The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE)

Autor: Martin C. Weisskopf, Brian Ramsey, Stephen L. O’Dell, Allyn Tennant, Ronald Elsner, Paolo Soffita, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Enrico Costa, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Victoria Kaspi, Fabio Mulieri, Herman Marshall, Giorgio Matt, Roger Romani

Publikováno v: Results in Physics, Vol 6, Iss , Pp 1179-1180 (2016)

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 understandin

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When the Milky Way hosted a quasar

Autor: Frederic Marin, Eugene Churazov, Ildar Khabibullin, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Laura Di Gesu, Thibault Barnouin, Alessandro Di Marco, Riccardo Middei, Alexey Vikhlinin, Enrico Costa, Paolo Soffitta, Fabio Muleri, Rashid Sunyaev, William Forman, Ralph Kraft, Stefano Bianchi, Immacolata Donnarumma, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Teruaki Enoto, Iván Agudo, Lucio Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephen Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccolo Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Niccolo Di Lalla, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovciak, Steven Ehlert, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Javier Garcia, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Adam Ingram, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana Jorstad, Philip Kaaret, Vladimir Karas, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Henric Krawczynski, Fabio La Monaca, Luca Latronico, Ioannis Liodakis, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Andrea Marinucci, Alan Marscher, Herman Marshall, Francesco Massaro, Giorgio Matt, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, C.-Y. Ng, Stephen O'Dell, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George Pavlov, Abel Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Juri Poutanen, Simonetta Puccetti, Brian Ramsey, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver Roberts, Roger Romani, Carmelo Sgro, Patrick Slane, Gloria Spandre, Doug Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn Tennant, Nicholas Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey Tsygankov, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Martin Weisskopf, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie, Silvia Zane

The Galactic Center harbors diffuse X-ray emission co-spatial with giant molecular clouds and featuring hard X-ray spectra with a prominent fluorescent iron line at 6.4 keV [1–3]. These spectral properties are characteristic of the reflected emissi

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https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-2312100/v1

Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) - Ready for Flight

Autor: William D. Deininger, William Kalinowski, Michael Head, Colin Peterson, Spencer Antoniak, Rondal Mize, Martin C. Weisskopf, Brian Ramsey, Stephen L. O'Dell, Allyn Tennant, Paolo Soffitta, Francesco Santoli, Ettore Del Monte, Michele Pinchera, Alessio Trois, Darren Osborne

Publikováno v: 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO).

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https://doi.org/10.1109/aero53065.2022.9843233

Toward the fabrication of a 5-μm-resolution Wolter microscope for the National Ignition Facility (invited)

Autor: Patrick R. Champey, Jeffery Kolodziejczak, Bernard Kozioziemski, Jacqueline Davis, Charles Griffith, Tom Kester, Kiranmayee Kilaru, Amy Meekham, Joe Menapace, Brian Ramsey, Oliver J. Roberts, Javier Sanchez, Panini Singam, W. Scott Smith, Chet Speegle, Mark Stahl, Tayyab Suratwala, Nick Thomas, Mark Young, Julia K. Vogel

Publikováno v: Review of Scientific Instruments. 93:113504

Advancements in computer-controlled polishing, metrology, and replication have led to an x-ray mirror fabrication process that is capable of producing high-resolution Wolter microscopes. We present the fabrication and test of a nickel–cobalt replic

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https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0101304

FOXSI-4: the high resolution focusing X-ray rocket payload to observe a solar flare

Autor: Tadayuki Takahashi, Gregory Kyle, Jessie Duncan, Noriyuki Narukage, Steven Christe, Hunter Kanniainen, J. C. Martínez-Oliveros, Daniel F. Ryan, Shin-nosuke Ishikawa, Sophie Musset, Christine A. Jhabvala, Yixian Zhang, Lindsay Glesener, Amy Winebarger, Juan Camilo Buitrago-Casas, Aruna N. Ramanayaka, Eliad Peretz, S. Bongiorno, Athanasios Pantazides, J. T. Vievering, Savannah Perez-Piel, Brian Ramsey, Säm Krucker, Sabrina Savage, Patrick Champey, Jeff McCracken, Kelsey Gilchrist, Shin Watanabe, Gregory Dalton, P. S. Athiray, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Sasha Courtade

Publikováno v: UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXII.

The FOXSI-4 sounding rocket will fly a significantly upgraded instrument in NASA's first solar are campaign. It will deploy direct X-ray focusing optics which have revolutionized our understanding of astrophysical phenomena. For example, they have al

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https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2594701