The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): technical overview II

Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
O'Dell, Stephen L.
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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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Cavazzuti, Elisabetta
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Citraro, Saverio
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Gurnee, Eli
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Hibbard, Grant
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Johnson, Sandra
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Kelly, Eric
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Kilaru, Kiranmayee
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Le Roy, Shelley
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Magazzu, Guido
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Marengo, Marco
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Pacheco, Richard
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Marrocchesi, Alessandra
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McCracken, Jeffery
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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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Negro, Michela
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Oppedisano, Chiara
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Pavelitz, Steven D.
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Pentz, Christina
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Piazzola, Raffaele
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Porter, Brad
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Profeti, Alessandro
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Ranganathan, Jaganathan
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Root, Noah
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Ruswick, Stephanie
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Sanchez, Javier
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Schindhelm, Sarah
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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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Deininger, William D.
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Welch, David
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Dietz, Kurtis L.
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Di Lalla, Niccolò
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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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Kaspi, Victoria M.
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Kelley, Anthony R.
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Kolodziejczak, Jeffrey J.
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Latronico, Luca
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Lucchesi, Leonardo
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Manfreda, Alberto
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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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Orsini, Leonardo
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Osborne, Darren
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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 D.
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Romani, Roger W.
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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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Wedmore, Jeffrey
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Weisskopf, Martin C.
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Zanetti, Francesco
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Alexander, Cheryl
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Allen, D. Zachery
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Antoniak, Spencer
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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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Caporale, Ciro
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Cardelli, Claudia
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Ceccanti, Marco
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Ferrie, MacKenzie
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Footdale, Joseph
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Forsyth, Brent
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Foster, Michelle
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Gunji, Shuichi
DOI
Description
IXPE is a NASA Astrophysics Small Explorers (SMEX) mission, managed by MSFC and overseen by the Explorers Program Office at GSFC. The Italian contribution to the IXPE mission is supported by the Italian Space Agency through agreement ASI-INAF n.2017-12-H.0 and ASI-INFN agreement n.2017-13-H.0. IXPE work at Ball Aerospace is funded by MSFC under contract NNM15AA18C.
Abstract
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) will add polarization to the properties (time, energy, and position) observed in x-ray astronomy. A NASA Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), IXPE will measure the 2-8-keV polarization of a few dozen sources during the first 2 years following its 2021 launch. The IXPE Observatory includes three identical x-ray telescopes, each comprising a 4-m-focal-length (grazingincidence) mirror module assembly (MMA) and a polarization-sensitive (imaging) detector unit (DU), separated by a deployable optical bench. The Observatory's Spacecraft provides typical subsystems (mechanical, structural, thermal, power, electrical, telecommunications, etc.), an attitude determination and control subsystem for 3-axis stabilized pointing, and a command and data handling subsystem communicating with the science instrument and the Spacecraft subsystems.
Coverage
UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI
All editors
Siegmund, Oswald H.
Series
Volume
11118
Start page
111180V
Conferenece
UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXI
Conferenece place
San Diego, California, United States
Conferenece date
11-15 August, 2019
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0277-786X
Ads BibCode
2019SPIE11118E..0VO
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