POLARIX: a small mission of x-ray polarimetry
| Autor: | Costa, Enrico, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Soffitta, Paolo, Muleri, Fabio, Feroci, Marco, Frutti, Massimo, Mastropietro, Marcello, Pacciani, Luigi, Rubini, Alda, Morelli, Ennio, Baldini, Luca, Bitti, Francesco, Brez, Alessandro, Cavalca, Francesco, Latronico, Luca, Massai, MARCO MARIA, Omodei, Nicola, Pinchera, Michele, Sgro, Carmelo, Spandre, Gloria, Matt, Giorgio, Perola Giuseppe Cesare, Chincarini, Guido, Citterio, Oberto, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Pareschi, Giovanni, Cotroneo, Vincenzo, BE Turner MJL, Hasinger, G. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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| Zdroj: | SPIE Proceedings. |
| ISSN: | 0277-786X |
| Popis: | X-Ray Polarimetry can be now performed by using a Micro Pattern Gas Chamber in the focus of a telescope. It requires large area optics for most important scientific targets. But since the technique is additive a dedicated mission with a cluster of small telescopes can perform many important measurements and bridge the 40 year gap between OSO-8 data and future big telescopes such as XEUS. POLARIX has been conceived as such a pathfinder. It is a Small Satellite based on the optics of JET-X. Two telescopes are available in flight configuration and three more can be easily produced starting from the available superpolished mandrels. We show the capabilities of such a cluster of telescopes each equipped with a focal plane photoelectric polarimeter and discuss a few alternative solutions. Comment: 9 pages, 5 figures |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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