The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Technical Overview

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(Universita degli Studi Roma Tre, Rome, Italy)

关键词: ASTRONOMICAL MODELS;    ASTROPHYSICS;    EMISSION SPECTRA;    IMAGING TECHNIQUES;    POLARIMETRY;    X RAY ASTRONOMY;    X RAY SOURCES;    EQUATORIAL ORBITS;    MAGNETIC FIELDS;    LINEAR POLARIZATION;    STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;    X RAYS;   

RP-ID  :  MSFC-E-DAA-TN60040

学科分类：天文学(综合)

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来源: NASA Technical Reports Server

【 摘 要 】

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.