Title: | Calibration of the IXPE Focal Plane X-Ray Polarimeters to Polarized Radiation |
Authors: | DI MARCO, Alessandro FABIANI, Sergio LA MONACA, Fabio MULERI, FABIO RANKIN, John SOFFITTA, PAOLO XIE, FEI AMICI, FABRIZIO ATTINA', Primo BACHETTI, Matteo Baldini, Luca Barbanera, Mattia Baumgartner, Wayne Bellazzini, Ronaldo Borotto, Fabio Brez, Alessandro BRIENZA, Daniele Caporale, Ciro Cardelli, Claudia Carpentiero, Rita Castellano, Simone Castronuovo, Marco Cavalli, Luca Cavazzuti, Elisabetta Ceccanti, Marco CENTRONE, Mauro Citraro, Saverio COSTA, ENRICO D'Alba, Elisa D'AMICO, Fabio DEL MONTE, Ettore DI COSIMO, SERGIO Di Lalla, Niccolò DI PERSIO, GIUSEPPE Donnarumma, Immacolata EVANGELISTA, YURI FERRAZZOLI, RICCARDO Latronico, Luca LEFEVRE, CARLO LOFFREDO, Pasqualino Lorenzi, Paolo Lucchesi, Leonardo Magazzù, Carlo Magazzù, Guido Maldera, Simone Manfreda, Alberto Mangraviti, Elio Marengo, Marco Matt, Giorgio Mereu, Paolo Minuti, Massimo MORBIDINI, Alfredo Mosti, Federico Nasimi, Hikmat Negri, Barbara NUTI, Alessio O'Dell, Stephen L. Orsini, Leonardo PERRI, Matteo Pesce-Rollins, Melissa PIAZZOLLA, RAFFAELE Pieraccini, Stefano PILIA, Maura Pinchera, Michele Profeti, Alessandro Puccetti, Simonetta Ramsey, Brian D. RATHEESH, AJAY RUBINI, ALDA SANTOLI, Francesco Sarra, Paolo SCALISE, Emanuele Sciortino, Andrea Sgrò, Carmelo Spandre, Gloria Tardiola, Marcello Tennant, Allyn F. TOBIA, ANTONINO TROIS, ALESSIO Vimercati, Marco Weisskopf, Martin C. Zanetti, Davide Zanetti, Francesco |
Issue Date: | 2022 |
Journal: | THE ASTRONOMICAL JOURNAL |
Number: | 164 |
Issue: | 3 |
First Page: | 103 |
Abstract: | The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer mission-in partnership with the Italian Space Agency-dedicated to X-ray polarimetry in the 2-8 keV energy band. The IXPE telescope comprises three grazing incidence mirror modules coupled to three detector units hosting each one a Gas Pixel Detector, a gas detector that allows measuring the polarization degree by using the photoelectric effect. A wide and accurate ground calibration was carried out on the IXPE Detector Units at INAF-IAPS, in Italy, where a dedicated facility was setup at this aim. In this paper, we present the results obtained from this calibration campaign to study the IXPE focal plane detector response to polarized radiation. In particular, we report on the modulation factor, which is the main parameter to estimate the sensitivity of a polarimeter. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/34855 |
URL: | https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/ac7719 https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/85136718979 |
ISSN: | 0004-6256 |
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-3881/ac7719 |
Bibcode ADS: | 2022AJ....164..103D |
Fulltext: | open |
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