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Pre-Flight Calibration of PIXL for X-ray Fluorescence Elemental Quantification

The Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) is a rasterable focused-beam X-ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometer mounted on the arm of National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) Mars 2020 Perseverance rover. To ensure…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-02-05 Christopher M. Heirwegh , William Timothy Elam , Yang Liu , Anusheela Das , Christopher Hummel , Bret Naylor , Lawrence A. Wade , Abigail C. Allwood , Joel A. Hurowitz , Les G. Armstrong , Naomi Bacop , Lauren P. O'Neil , Kimberly P. Sinclair , Michael E. Sondheim , Robert W. Denise , Peter R. Lawson , Rogelio Rosas , Jonathan H. Kawamura , Mitchell H. Au , Amarit Kitiyakara , Marc C. Foote , Raul A. Romero , Mark S. Anderson , George R. Rossman , Benton C. Clark

Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter is a small-aperture refracting telescope located at the South Pole and is specifically designed to search for the possible signature of inflationary gravitational waves in the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-14 J. Cornelison , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , H. Boenish , E. Bullock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , M. Crumrine , A. Cukierman , E. Denison , M. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , S. Fliescher , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. A. Grayson , P. Grimes , G. Hall , M. Halpern , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , E. Karpel , S. Kefeli , S. A. Kernasovskiy , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , R. W. Ogburn , S. Palladino , N. Precup , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reintsema , S. Richter , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , R. Schwarz , C. D. Sheehy , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , G. P. Teply , K. L. Thompson , J. E. Tolan , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , C. L. Wong , W. L. K. Wu , E. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The soft X-ray spectrometer polarimeter SolpeX

We present a novel X-ray assembly of functionally related instrument blocks intended to measure solar flare and active region (AR) spectra from within the Russian instrument complex KORTES, to be mounted aboard the International Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-18 J. Sylwester , M. Stęślicki , J. Bąkała , S. Płocieniak , Ż. Szaforz , M. Kowaliński , D. Ścisłowski , P. Podgórski , T. Mrozek , J. Barylak , A. Makowski , M. Siarkowski , Z. Kordylewski , B. Sylwester , S. Kuzin , A. Kirichenko , A. Pertsov , S. Bogachev

In-flight performance of the IXPE telescopes

We present a comprehensive characterization of the on-orbit imaging performance of the three telescopes on board the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Each telescope comprises a Wolter-I mirror module assembly and a Gas Pixel…

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SWIPE: a bolometric polarimeter for the Large-Scale Polarization Explorer

The balloon-borne LSPE mission is optimized to measure the linear polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background at large angular scales. The Short Wavelength Instrument for the Polarization Explorer (SWIPE) is composed of 3 arrays of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 P. de Bernardis , S. Aiola , G. Amico , E. Battistelli , A. Coppolecchia , A. Cruciani , A. D' Addabbo , G. D' Alessandro , S. De Gregori , M. De Petris , D. Goldie , R. Gualtieri , V. Haynes , L. Lamagna , B. Maffei , S. Masi , F. Nati , M. Wah Ng , L. Pagano , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , G. Romeo , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , E. Tommasi , S. Withington

LSPE-STRIP on-sky calibration strategy using bright celestial sources

In this paper we describe the global on-sky calibration strategy of the LSPE-Strip instrument. Strip is a microwave telescope operating in the Q- and W-bands (central frequencies of 43 and 95 GHz respectively) from the Observatorio del…

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In-flight calibrations of IBIS/PICsIT

PICsIT (Pixellated Imaging CaeSium Iodide Telescope) is the high energy detector of the IBIS telescope on-board the INTEGRAL satellite. It consists of 4096 independent detection units, ~0.7 cm^2 in cross-section, operating in the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Malaguti , A. Bazzano , A. J. Bird , G. Di Cocco , L. Foschini , P. Laurent , A. Segreto , J. B. Stephen , P. Ubertini

Assembly and Test of the Gas Pixel Detector for X-ray Polarimetry

The gas pixel detector (GPD) dedicated for photoelectric X-ray polarimetry is selected as the focal plane detector for the ESA medium-class mission concept X-ray Imaging and Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE). Here we show the design, assembly,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-09 H. Li , H. Feng , F. Muleri , R. Bellazzini , M. Minuti , P. Soffitta , A. Brez , G. Spandre , M. Pinchera , C. Sgro , L. Baldini , R. She , E. Costa

A coherent polarimeter array for the Large Scale Polarization Explorer balloon experiment

We discuss the design and expected performance of STRIP (STRatospheric Italian Polarimeter), an array of coherent receivers designed to fly on board the LSPE (Large Scale Polarization Explorer) balloon experiment. The STRIP focal plane…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 M. Bersanelli , A. Mennella , G. Morgante , M. Zannoni , G. Addamo , A. Baschirotto , P. Battaglia , A. Baù , B. Cappellini , F. Cavaliere , F. Cuttaia , F. Del Torto , S. Donzelli , Z. Farooqui , M. Frailis , C. Franceschet , E. Franceschi , T. Gaier , S. Galeotta , M. Gervasi , A. Gregorio , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , C. Lawrence , G. Maggio , R. Mainini , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , B. Paroli , A. Passerini , O. A. Peverini , S. Poli , S. Ricciardi , M. Rossetti , M. Sandri , M. Seiffert , L. Stringhetti , A. Tartari , R. Tascone , D. Tavagnacco , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , F. Villa , G. Virone , A. Zacchei

The multi$-$physics analysis and design of CUSP, a two CubeSat constellation for Space Weather and Solar flares X-ray polarimetry

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project aims to develop a constellation of two CubeSats orbiting the Earth to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter on board…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Giovanni Lombardi , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Enrico Costa , Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Ilaria Baffo , Marco E. Biancolini , Sergio Bonomo , Daniele Brienza , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Gessica Contini , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Nicolas De Angelis , Giovanni De Cesare , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Alessandro Di Marco , Emanuele Di Meo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Paolo Leonetti , Alfredo Locarini , Pasqualino Loffredo , Andrea Lopez , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Silvia Natalucci , Andrea Negri , Massimo Perelli , Monia Rossi , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Terracciano , Paolo Tortora , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi

Improved Polarization Calibration of the BICEP3 CMB Polarimeter at the South Pole

The BICEP3 Polarimeter is a small aperture, refracting telescope, dedicated to the observation of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at 95GHz. It is designed to target degree angular scale polarization patterns, in particular the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-26 J. Cornelison , C. Vergès , P. A. R. Ade , Z. Ahmed , M. Amiri , D. Barkats , R. Basu Thakur , D. Beck , C. A. Bischoff , J. J. Bock , V. Buza , J. R. Cheshire , J. Connors , M. Crumrine , A. J. Cukierman , E. V. Denison , M. I. Dierickx , L. Duband , M. Eiben , S. Fatigoni , J. P. Filippini , C. Giannakopoulos , N. Goeckner-Wald , D. C. Goldfinger , J. Grayson , P. K. Grimes , G. Hall , G. Halal , M. Halpern , E. Hand , S. A. Harrison , S. Henderson , S. R. Hildebrandt , G. C. Hilton , J. Hubmayr , H. Hui , K. D. Irwin , J. Kang , K. S. Karkare , S. Kefeli , J. M. Kovac , C. L. Kuo , K. Lau , E. M. Leitch , A. Lennox , T. Liu , K. Look , K. G. Megerian , L. Minutolo , L. Moncelsi , Y. Nakato , T. Namikawa , H. T. Nguyen , R. O'Brient , S. Palladino , M. A. Petroff , T. Prouve , C. Pryke , B. Racine , C. D. Reinsema , M. Salatino , A. Schillaci , B. L. Schmitt , B. Singari , A. Soliman , T. St. Germaine , B. Steinbach , R. V. Sudiwala , K. L. Thompson , C. Tsai , C. Tucker , A. D. Turner , C. Umiltà , A. G. Vieregg , A. Wandui , A. C. Weber , D. V. Wiebe , J. Willmert , W. L. K. Wu , H. Yang , K. W. Yoon , E. Young , C. Yu , L. Zeng , C. Zhang , S. Zhang

The WALOP-North Instrument I: Optical Design, Filter Design, Calibration

The Wide Area Linear Optical Polarimeter North (WALOP-North) is an optical polarimeter designed for the needs of the PASIPHAE survey. It will be installed on the 1.3m telescope at the Skinakas Observatory in Crete, Greece. After…

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IXPE Observation of the Low-Synchrotron Peaked Blazar S4 0954+65 During An Optical-X-ray Flare

The X-ray polarization observations made possible with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) offer new ways of probing high-energy emission processes in astrophysical jets from blazars. Here we report on the first X-ray polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 Pouya M. Kouch , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Fenu , Haocheng Zhang , Stella Boula , Riccardo Middei , Laura Di Gesu , Georgios F. Paraschos , Iván Agudo , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Elina Lindfors , Alan P. Marscher , Henric Krawczynski , Michela Negro , Kun Hu , Dawoon E. Kim , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Manel Errando , Dmitry Blinov , Anastasia Gourni , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Angelos Kourtidis , Nikos Mandarakas , Nikolaos Triantafyllou , Anna Vervelaki , George A. Borman , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Ivan S. Troitskiy , Tatiana S. Grishina , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Juan Escudero , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Jorge Otero-Santos , Vilppu Piirola , Alfredo Sota , Ioannis Myserlis , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Carmelo Sgrò , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Roger W. Romani , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

Polarisation Leakage due to Errors in Track Reconstruction in Gas Pixel Detectors

X-ray polarimetry, based on Gas Pixel Detectors (GPDs), have reached a high level of maturity with the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) leading to the first ever spatially resolved polarimetric measures. However, being this a new…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 N. Bucciantini , N. Di Lalla , R. W. R. Romani , S. Silvestri , M. Negro , L. Baldini , A. F. Tennant , A. Manfreda

Planck 2015 results. VIII. High Frequency Instrument data processing: Calibration and maps

This paper describes the processing applied to the Planck High Frequency Instrument (HFI) cleaned, time-ordered information to produce photometrically calibrated maps in temperature and (for the first time) in polarization. The data from…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Planck Collaboration , R. Adam , P. A. R. Ade , N. Aghanim , M. Arnaud , M. Ashdown , J. Aumont , C. Baccigalupi , A. J. Banday , R. B. Barreiro , N. Bartolo , E. Battaner , K. Benabed , A. Benoît , A. Benoit-Lévy , J. -P. Bernard , M. Bersanelli , B. Bertincourt , P. Bielewicz , J. J. Bock , L. Bonavera , J. R. Bond , J. Borrill , F. R. Bouchet , F. Boulanger , M. Bucher , C. Burigana , E. Calabrese , J. -F. Cardoso , A. Catalano , A. Challinor , A. Chamballu , H. C. Chiang , P. R. Christensen , D. L. Clements , S. Colombi , L. P. L. Colombo , C. Combet , F. Couchot , A. Coulais , B. P. Crill , A. Curto , F. Cuttaia , L. Danese , R. D. Davies , R. J. Davis , P. de Bernardis , A. de Rosa , G. de Zotti , J. Delabrouille , J. -M. Delouis , F. -X. Désert , J. M. Diego , H. Dole , S. Donzelli , O. Doré , M. Douspis , A. Ducout , X. Dupac , G. Efstathiou , F. Elsner , T. A. Enßlin , H. K. Eriksen , E. Falgarone , J. Fergusson , F. Finelli , O. Forni , M. Frailis , A. A. Fraisse , E. Franceschi , A. Frejsel , S. Galeotta , S. Galli , K. Ganga , T. Ghosh , M. Giard , Y. Giraud-Héraud , E. Gjerløw , J. González-Nuevo , K. M. Górski , S. Gratton , A. Gruppuso , J. E. Gudmundsson , F. K. Hansen , D. Hanson , D. L. Harrison , S. Henrot-Versillé , D. Herranz , S. R. Hildebrandt , E. Hivon , M. Hobson , W. A. Holmes , A. Hornstrup , W. Hovest , K. M. Huffenberger , G. Hurier , A. H. Jaffe , T. R. Jaffe , W. C. Jones , M. Juvela , E. Keihänen , R. Keskitalo , T. S. Kisner , R. Kneissl , J. Knoche , M. Kunz , H. Kurki-Suonio , G. Lagache , J. -M. Lamarre , A. Lasenby , M. Lattanzi , C. R. Lawrence , M. Le Jeune , J. P. Leahy , E. Lellouch , R. Leonardi , J. Lesgourgues , F. Levrier , M. Liguori , P. B. Lilje , M. Linden-Vørnle , M. López-Caniego , P. M. Lubin , J. F. Macías-Pérez , G. Maggio , D. Maino , N. Mandolesi , A. Mangilli , M. Maris , P. G. Martin , E. Martínez-González , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , P. McGehee , A. Melchiorri , L. Mendes , A. Mennella , M. Migliaccio , S. Mitra , M. -A. Miville-Deschênes , A. Moneti , L. Montier , R. Moreno , G. Morgante , D. Mortlock , A. Moss , S. Mottet , D. Munshi , J. A. Murphy , P. Naselsky , F. Nati , P. Natoli , C. B. Netterfield , H. U. Nørgaard-Nielsen , F. Noviello , D. Novikov , I. Novikov , C. A. Oxborrow , F. Paci , L. Pagano , F. Pajot , D. Paoletti , F. Pasian , G. Patanchon , T. J. Pearson , O. Perdereau , L. Perotto , F. Perrotta , V. Pettorino , F. Piacentini , M. Piat , E. Pierpaoli , D. Pietrobon , S. Plaszczynski , E. Pointecouteau , G. Polenta , G. W. Pratt , G. Prézeau , S. Prunet , J. -L. Puget , J. P. Rachen , M. Reinecke , M. Remazeilles , C. Renault , A. Renzi , I. Ristorcelli , G. Rocha , C. Rosset , M. Rossetti , G. Roudier , B. Rusholme , M. Sandri , D. Santos , A. Sauvé , M. Savelainen , G. Savini , D. Scott , M. D. Seiffert , E. P. S. Shellard , L. D. Spencer , V. Stolyarov , R. Stompor , R. Sudiwala , D. Sutton , A. -S. Suur-Uski , J. -F. Sygnet , J. A. Tauber , L. Terenzi , L. Toffolatti , M. Tomasi , M. Tristram , M. Tucci , J. Tuovinen , L. Valenziano , J. Valiviita , B. Van Tent , L. Vibert , P. Vielva , F. Villa , L. A. Wade , B. D. Wandelt , R. Watson , I. K. Wehus , D. Yvon , A. Zacchei , A. Zonca

A Study of background for IXPE

Focal plane X-ray polarimetry is intended for relatively bright sources with a negligible impact of background. However this might not be always possible for IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) when observing faint extended sources…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-23 Fei Xie , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Paolo Soffitta , Sergio Fabiani , Enrico Costa , Fabio Muleri , Alessandro Di Marco

Polarimetric calibration of large mirrors

Aims: To propose a method for the polarimetric calibration of large astronomical mirrors that does not require use of special optical devices nor knowledge of the exact polarization properties of the calibration target. Methods: We study…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-11 A. Lopez Ariste

An X-ray Polarimeter for Constellation-X

Polarimetry remains a largely unexploited technique in observational X-ray astronomy which could provide insight in the study of the strong gravity and magnetic fields at the core of the Constellation-X observational program. Adding a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Jahoda , K. Black , P. Deines-Jones , J. E. Hill , T. Kallman , T. Strohmayer , J. H. Swank

Optimization of the final settings for the Space-borne Hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter POLAR

POLAR is a compact wide field space-borne detector dedicated for precise measurements of the linear polarization of hard X-rays emitted by transient sources in the energy range from 50 keV to 500 keV. It consists of 1600 plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-08-13 Hualin Xiao , Wojtek Hajdas , Radaslow Marcinkowski

Calibration of mixed-polarization interferometric observations

Heterodyne receivers register the sky signal on either a circular polarization basis (where it is split into left-hand and right-hand circular polarization) or a linear polarization basis (where it is split into horizontal and vertical…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-09 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Alan Roy , John Conway , Anton J. Zensus