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POLARIX: a pathfinder mission of X-ray polarimetry | Enrico Costa
; Ronaldo Bellazzini
; Gianpiero Tagliaferri
; Giorgio Matt
; Andrea Argan
; Primo Attina'
; Luca Baldini
; Stefano Basso
; Alessandro Brez
; Oberto Citterio
; Sergio Di Cosimo
; Vincenzo Cotroneo
; Sergio Fabiani
; Marco Feroci
; Antonella Ferri
; Luca Latronico
; Francesco Lazzarotto
; Massimo Minuti
; Ennio Morelli
; Fabio Muleri
; Lucio Nicolini
; Giovanni Pareschi
; Giuseppe Di Persio
; Michele Pinchera
; Massimiliano Razzano
; Luigia Reboa
; Alda Rubini
; Antonio Maria Salonico
; Carmelo Sgro'
; Paolo Soffitta
; Gloria Spandre
; Daniele Spiga
; Alessio Trois
; | Date: |
3 May 2011 | Abstract: | Since the birth of X-ray astronomy, spectral, spatial and timing observation
improved dramatically, procuring a wealth of information on the majority of the
classes of the celestial sources. Polarimetry, instead, remained basically
unprobed. X-ray polarimetry promises to provide additional information
procuring two new observable quantities, the degree and the angle of
polarization. POLARIX is a mission dedicated to X-ray polarimetry. It exploits
the polarimetric response of a Gas Pixel Detector, combined with position
sensitivity, that, at the focus of a telescope, results in a huge increase of
sensitivity. Three Gas Pixel Detectors are coupled with three X-ray optics
which are the heritage of JET-X mission. POLARIX will measure time resolved
X-ray polarization with an angular resolution of about 20 arcsec in a field of
view of 15 arcmin $ imes$ 15 arcmin and with an energy resolution of 20 % at 6
keV. The Minimum Detectable Polarization is 12 % for a source having a flux of
1 mCrab and 10^5 s of observing time. The satellite will be placed in an
equatorial orbit of 505 km of altitude by a Vega launcher.The telemetry
down-link station will be Malindi. The pointing of POLARIX satellite will be
gyroless and it will perform a double pointing during the earth occultation of
one source, so maximizing the scientific return. POLARIX data are for 75 % open
to the community while 25 % + SVP (Science Verification Phase, 1 month of
operation) is dedicated to a core program activity open to the contribution of
associated scientists. The planned duration of the mission is one year plus
three months of commissioning and SVP, suitable to perform most of the basic
science within the reach of this instrument. | Source: | arXiv, 1105.0637 | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites |
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