Outcomes of the IXPE instrument calibration
- Fabiani, Sergio
- Muleri, Fabio
- Di Marco, Alessandro
- La Monaca, Fabio
- Rankin, John
- Soffitta, Paolo
- Amici, Fabrizio
- Attina, Primo
- Baldini, Luca
- Barbanera, Mattia
- Brienza, Daniele
- Castellano, Simone
- Citraro, Saverio
- Costa, Enrico
- Evangelista, Yuri
- Del Monte, Ettore
- Di Cosimo, Sergio
- Di Persio, Giuseppe
- Ferrazzoli, Riccardo
- Lefevre, Carlo
- Loffredo, Pasqualino
- Lucchesi, Leonardo
- Manfreda, Alberto
- Tobia, Antonino
- Morbidini, Alfredo
- Minuti, Massimo
- Nasimi, Hikmat
- Nuti, Alessio
- Piazzolla, Raffaele
- Orsini, Leonardo
- Ratheesh, Ajay
- Pinchera, Michele
- Rubini, Alda
- Santoli, Francesco
- Scalise, Emanuele
- Sgrò, Carmelo
- Trois, Alessio
- Xie, Fei
DOIAbstract
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is the next Nasa Small Explorer mission foreseen for the lunch in 2021. It is a partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). IXPE is devoted to X-ray polarimetry in the 2-8 keV energy band. The IXPE telescope comprises three grazing incidence mirror modules coupled to three detector units hosting each one a Gas Pixel Detector (GPD) polarimeter. The GPD exploits the photoelectric effect to measure the linear polarization of the X-ray emission from astrophysical sources. A wide and accurate on ground calibration was carried out on the IXPE detector units at INAF-IAPS in Italy. A dedicated facility was set-up to calibrate the detector units with polarized and unpolarised X-rays at different energie...
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