XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer
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Grinberg, Victoria
Linares Alegret, Manuel
Marshall, Herman
Schulz, Norbert S.
Date Issued
June 2016
Journal
Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
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SPIE
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Soffitta, P., et al. "XIPE: The x-Ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer." Proceedings Volume 9905, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 26 June - July 1, 2016, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, edited by Jan-Willem A. den Herder et al., 2016, SPIE, p. 990515. © 2016 SPIE
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Abstract
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 effect and to X-ray optics with large effective area. XIPE uniqueness is time-spectrally-spatially-resolved X-ray polarimetry as a breakthrough in high energy astrophysics and fundamental physics. Indeed the payload consists of three Gas Pixel Detectors at the focus of three X-ray optics with a total effective area larger than one XMM mirror but with a low weight. The payload is compatible with the fairing of the Vega launcher. XIPE is designed as an observatory for X-ray astronomers with 75 % of the time dedicated to a Guest Observer competitive program and it is organized as a consortium across Europe with main contributions from Italy, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden.
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MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2233046
