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X-ray Polarimetry of X-ray Pulsars

open access: yesGalaxies
Radiation from X-ray pulsars (XRPs) was expected to be strongly linearly polarized owing to a large difference in their ordinary and extraordinary mode opacities. The launch of IXPE allowed us to check this prediction. IXPE observed a dozen X-ray pulsars,
Juri Poutanen   +2 more
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Studying Microquasars with X-Ray Polarimetry [PDF]

open access: yesGalaxies, 2018
Microquasars are Galactic black hole systems in which matter is transferred from a donor star and accretes onto a black hole of, typically, 10–20 solar masses.
Giorgio Matt, Francesco Tamborra
doaj   +2 more sources

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) [PDF]

open access: yesResults in Physics, 2016
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) expands observation space by simultaneously adding polarization to the array of X-ray source properties currently measured (energy, time, and location).
Martin C. Weisskopf   +13 more
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Broadband soft x-ray polarimetry [PDF]

open access: yesSPIE Proceedings, 2010
We developed an instrument design capable of measuring linear X-ray polarization over a broad-band using conventional spectroscopic optics. A set of multilayer-coated flats reflects the dispersed X-rays to the instrument detectors. The intensity variation with position angle is measured to determine three Stokes parameters: I, Q, and U -- all as a ...
Schulz, Norbert S.   +3 more
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Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer: prelaunch

open access: yesJournal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 2022
Launched on 2021 December 9, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission will open a new window of investigation—imaging x-ray polarimetry. The observatory features three identical telescopes, each consisting of a mirror module assembly with a ...
Martin C. Weisskopf   +157 more
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X-ray polarimetry of X-ray pulsar X Persei: another orthogonal rotator?

open access: yesMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2023
ABSTRACT X Persei is a persistent low-luminosity X-ray pulsar of period of ≈ 835 s in a Be binary system. The field strength at the neutron star surface is not known precisely, but indirect signs indicate a magnetic field above 1013 G, which makes the object one of the most magnetized known X-ray pulsars.
Mushtukov, A A   +106 more
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XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer [PDF]

open access: yesSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 2016
XIPE, the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer, is a mission dedicated to X-ray Astronomy. At the time of writing XIPE is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4). It promises to reopen the polarimetry window in high energy Astrophysics after more than 4 decades thanks to a detector that efficiently exploits the photoelectric ...
P. Soffitta   +272 more
openaire   +9 more sources

XIPE: the X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer [PDF]

open access: yesExperimental Astronomy, 2013
X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging, allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to be studied. X-ray polarimetry investigates the acceleration process, for example, including those typical of magnetic reconnection in solar flares, but also emission in the ...
Soffitta, Paolo   +98 more
openaire   +10 more sources

Probing Magnetic Fields and Acceleration Mechanisms in Blazar Jets with X-ray Polarimetry

open access: yesGalaxies, 2021
X-ray polarimetry promises us an unprecedented look at the structure of magnetic fields and on the processes at the base of acceleration of particles up to ultrarelativistic energies in relativistic jets.
Fabrizio Tavecchio
doaj   +1 more source

X-ray polarimetry on-board of HXMT [PDF]

open access: yesSPIE Proceedings, 2008
The development of micropixel gas detectors, capable to image tracks produced in a gas by photoelectrons, makes possible to perform polarimetry of X-ray celestial sources in the focus of grazing incidence X-ray telescopes. HXMT is a mission by the Chinese Space Agency aimed to survey the Hard X-ray Sky with Phoswich detectors, by exploitation of the ...
Soffitta Paolo   +19 more
openaire   +3 more sources

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