The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)
Abstract
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). IXPE will thus open new dimensions for understanding how X-ray emission is produced in astrophysical objects, especially in systems under extreme physical conditions.
- Publication:
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Results in Physics
- Pub Date:
- 2016
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.rinp.2016.10.021
- Bibcode:
- 2016ResPh...6.1179W
- Keywords:
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- X-ray astronomy;
- X-ray polarimetry;
- X-ray imaging