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Observation of vacuum birefringence in magnetar 1E 1547-5408

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Astronomers using NASA’s Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), the NICER X-ray instrument, and Australia’s Murriyang radio telescope have observed the magnetar 1E 1547-5408. The coordinated observations, lasting ove