Performance of the X-Calibur hard X-ray polarimetry mission during its 2018/19 long-duration balloon flight

被引：5

作者：

Abarr, Q. ^{[1
,2
]}

Beheshtipour, B. ^{[1
,2
,14
]}

Beilicke, M. ^{[1
]}

Bose, R. ^{[1
]}

Braun, D. ^{[1
]}

de Geronimo, G. ^{[4
]}

Dowkontt, P. ^{[1
]}

Errando, M. ^{[1
]}

Gadson, T. ^{[5
]}

Guarino, V. ^{[6
]}

Heatwole, S. ^{[5
]}

Hossen, M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Iyer, N. ^{[7
,8
]}

Kislat, F. ^{[9
]}

Kiss, M. ^{[7
,8
]}

Kitaguchi, T. ^{[10
]}

Krawczynski, H. ^{[1
,2
,3
]}

Lanzi, J. ^{[5
]}

Li, S. ^{[11
]}

Lisalda, L. ^{[1
,2
]}

Okajima, T. ^{[12
]}

Pearce, M. ^{[7
,8
]}

Peterson, Z. ^{[5
]}

Press, L. ^{[1
]}

Rauch, B. ^{[1
,2
]}

Simburger, G. ^{[1
]}

Stuchlik, D. ^{[5
]}

Takahashi, H. ^{[13
]}

Tang, J. ^{[1
]}

Uchida, N. ^{[13
]}

West, A. ^{[1
,2
,9
]}

机构：

[1] Washington Univ St Louis, 1 Brookings Dr,CB 1105, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[2] Washington Univ, McDonnell Ctr Space Sci, St Louis, MO USA

[3] Washington Univ, Quantum Sensor Ctr, St Louis, MO USA

[4] DG Circuits, 30 Pine Rd, Syosset, NY 11791 USA

[5] NASA Wallops Flight Facil, 32400 Fulton St, Wallops Isl, VA 23337 USA

[6] Guarino Engn, 1134 S Scoville Ave, Oak Pk, IL 60304 USA

[7] KTH Royal Inst Technol, Dept Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[8] AlbaNova Univ Ctr, Oskar Klein Ctr Cosmoparticle Phys, SE-10691 Stockholm, Sweden

[9] Univ New Hampshire, Space Sci Ctr, Dept Phys & Astron, 8 Coll Rd, Durham, NH 03824 USA

[10] RIKEN Nishina Ctr, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan

[11] Brookhaven Natl Lab, 98 Rochester St, Upton, NY 11973 USA

[12] NASAs Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[13] University, Dept Phys Sci, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashihiroshima 7398526, Japan

[14] Leibniz Univ Hannover, Max Planck Inst Gravitat Phys, Albert Einstein Inst, Hannover, Germany

来源：

ASTROPARTICLE PHYSICS | 2022年 / 143卷

基金：

瑞典研究理事会; 美国国家科学基金会;

关键词：

X-ray; Polarization; Instrumentation; CRAB PULSAR; POLARIZATION; TELESCOPE; NEBULA;

D O I：

10.1016/j.astropartphys.2022.102749

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

X-Calibur is a balloon-borne telescope that measures the polarization of high-energy X-rays in the 15-50 keV energy range. The instrument makes use of the fact that X-rays scatter preferentially perpendicular to the polarization direction. A beryllium scattering element surrounded by pixellated CZT detectors is located at the focal point of the InFOC mu S hard X-ray mirror. The instrument was launched for a long-duration balloon (LDB) flight from McMurdo (Antarctica) on December 29, 2018, and obtained the first constraints of the hard X-ray polarization of an accretion-powered pulsar. Here, we describe the characterization and calibration of the instrument on the ground and its performance during the flight, as well as simulations of particle backgrounds and a comparison to measured rates. The pointing system and polarimeter achieved the excellent projected performance. The energy detection threshold for the anticoincidence system was found to be higher than expected and it exhibited unanticipated dead time. Both issues will be remedied for future flights. Overall, the mission performance was nominal, and results will inform the design of the follow-up mission XL-Calibur, which is scheduled to be launched in summer 2022.

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