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Probing the polarized emission from SMC X-1: the brightest X-ray pulsar observed by IXPE

Recent observations of X-ray pulsars (XRPs) performed by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) have made it possible to investigate the intricate details of these objects in a new way, thanks to the added value of X-ray polarimetry.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-20 Sofia V. Forsblom , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Juri Poutanen , Victor Doroshenko , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Herman L. Marshall , Alessandro Di Marco , Fabio La Monaca , Christian Malacaria , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Vladislav Loktev , Andrea Possenti , Valery F. Suleimanov , Roberto Taverna , Ivan Agudo , Lucio A. Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccolo Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Niccolo Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Michal Dovciak , Steven R. Ehlert , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Kiyoshi Hayashida , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Luca Latronico , Ioannis Liodakis , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Alan P. Marscher , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , Chi-Yung Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgro , Patrick Slane , Paolo Soffitta , Gloria Spandre , Douglas A. Swartz , Toru Tamagawa , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

eXTP -- enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry Mission

eXTP is a science mission designed to study the state of matter under extreme conditions of density, gravity and magnetism. Primary targets include isolated and binary neutron stars, strong magnetic field systems like magnetars, and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-17 S. N. Zhang , M. Feroci , A. Santangelo , Y. W. Dong , H. Feng , F. J. Lu , K. Nandra , Z. S. Wang , S. Zhang , E. Bozzo , S. Brandt , A. De Rosa , L. J. Gou , M. Hernanz , M. van der Klis , X. D. Li , Y. Liu , P. Orleanski , G. Pareschi , M. Pohl , J. Poutanen , J. L. Qu , S. Schanne , L. Stella , P. Uttley , A. Watts , R. X. Xu , W. F. Yu , J. J. M. in 't Zand , S. Zane , L. Alvarez , L. Amati , L. Baldini , C. Bambi , S. Basso , S. Bhattacharyya , R. Bellazzini , T. Belloni , P. Bellutti , S. Bianchi , A. Brez , M. Bursa , V. Burwitz , C. Budtz-Jorgensen , I. Caiazzo , R. Campana , X. L. Cao , P. Casella , C. Y. Chen , L. Chen , T. X. Chen , Y. Chen , Y. Chen , Y. P. Chen , M. Civitani , F. Coti Zelati , W. Cui , W. W. Cui , Z. G. Dai , E. Del Monte , D. De Martino , S. Di Cosimo , S. Diebold , M. Dovciak , I. Donnarumma , V. Doroshenko , P. Esposito , Y. Evangelista , Y. Favre , P. Friedrich , F. Fuschino , J. L. Galvez , Z. L. Gao , M. Y. Ge , O. Gevin , D. Goetz , D. W. Han , J. Heyl , J. Horak , W. Hu , F. Huang , Q. S. Huang , R. Hudec , D. Huppenkothen , G. L. Israel , A. Ingram , V. Karas , D. Karelin , P. A. Jenke , L. Ji , T. Kennedy , S. Korpela , D. Kunneriath , C. Labanti , G. Li , X. Li , Z. S. Li , E. W. Liang , O. Limousin , L. Lin , Z. X. Ling , H. B. Liu , H. W. Liu , Z. Liu , B. Lu , N. Lund , D. Lai , B. Luo , T. Luo , B. Ma , S. Mahmoodifar , M. Marisaldi , A. Martindale , N. Meidinger , Y. P. Men , M. Michalska , R. Mignani , M. Minuti , S. Motta , F. Muleri , J. Neilsen , M. Orlandini , A T. Pan , A. Patruno , E. Perinati , A. Picciotto , C. Piemonte , M. Pinchera , A. Rachevski , M. Rapisarda , N. Rea , E. M. R. Rossi , A. Rubini , G. Sala , X. W. Shu , C. Sgro , Z. X. Shen , P. Soffitta , L. M. Song , G. Spandre , G. Stratta , T. E. Strohmayer , L. Sun , J. Svoboda , G. Tagliaferri , C. Tenzer , H. Tong , R. Taverna , G. Torok , R. Turolla , A. Vacchi , J. Wang , J. X. Wang , D. Walton , K. Wang , J. F. Wang , R. J. Wang , Y. F. Wang , S. S. Weng , J. Wilms , B. Winter , X. Wu , X. F. Wu , S. L. Xiong , Y. P. Xu , Y. Q. Xue , Z. Yan , S. Yang , X. Yang , Y. J. Yang , F. Yuan , W. M. Yuan , Y. F. Yuan , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , A. Zdziarski , C. Zhang , C. L. Zhang , L. Zhang , X. Zhang , Z. Zhang , W. D. Zhang , S. J. Zheng , P. Zhou , X. L. Zhou

The First X-Ray Polarimetry of an Eclipsing Low-Mass X-Ray Binary: Serendipitous IXPE Observation of AX J1745.6-2901

We present the first X-ray polarimetric measurement of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary system AX J1745.6-2901 conducted by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) satellite. This transient source, located within $ \sim $1.5' of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-16 Romana Mikušincová , Lorenzo Marra , Hemanth Manikantan , Stefano Bianchi , Fiamma Capitanio , Sudip Chakraborty , Raul Ciancarella , Enrico Costa , Nicolas De Angelis , Melania Del Santo , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Vittoria E. Gianolli , Andrea Gnarini , Adam Ingram , Shifra Mandel , Guglielmo Mastroserio , Giorgio Matt , Kaya Mori , Fabio Muleri , Simone Pagliarella , Maxime Parra , P. O. Petrucci , Jakub Podgorný , Juri Poutanen , Swati Ravi , Paolo Soffitta , James F. Steiner , Antonella Tarana , Roberto Taverna , Francesco Ursini , Alexandra Veledina , Federico M. Vincentelli , Anastasiya Yilmaz , Barbara De Marco , Maitrayee Gupta , Vladislav Loktev , Thomas D. Russell , Jiří Svoboda , Francesco Tombesi , Shuo Zhang

Relativistic Astrophysics Explorer

The great success of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) has shown that X-ray timing is an excellent tool for the study of strong gravitational fields and the measurement of fundamental physical properties of black holes and neutron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 P. Kaaret

X-ray polarization observations of NGC 2110 with IXPE

X-ray polarimetric observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) is an excellent tool for probing the geometry and dynamics of X-ray emitting corona in active galactic nuclei (AGN). This work aims to investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 I. Pal , S. Marchesi , N. Torres-Albá , I. Cox , M. Ajello , A. Banerjee , R. Silver , A. Pizzetti , K. Imam

Exploring polarization and geometry in the X-ray pulsar 4U 1538-52

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) observations of accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) continue to provide novel insights into the physics and geometry of these sources. We present the first X-ray polarimetric study of the persistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-28 Vladislav Loktev , Sofia V. Forsblom , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Juri Poutanen , Alexander A. Mushtukov , Alessandro Di Marco , Jeremy Heyl , Ruth M. E. Kelly , Fabio La Monaca , Mason Ng , Swati Ravi , Alexander Salganik , Andrea Santangelo , Valery F. Suleimanov , Silvia Zane

The Large-Scale Polarization Explorer (LSPE)

The LSPE is a balloon-borne mission aimed at measuring the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) at large angular scales, and in particular to constrain the curl component of CMB polarization (B-modes) produced by tensor…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-02 The LSPE collaboration , S. Aiola , G. Amico , P. Battaglia , E. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , A. Boscaleri , F. Cavaliere , A. Coppolecchia , A. Cruciani , F. Cuttaia , A. D' Addabbo , G. D'Alessandro , S. De Gregori , F. Del Torto , M. De Petris , L. Fiorineschi , C. Franceschet , E. Franceschi , M. Gervasi , D. Goldie , A. Gregorio , V. Haynes , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , B. Maffei , D. Maino , S. Masi , A. Mennella , Ng Ming Wah , G. Morgante , F. Nati , L. Pagano , A. Passerini , O. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , S. Ricciardi , P. Rissone , G. Romeo , M. Salatino , M. Sandri , A. Schillaci , L. Stringhetti , A. Tartari , R. Tascone , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , F. Villa , G. Virone , S. Withington , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

X-ray Polarimetry as a Tool to Constrain Orbital Parameters in X-Ray Binaries

X-ray binary systems consist of a companion star and a compact object in close orbit. Thanks to their copious X-ray emission, these objects have been studied in detail using X-ray spectroscopy and timing. The inclination of these systems is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-29 John Rankin , Vadim Kravtsov , Fabio Muleri , Juri Poutanen , Frédéric Marin , Fiamma Capitanio , Giorgio Matt , Enrico Costa , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Fabio La Monaca , Lorenzo Marra , Paolo Soffitta

The large scale polarization explorer (LSPE) for CMB measurements: performance forecast

[Abridged] The measurement of the polarization of the Cosmic Microwave Background radiation is one of the current frontiers in cosmology. In particular, the detection of the primordial B-modes, could reveal the presence of gravitational…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-10 The LSPE collaboration , G. Addamo , P. A. R. Ade , C. Baccigalupi , A. M. Baldini , P. M. Battaglia , E. S. Battistelli , A. Baù , P. de Bernardis , M. Bersanelli , M. Biasotti , A. Boscaleri , B. Caccianiga , S. Caprioli , F. Cavaliere , F. Cei , K. A. Cleary , F. Columbro , G. Coppi , A. Coppolecchia , F. Cuttaia , G. D'Alessandro , G. De Gasperis , M. De Petris , V. Fafone , F. Farsian , L. Ferrari Barusso , F. Fontanelli , C. Franceschet , T. C. Gaier , L. Galli , F. Gatti , R. Genova-Santos , M. Gerbino , M. Gervasi , T. Ghigna , D. Grosso , A. Gruppuso , R. Gualtieri , F. Incardona , M. E. Jones , P. Kangaslahti , N. Krachmalnicoff , L. Lamagna , M. Lattanzi , C. H. López-Caraballo , M. Lumia , R. Mainini , D. Maino , S. Mandelli , M. Maris , S. Masi , S. Matarrese , A. May , L. Mele , P. Mena , A. Mennella , R. Molina , D. Molinari , G. Morgante , U. Natale , F. Nati , P. Natoli , L. Pagano , A. Paiella , F. Panico , F. Paonessa , S. Paradiso , A. Passerini , M. Perez-de-Taoro , O. A. Peverini , F. Piacentini , L. Piccirillo , G. Pisano , D. Poletti , G. Presta , S. Realini , N. Reyes , J. A. Rubino-Martin , M. Sandri , S. Sartor , F. Pezzotta , G. Polenta , A. Rocchi , A. Schillaci , G. Signorelli , B. Siri , M. Soria , F. Spinella , V. Tapia , A. Tartari , A. C. Taylor , L. Terenzi , M. Tomasi , E. Tommasi , C. Tucker , D. Vaccaro , D. M. Vigano , F. Villa , G. Virone , N. Vittorio , A. Volpe , R. E. J. Watkins , A. Zacchei , M. Zannoni

Fitting XMM-Newton Observations of the AXP 1RXS J170849.0-400910 with four magnetar surface emission models, and predictions for X-ray polarization observations with IXPE

Phase-resolved spectral and spectropolarimetric X-ray observations of magnetars present us with the opportunity to test models of the origin of the X-ray emission from these objects, and to constrain the properties of the neutron star…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Henric Krawczynski , Roberto Taverna , Roberto Turolla , Sandro Mereghetti , Michela Rigoselli

X-ray and multiwavelength polarization of Mrk 501 from 2022 to 2023

We present multiwavelength polarization measurements of the luminous blazar Mrk~501 over a 14-month period. The 2--8 keV X-ray polarization was measured with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) with six 100-ks observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-17 Chien-Ting J. Chen , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Dawoon E. Kim , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Steven R. Ehlert , Manel Errando , Michela Negro , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Alan P. Marscher , Kinwah Wu , Iván Agudo , Juri Poutanen , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , George A. Borman , Tatiana S. Grishina , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Ivan S. Troitsky , Yulia V. Troitskaya , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Juan Escudero , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Jorge Otero Santos , Alfredo Sota , Vilppu Piirola , Ioannis Myserlis , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Mark Gurwell , Garrett Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sang-Hyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Chanwoo Song , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Masato Kagitani , Vadim Kravtsov , Anagha P. Nitindala , Takeshi Sakanoi , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Carolina Casadio , Albrecht Sievers , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Raffaella Bonino , Alessandro Brez , Niccoló Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccoló Di Lalla , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , 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 , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Herman L. Marshall , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , C. -Y. 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 , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Oliver J. Roberts , Roger W. Romani , Carmelo Sgró , 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 , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane

Prospects for Detecting X-ray Polarization in Blazar Jets

X-ray polarization should provide new probes of magnetic field geometry and acceleration physics near the base of blazar jets, but near-future missions will have limited sensitivity. We thus use existing lower energy data and X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 I. Liodakis , A. L. Peirson , R. W. Romani

A photoelectric polarimeter for XEUS: a new window in x-ray sky

XEUS is a large area telescope aiming to rise X-ray Astronomy to the level of Optical Astronomy in terms of collecting areas. It will be based on two satellites, locked on a formation flight, one with the optics, one with the focal plane.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Ronaldo Bellazzini , Luca Baldini , Francesco Bitti , Alessandro Brez , Francesco Cavalca , Luca Latronico , Marco Maria Massai , Nicola Omodei , Michele Pinchera , Carmelo Sgro' , Gloria Spandre , Enrico Costa , Paolo Soffitta , Giuseppe Di Persio , Marco Feroci , Fabio Muleri , Luigi Pacciani , Alda Rubini , Ennio Morelli , Giorgio Matt , Giuseppe Cesare Perola

Solar Flare Hard X-ray Polarimetry with the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a CubeSat mission planned for a launch in low-Earth orbit and aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Nicolas De Angelis , Andrea Alimenti , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Riccardo Campana , Valerio Campamaggiore , Mauro Centrone , Enrico Costa , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giovanni De Cesare , Giulia de Iulis , Ettore Del Monte , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Sergio Fabiani , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Abhay Kumar , Alessandro Lacerenza , Paolo Leonetti , Pasqualino Loffredo , Giovanni Lombardi , Matteo Mergè , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Fabio Muleri , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Paolo Romano , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Paolo Soffitta , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

The Wide Field Monitor onboard the eXTP mission

The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing an extended phase A study and proposed for a launch by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Hernanz , S. Brandt , M. Feroci , P. Orleanski , A. Santangelo , S. Schanne , Xin Wu , J. in't Zand , S. N. Zhang , Y. P. Xu , E. Bozzo , Y. Evangelista , J. L. Gálvez , C. Tenzer , F. Zwart , F. J. Lu , S. Zhang , T. X. Chen , F. Ambrosino , A. Argan , E. Del Monte , C. Budtz-Jørgensen , N. Lund , P. Olsen , C. Mansanet , R. Campana , F. Fuschino , C. Labanti , A. Rachevski , A. Vacchi , G. Zampa , N. Zampa , I. Rashevskaya , P. Bellutti , G. Borghi , F. Ficorella , A. Picciotto , N. Zorzi , O. Limousin , A. Meuris

X-Ray Polarimetry with the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR)

This paper describes the Polarization Spectroscopic Telescope Array (PolSTAR), a mission proposed to NASA's 2014 Small Explorer (SMEX) announcement of opportunity. PolSTAR measures the linear polarization of 3-50 keV (requirement; goal:…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-06 Henric S. Krawczynski , Daniel Stern , Fiona A. Harrison , Fabian F. Kislat , Anna Zajczyk , Matthias Beilicke , Janie Hoormann , Qingzhen Guo , Ryan Endsley , Adam R. Ingram , Hiromasa Miyasaka , Kristin K. Madsen , Kim M. Aaron , Rashied Aminia , Matthew G. Baring , Banafsheh Beheshtipour , Arash Bodaghee , Jeffrey Booth , Chester Borden , Markus Boettcher , Finn E. Christensen , Paolo S. Coppi , Ramanath Cowsik , Shane Davis , Jason Dexter , Chris Done , Luis A. Dominguez , Don Ellison , Robin J. English , Andrew C. Fabian , Abe Falcone , Jeffrey A. Favretto , Rodrigo Fernandez , Paolo Giommi , Brian W. Grefenstette , Erin Kara , Chung H. Lee , Maxim Lyutikov , Thomas Maccarone , Hironori Matsumoto , Jonathan McKinney , Tatehiro Mihara , Jon M. Miller , Ramesh Narayan , Lorenzo Natalucci , Feryal Oezel , Michael J. Pivovaroff , Steven Pravdo , Dimitrios Psaltis , Takashi Okajima , Kenji Toma , William W. Zhang

The Large Area Detector onboard the eXTP mission

The eXTP (enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry) mission is a major project of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and China National Space Administration (CNSA) currently performing an extended phase A study and proposed for a launch by…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-31 Marco Feroci , Mahdi Ahangarianabhari , Giovanni Ambrosi , Filippo Ambrosino , Andrea Argan , Marco Barbera , Joerg Bayer , Pierluigi Bellutti , Bruna Bertucci , Giuseppe Bertuccio , Giacomo Borghi , Enrico Bozzo , Franck Cadoux , Riccardo Campana , Francesco Ceraudo , Tianxiang Chen , Daniela Cirrincione , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Di Cosimo , Sebastian Diebold , Yuri Evangelista , Qingmei Fan , Yannick Favre , Francesco Ficorella , Fabio Fuschino , Olivier Gevin , Marco Grassi , Bin Hong , Hanqi Mao , Vladimir Karas , Tom Kennedy , Claudio Labanti , Olivier Limousin , Ugo Lo Cicero , Fang-Jun Lu , Tao Luo , Piero Malcovati , Adrian Martindale , Aline Meuris , Malgorzata Michalska , Alfredo Morbidini , Fabio Muleri , Piotr Orleanski , Stephane Paltani , Teng Pan , Emanuele Perinati , Antonino Picciotto , Martin Pohl , Irina Rashevskaia , Andrea Santangelo , Stephane Schanne , Konrad Skup , Jiri Svoboda , Chris Tenzer , Andrea Vacchi , Dave Walton , Berend Winter , Xin Wu , Yupeng Xu , Ganluigi Zampa , Nicola Zampa , Silvia Zane , Andrzej Zdziarski , Long Zhang , Shu Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Wenda Zhang , Xiaoli Zhang , Yupeng Zhou , Nicola Zorzi

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

The Polstar UV Spectropolarimetry Mission

The Polstar small explorer concept is for an ultraviolet (UV) spectropolarimetry space telescope mission with a focus on massive star astrophysics. The instrument waveband will be from 115 nm - 286 nm for spectroscopy and 122 nm - 286 nm…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-26 Richard Ignace , Paul Scowen

XEUS - The X-ray Evolving Universe Spectroscopy Mission

XEUS is under study by ESA as part of the Horizon 2000+ program to utilize the International Space Station (ISS) for astronomical applications. XEUS will be a long-term X-ray observatory with an initial mirror area of 6m2 at 1 keV that will…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. N. Parmar , T. Peacock , M. Bavdaz , G. Hasinger , M. Arnaud , X. Barcons , D. Barret , A. Blanchard , H. Bohringer , M. Cappi , A. Comastri , T. Courvoisier , A. C. Fabian , R. Griffiths , P. Malaguti , K. O. Mason , T. Ohashi , F. Paerels , L. Piro , J. Schmitt , M. van der Klis , M. Ward