wp-image-7519\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Artist&#8217;s impression of the central regions of the PSR J1023+0038 system, showing the pulsar, the inner accretion disk, and the pulsar wind. Credits: Marco Maria Messa (University of Milan and INAF) and Maria Cristina Baglio (INAF)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team led by INAF has measured for the first time the polarization of light emitted by a transitional millisecond pulsar in three different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum: X-rays, optical, and radio. The study, published in ApJL, indicates that the emission is dominated by the pulsar&#8217;s particle wind and not by the matter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,30],"tags":[563,564,566,565],"class_list":["post-7511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","category-scientific-news","tag-agnese-mandrino-2","tag-cristina-zangelmi-2","tag-stellar-maps","tag-terrestrial-maps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7511"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7530,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7511\/revisions\/7530"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brera.inaf.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}