The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): technical overview
| Title: | The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): technical overview |
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| Authors: | O'Dell, Stephen L.; Baldini, Luca; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Costa, Enrico; Elsner, Ronald F.; Kaspi, Victoria M.; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.; Latronico, Luca; Marshall, Herman L.; Matt, Giorgio; Mulieri, Fabio; Ramsey, Brian D.; Romani, Roger W.; Soffitta, Paolo; Tennant, Allyn F.; Weisskopf, Martin C.; Allen, D. Zachary; Amici, Fabrizio; Antoniak, Spencer; Attina, Primo; Bachetti, Matteo; Barbanera, Mattia; Baumgartner, Wayne H.; Bladt, Jeff; Bongiorno, Stephen D.; Borotto, Fabio; Brooks, Thomas; Bussinger, Scott; Bygott, H. Kyle; Cavazzuti, Elisabetta; Ceccanti, Marco; Citraro, Saverio; Deininger, William D.; Del Monte, Ettore; Dietz, Kurtis L.; Di Lalla, Niccolò; Di Persio, Giuseppe; Donnarumma, Immacolata; Erickson, Jennifer; Evangelista, Yuri; Fabiani, Sergio; Ferrazzoli, Riccardo; Foster, Michele; Giusti, Manuela; Gunji, Shuichi; Guy, Larry; Johnson, Sandra; Kalinowski, William; Kelley, Anthony R.; Kilaru, Kiranmayee; Lefevre, Carlo; Maldera, Simone; Manfreda, Alberto; Marengo, Marco; Masciarelli, James; McEachen, Mike; Mereu, Paolo; Minuti, Massimo; Mitchell, Mark A.; Mitchell, Scott; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Morbidini, Alfredo; Mosti, Federico; Nasimi, Hikmat; Negri, Barbara; Orsini, Leonardo; Osborne, Darren; Pavelitz, Steven D.; Pentz, Christina; Perri, Matteo; Pesce-Rollins, Melissa; Peterson, Colin; Piazzolla, Raffaele; Pieraccini, Stefano; Pilia, Maura; Pinchera, Michele; Puccetti, Simonetta; Ranganathan, Jaganathan; Read, Tim; Rubini, Alda; Santoli, Francesco; Sarra, Paolo; Schindhelm, Sarah; Sciortino, Andrea; Seckar, Chris; Sgrò, Carmelo; Smith, Brian T.; Speegle, Chet O.; Tamagawa, Toru; Tardiola, Marcello; Tobia, Antonino; Tortosa, Alessia; Trois, Alessio; Weddendorf, Bruce; Wedmore, Jeff; Zanetti, Davide |
| Contributors: | O'Dell, Stephen L.; Baldini, Luca; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Costa, Enrico; Elsner, Ronald F.; Kaspi, Victoria M.; Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.; Latronico, Luca; Marshall, Herman L.; Matt, Giorgio; Mulieri, Fabio; Ramsey, Brian D.; Romani, Roger W.; Soffitta, Paolo; Tennant, Allyn F.; Weisskopf, Martin C.; Allen, D. Zachary; Amici, Fabrizio; Antoniak, Spencer; Attina, Primo; Bachetti, Matteo; Barbanera, Mattia; Baumgartner, Wayne H.; Bladt, Jeff; Bongiorno, Stephen D.; Borotto, Fabio; Brooks, Thoma; Bussinger, Scott; Bygott, H. Kyle; Cavazzuti, Elisabetta; Ceccanti, Marco; Citraro, Saverio; Deininger, William D.; Del Monte, Ettore; Dietz, Kurtis L.; Di Lalla, Niccolò; Di Persio, Giuseppe; Donnarumma, Immacolata; Erickson, Jennifer; Evangelista, Yuri; Fabiani, Sergio; Ferrazzoli, Riccardo; Foster, Michele; Giusti, Manuela; Gunji, Shuichi; Guy, Larry; Johnson, Sandra; Kalinowski, William; Kelley, Anthony R.; Kilaru, Kiranmayee; Lefevre, Carlo; Maldera, Simone; Manfreda, Alberto; Marengo, Marco; Masciarelli, Jame; Mceachen, Mike; Mereu, Paolo; Minuti, Massimo; Mitchell, Mark A.; Mitchell, Scott; Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki; Morbidini, Alfredo; Mosti, Federico; Nasimi, Hikmat; Negri, Barbara; Orsini, Leonardo; Osborne, Darren; Pavelitz, Steven D.; Pentz, Christina; Perri, Matteo; Pesce-Rollins, Melissa; Peterson, Colin; Piazzolla, Raffaele; Pieraccini, Stefano; Pilia, Maura; Pinchera, Michele; Puccetti, Simonetta; Ranganathan, Jaganathan; Read, Tim; Rubini, Alda; Santoli, Francesco; Sarra, Paolo; Schindhelm, Sarah; Sciortino, Andrea; Seckar, Chri; Sgrò, Carmelo; Smith, Brian T.; Speegle, Chet O.; Tamagawa, Toru; Tardiola, Marcello; Tobia, Antonino; Tortosa, Alessia; Trois, Alessio; Weddendorf, Bruce; Wedmore, Jeff; Zanetti, Davide |
| Publisher Information: | SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING; 1000 20TH ST, PO BOX 10, BELLINGHAM, WA 98227-0010 USA |
| Publication Year: | 2018 |
| Collection: | Sapienza Università di Roma: CINECA IRIS |
| Subject Terms: | X-ray astronomy; polarimetry; mission; grazing-incidence optic; gas pixel detectors |
| Description: | The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) will expand the information space for study of cosmic sources, by adding linear polarization to the properties (time, energy, and position) observed in x-ray astronomy. Selected in 2017 January as a NASA Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) mission, IXPE will be launched into an equatorial orbit in 2021. The IXPE mission will provide scientifically meaningful measurements of the x-ray polarization of a few dozen sources in the 2-8 keV band, including polarization maps of several x-ray-bright extended sources and phase-resolved polarimetry of many bright pulsating x-ray sources. |
| Document Type: | conference object |
| Language: | English |
| Relation: | info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9781510619517; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/isbn/9781510619524; info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/wos/WOS:000452819200044; ispartofbook:Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; SPIE Optics + Photonics 2018; volume:10699; firstpage:68; serie:PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE, THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR OPTICAL ENGINEERING; http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1564419 |
| DOI: | 10.1117/12.2314146 |
| Availability: | http://hdl.handle.net/11573/1564419; https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2314146 |
| Accession Number: | edsbas.F5AD115D |
| Database: | BASE |