Progress on the development of the Stellar X-ray Polarimeter on board of the Spectrum-X-Gamma Satellite.
Abstract
The authors present the status of the Stellar X-ray Polarimeter at November '94 devoted to measure linear polarisation from cosmic X-ray sources between 2 keV and 15 keV which will be flown on the Spectrum-X-Gamma Satellite. In particular, they focus on the performances of the engineering model after the calibrations at Lawrence Livermore Laboratories and on the improvements which have been introduced on the four flight model imaging proportional counters which are key parts of the experiment.
- Publication:
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Nuovo Cimento C Geophysics Space Physics C
- Pub Date:
- October 1997
- Bibcode:
- 1997NCimC..20..829S
- Keywords:
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- X-Ray Astronomy: Polarimeters;
- X-Ray Astronomy: Space Instrumentation