The X-ray Polarization Probe mission concept
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
2019-07-25 v1
Abstract
The X-ray Polarization Probe (XPP) is a second generation X-ray polarimeter following up on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). The XPP will offer true broadband polarimetery over the wide 0.2-60 keV bandpass in addition to imaging polarimetry from 2-8 keV. The extended energy bandpass and improvements in sensitivity will enable the simultaneous measurement of the polarization of several emission components. These measurements will give qualitatively new information about how compact objects work, and will probe fundamental physics, i.e. strong-field quantum electrodynamics and strong gravity.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1907.10190,
title = {The X-ray Polarization Probe mission concept},
author = {Keith Jahoda and Henric Krawczynski and Fabian Kislat and Herman Marshall and Takashi Okajima and Ivan Agudo and Lorella Angelini and Matteo Bachetti and Luca Baldini and Matthew Baring and Wayne Baumgartner and Ronaldo Bellazzini and Stefano Bianchi and Niccolo Bucciantini and Ilaria Caiazzo and Fiamma Capitanio and Paolo Coppi and Enrico Costa and Alessandra De Rosa and Ettore Del Monte and Jason Dexter and Laura Di Gesu and Niccolo Di Lalla and Victor Doroshenko and Michal Dovciak and Riccardo Ferrazzoli and Felix Fuerst and Alan Garner and Pranab Ghosh and Denis Gonzalez-Caniulef and Victoria Grinberg and Shuichi Gunji and Dieter Hartman and Kiyoshi Hayashida and Jeremy Heyl and Joanne Hill and Adam Ingram and Wataru Buz Iwakiri and Svetlana Jorstad and Phil Kaaret and Timothy Kallman and Vladimir Karas and Ildar Khabibullin and Takao Kitaguchi and Jeff Kolodziejczak and Chryssa Kouveliotou and Yannis Liodakis and Thomas Maccarone and Alberto Manfreda and Frederic Marin and Andrea Marinucci and Craig Markwardt and Alan Marscher and Giorgio Matt and Mark McConnell and Jon Miller and Ikuyuki Mitsubishi and Tsunefumi Mizuno and Alexander Mushtukov and Stephen Ng and Michael Nowak and Steve O'Dell and Alessandro Papitto and Dheeraj Pasham and Mark Pearce and Lawrence Peirson and Matteo Perri and Melissa Pesce Rollins and Vahe Petrosian and Pierre-Olivier Petrucci and Maura Pilia and Andrea Possenti and Juri Poutanen and Chanda Prescod-Weinstein and Simonetta Puccetti and Tuomo Salmi and Kevin Shi and Paolo Soffita and Gloria Spandre and Jack Steiner and Tod Strohmayer and Valery Suleimanov and Jiri Svoboda and Jean Swank and Toru Tamagawa and Hiromitsu Takahashi and Roberto Taverna and John Tomsick and Alessio Trois and Sergey Tsygankov and Roberto Turolla and Jacco Vink and Joern Wilms and Kinwah Wu and Fei Xie and George Younes and Alessandra Zaino and Anna Zajczyk and Silvia Zane and Andrzej Zdziarski and Haocheng Zhang and Wenda Zhang and Ping Zhou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.10190},
year = {2019}
}
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submitted to Astrophysics Decadal Survey as a State of the Profession white paper