Abstract
We briefly report first results of high time resolution optical multi-band panoramic photo-polarimetric observations of the eclipsing binary millisecond redback pulsar J1023+0038 obtained in February 2017 with the 6 m BTA telescope. The time resolution was varied from 10 to 120 ms depending on observational mode. Our data show that the pulsar still remained in the low-mass X-ray binary stage, characterised by rapid flaring at time scales of 10–100 s with amplitudes of 0.2–0.5 mag. We resolved a fine structure of the flares at time scales of 0.1–10 s. The polarimetry at the time scale of 0.1 s shows no polarization with an upper limit of 2%–4% for the linear polarisation degree in flaring and quiet stages, while at a 10 minute scale averaging it is about 1.5% at 3σ significance. We shortly outline implications of the results.
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