XIPE the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer

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Soffitta, P. - Bellazzini, R. - Bozzo, E. - Burwitz, V. - Castro-Tirado, A.J. - Costa, E. - Courvoisier, T. - Feng, H. - Gburek, S. - Goosmann, R. W. - Karas, Vladimír - Marin, Frederic - Svoboda, Jiří - Dovčiak, Michal - Horák, Jiří … celkem 111 autorů
XIPE the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer.
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Bellingham: SPIE, 2016, 990515/1-990515/20. Proceedings of SPIE, 9905. ISBN 9781510601895.
[Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. Edinburgh (GB), 26.06.2016-01.07.2016]
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985815
Klíčová slova: X-ray astronomy * polarimetry * X-ray optics
Kód oboru RIV: BH - Optika, masery a lasery

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.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0269168