The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): technical overview III
Date Issued
2020
Author(s)
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Baldini, Luca
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Barbanera, Mattia
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Baumgartner, Wayne H.
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Bellazzini, Ronaldo
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Bladt, Jeff
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Bongiorno, Stephen D.
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Brez, Alessandro
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Castellano, Simone
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Carpentiero, Rita
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Castronuovo, Marco
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Cavalli, Luca
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Cavazzuti, Elisabetta
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Citraro, Saverio
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Deininger, William D.
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D'Alba, Elsa
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Diets, Kutis L.
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Di Lalla, Niccolo'
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Donnarumma, Immacolata
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Elsner, Ronald F.
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Guy, Larry
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Kalinowski, William
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Kolodziejczak, Jeffery
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Latronico, Luca
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Lorenzi, Paolo
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Lucchesi, Leonardo
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Maldera, Simone
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Manfreda, Alberto
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Mangraviti, Elio
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Marshall, Herman L.
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Masciarelli, James
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Minuti, Massimo
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Nasimi, Hikmat
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Negri, Barbara
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NUTI, Alessio
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Orsini, Leonardo
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Osborne, Darren
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PERRI, Matteo
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Pesce-Rollins, Melissa
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Peterson, Colin
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Pinchera, Michele
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Puccetti, Simonetta
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Ramsey, Brian
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RATHEESH, AJAY
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Romani, Roger W.
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Sarra, Paolo
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SANTOLI, Francesco
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Sciortino, Andrea
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Sgrò, Carmelo
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Smith, Brian T.
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Spandre, Gloria
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Tennant, Allyn F.
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TOBIA, ANTONINO
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TROIS, ALESSIO
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Vimercati, Marco
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Wedmnore, Jeffrey
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Weisskopf, Martin C.
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XIE, FEI
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Zanetti, Francesco
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Alexander, Cheryl
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Allen, D. Zachery
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AMICI, FABRIZIO
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ANTONELLI, Lucio Angelo
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Antoniak, Spencer
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BACHETTI, Matteo
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Bonino, Raffaella
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Borotto, Fabio
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Breeding, Shawn
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Bygott, H. Kyle
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Cardelli, Claudia
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Ceccanti, Marco
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CENTRONE, Mauro
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Ferrie, MacKenzie
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Forsyth, Brent
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Foster, Michele
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Gurnee, Eli
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Hibbard, Grant
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Johnson, Sandra R.
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Kelly, Erik
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Kilaru, Kiranmayee
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LA MONACA, Fabio
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Le Roy, Shelley
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Magazzu', Guido
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Marengo, Marco
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Marrocchesi, Alessandra
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MORBIDINI, Alfredo
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McCracken, Jeffrey
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McEachen, Michael
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Mereu, Paolo
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Mitchell, Scott
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Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
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Mosti, Federico
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Nigro, Michela
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NUTI, Alessio
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Oppedisano, Chiara
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Pacheco, Richard
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PAGGI, Alessandro
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Pavelitz, Steven D.
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Pentz, Cristina
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PIAZZOLLA, RAFFAELE
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Porter, Brad
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Profeti, Alessandro
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Ranganathan, Jaganathan
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RANKIN, John
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Root, Noah
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RUBINI, ALDA
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Ruswick, Stephanie
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Sanchez, Javier
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SCALISE, Emanuele
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Schindhelm, Sara
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Speegle, Chet O.
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Tamagawa, Toru
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Tardiola, Marcello
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Walden, Amy L.
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Weddendorf, Bruce
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Welch, David
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Head, Michael
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Gray, Stuart
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Mize, Rondal
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O'Dell, Stephen L.
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Schroeder, Christopher
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Thomas, Nicholas E.
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Bagget, Randy M.
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Dolan, David
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Ferrant, Kevin
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Footdale, Joseph
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Garelick, Benjamin
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Johnson, Samantha
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Seek, Timothy
Abstract
IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, is a NASA SMEX mission with an important contribution of ASI that will be launched with a Falcon 9 in 2021 and will reopen the window of X-ray polarimetry after more than 40 years. The payload features three identical telescopes each one hosting one light-weight X-ray mirror fabricated by MSFC and one detector unit with its in-orbit calibration system and the Gas Pixel Detector sensitive to imaging X-ray polarization fabricated by INAF/IAPS, INFN and OHB Italy. The focal length after boom deployment from ATK-Orbital is 4 m, while the spacecraft is being fabricated by Ball Aerospace. The sensitivity will be better than 5.5% in 300 ks for a 1E-11 erg/s/cm2 (half mCrab) in the energy band of 2-8 keV allowing for sensitive polarimetry of extended and point-like X-ray sources. The focal plane instrument is completed, calibrated and it is going to be delivered at MSFC. We will present the status of the mission at about one year from the launch.
Coverage
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
All editors
den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Nikzad, Shouleh;Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
Series
PROCEEDINGS OF SPIE
Volume
11444
Start page
1144462
Conferenece
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Conferenece place
Online Only, California, United States
Conferenece date
14-18 December, 2020
Issn Identifier
0277-786X
Ads BibCode
2020SPIE11444E..62S
Rights
open.access