The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): technical overview III

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作者
Soffitta, Paolo [1 ]
Attina, Primo [2 ]
Baldini, Luca [3 ,4 ]
Barbanera, Mattia [3 ]
Baumgartner, Wayne H. [7 ]
Bellazzini, Ronaldo [3 ]
Bladt, Jeff [5 ]
Bongiorno, Stephen D. [7 ]
Brez, Alessandro [3 ]
Castellano, Simone [3 ]
Carpentiero, Rita [6 ]
Castronuovo, Marco [6 ]
Cavalli, Luca [17 ]
Cavazzuti, Elisabetta [6 ]
D'Amico, Fabio [6 ]
Citraro, Saverio [3 ]
Costa, Enrico [1 ]
Deininger, William D. [5 ]
D'Alba, ELisa [17 ]
Del Monte, Ettore [1 ]
Diets, Kutis L. [7 ]
Di Lalla, Niccolo [3 ]
Di Marco, Alessandro [1 ]
Di Persio, Guseppe [1 ]
Donnarumma, Immacolata [6 ]
Fabiani, Sergio [1 ]
Ferrazzoli, Riccardo [1 ]
Guy, Larry [5 ]
Head, Michael [5 ]
Kalinowski, William [5 ]
Kolodziejczak, Jeffery [7 ]
Latronico, Luca [8 ]
Lefevre, Carlo [1 ]
Lorenzi, Paolo [17 ]
Lucchesi, Leonardo [3 ]
Maldera, Simone [8 ]
Manfreda, Alberto [3 ]
Mangraviti, Elio [17 ]
Marshall, Herman L. [9 ]
Masciarelli, James [5 ]
Matt, Giorgio [10 ,11 ]
Minuti, Massimo [3 ]
Mize, Rondal [7 ]
Muleri, Fabio [1 ]
Nasimi, Hikmat [3 ]
Negri, Barbara [6 ]
Nuti, Alessio [3 ]
O'Dell, Stephen L. [7 ]
Orsini, Leonardo [3 ]
Osborne, Darren [12 ]
机构
[1] INAF Ist Astrofis & Planetol Spaziali, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133 Rome, RM, Italy
[2] INAF Osservatorio Astrofis Torino, Str Osservatorio 20, I-10025 Pino Torinese, TO, Italy
[3] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl Pisa, Largo Bruno Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, PI, Italy
[4] Univ Pisa, Lungarno Antonio Pacinotti 43, I-56126 Pisa, PI, Italy
[5] Ball Aerosp, 1600 Commerce St, Boulder, CO 80301 USA
[6] Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, Via Politecn, I-00133 Rome, RM, Italy
[7] NASA, Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
[8] Ist Nazl Fis Nucl Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, I-10125 Turin, TO, Italy
[9] MIT, 77 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139 USA
[10] Univ Roma Tre, Via Vasca Navale 84, I-00146 Rome, RM, Italy
[11] I Lab Atmospher & Space Phys, 1234 Innovat Dr, Boulder, CO 80303 USA
[12] Lab Atmospher & Space Phys, 1234 Innovat Dr, Boulder, CO 80303 USA
[13] INAF Osservatorio Astron Roma, Via Frascati 33, I-00078 Monte Porzio Catone, RM, Italy
[14] ASI Space Sci Data Ctr, Via Politecn,Edificio D, I-00133 Rome, RM, Italy
[15] Univ Roma Tor Vergata, Via Lucullo 11, I-00187 Rome, RM, Italy
[16] Stanford Univ, 382 Via Pueblo Mall, Stanford, CA 94305 USA
[17] OHB Italia SpA, Via Gallarate 150, I-20151 Milan, MI, Italy
[18] INAF Osservatorio Astron Cagliari, Via Sci 5, I-09047 Selargius, CA, Italy
[19] Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Linc Res, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
[20] Univ Torino, Via Giuseppe Verdi 8, I-10124 Turin, TO, Italy
[21] Marshall Space Flight Ctr, USRA, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
[22] Marshall Space Flight Ctr, ESSCA, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
[23] Northrop Grumman Innovat Syst, 600 Pine Ave, Goleta, CA 93117 USA
[24] Nagoya Univ, Chikusa Ku, Furo Cho, Nagoya, Aichi 4648602, Japan
[25] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, I-00185 Rome, RM, Italy
[26] RIKEN, Nishina Ctr, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[27] Weddendorf Design, 14060 Valley Vista Dr, Huntsville, AL 35803 USA
来源
SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2020: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY | 2021年 / 11444卷
关键词
X-ray; Polarimetry; Astrophysics; Optics; Gas Pixel Detector; POLARIZATION; RADIATION;
D O I
10.1117/12.2567001
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) will add linear polarization (degree and angle) to the usual features (time, energy, and position) typical of an x-ray astronomy mission. It will expand the available information. IXPE is a NASA Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) mission with a large contribution by ASI which will be launched into an equatorial orbit in 2021. While several non-useful upper limits are available back from the '70 the two order of magnitude improvement of IXPE mission will provide meaningful observations among few dozen sources in the 2-8 keV band. Thanks to its imaging capabilities, it will be possible to produce for the first time polarization maps of several X-ray-bright extended sources. Thanks to its sensitivity, also phase-resolved polarimetry of many bright pulsating x-ray sources will be available.
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