The gas pixel detector as a solar X-ray polarimeter and imager
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2011-11-30 v1 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Abstract
The Sun is the nearest astrophysical source with a very intense emission in the X-ray band. The study of energetic events, such as solar flares, can help us to understand the behaviour of the magnetic field of our star. There are in the literature numerous studies published about polarization predictions, for a wide range of solar flares models involving the emission from thermal and/or non-thermal processes, but observations in the X-ray band have never been exhaustive. The gas pixel detector (GPD) was designed to achieve X-ray polarimetric measurements as well as X-ray images for far astrophysical sources. Here we present the possibility to employ this instrument for the observation of our Sun in the X-ray band.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1111.6391,
title = {The gas pixel detector as a solar X-ray polarimeter and imager},
author = {Sergio Fabiani and Enrico Costa and Ronaldo Bellazzini and Alessandro Brez and Sergio Di Cosimo and Francesco Lazzarotto and Fabio Muleri and Alda Rubini and Paolo Soffitta and Gloria Spandre},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.6391},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
J. Adv. Space Res. (2011)