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X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging, allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to be studied. X-ray polarimetry investigates the acceleration…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2016-08-11
Paolo Soffitta , Xavier Barcons , Ronaldo Bellazzini , João Braga , Enrico Costa , George W. Fraser , Szymon Gburek , Juhani Huovelin , Giorgio Matt , Mark Pearce , Juri Poutanen , Victor Reglero , Andrea Santangelo , Rashid A. Sunyaev , Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Martin Weisskopf , Roberto Aloisio , Elena Amato , Primo Attiná , Magnus Axelsson , Luca Baldini , Stefano Basso , Stefano Bianchi , Pasquale Blasi , Johan Bregeon , Alessandro Brez , Niccoló Bucciantini , Luciano Burderi , Vadim Burwitz , Piergiorgio Casella , Eugene Churazov , Marta Civitani , Stefano Covino , Rui Miguel Curado da Silva , Giancarlo Cusumano , Mauro Dadina , Flavio D'Amico , Alessandra De Rosa , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Tiziana Di Salvo , Michal Dovciak , Ronald Elsner , Chris J. Eyles , Andrew C. Fabian , Sergio Fabiani , Hua Feng , Salvatore Giarrusso , René W. Goosmann , Paola Grandi , Nicolas Grosso , Gianluca Israel , Miranda Jackson , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Michael Kuss , Dong Lai , Giovanni La Rosa , Josefin Larsson , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Antonio Maggio , Jorge Maia , Frédéric Marin , Marco Maria Massai , Teresa Mineo , Massimo Minuti , Elena Moretti , Fabio Muleri , Stephen L. O'Dell , Giovanni Pareschi , Giovanni Peres , Melissa Pesce , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Michele Pinchera , Delphine Porquet , Brian Ramsey , Nanda Rea , Fabio Reale , Juana Maria Rodrigo , Agata Różańska , Alda Rubini , Pawel Rudawy , Felix Ryde , Marco Salvati , Valdivino Alexandre de Santiago Júnior , Sergey Sazonov , Carmelo Sgró , Eric Silver , Gloria Spandre , Daniele Spiga , Luigi Stella , Toru Tamagawa , Francesco Tamborra , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Teresa Teixeira Dias , Matthew van Adelsberg , Kinwah Wu , Silvia Zane
To determine if the recently launched Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) can follow the polarization variations induced by different particle acceleration mechanisms in blazars jets we simulate observations of a high synchrotron peak…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2022-06-29
L. Di Gesu , F. Tavecchio , I. Donnarumma , A. Marscher , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Landoni
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
Due to be launched in late 2021, the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer mission designed to perform polarization measurements in the 2-8 keV band, complemented with imaging, spectroscopy and timing…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2021-08-18
L. Baldini , M. Barbanera , R. Bellazzini , R. Bonino , F. Borotto , A. Brez , C. Caporale , C. Cardelli , S. Castellano , M. Ceccanti , S. Citraro , N. Di Lalla , L. Latronico , L. Lucchesi , C. Magazzù , G. Magazzù , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , M. Marengo , A. Marrocchesi , P. Mereu , M. Minuti , F. Mosti , H. Nasimi , A. Nuti , C. Oppedisano , L. Orsini , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pinchera , A. Profeti , C. Sgrò , G. Spandre , M. Tardiola , D. Zanetti , F. Amici , H. Andersson , P. Attinà , M. Bachetti , W. Baumgartner , D. Brienza , R. Carpentiero , M. Castronuovo , L. Cavalli , E. Cavazzuti , M. Centrone , E. Costa , E. D'Alba , F. D'Amico , E. Del Monte , S. Di Cosimo , A. Di Marco , G. Di Persio , I. Donnarumma , Y. Evangelista , S. Fabiani , R. Ferrazzoli , T. Kitaguchi , F. La Monaca , C. Lefevre , P. Loffredo , P. Lorenzi , E. Mangraviti , G. Matt , T. Meilahti , A. Morbidini , F. Muleri , T. Nakano , B. Negri , S. Nenonen , S. L. O'Dell , M. Perri , R. Piazzolla , S. Pieraccini , M. Pilia , S. Puccetti , B. D. Ramsey , J. Rankin , A. Ratheesh , A. Rubini , F. Santoli , P. Sarra , E. Scalise , A. Sciortino , P. Soffitta , T. Tamagawa , A. F. Tennant , A. Tobia , A. Trois , K. Uchiyama , M. Vimercati , M. C. Weisskopf , F. Xie , F. Zanetti , Y. Zhou
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is a NASA Small Explorer mission -- in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) -- dedicated to X-ray polarimetry in the 2--8 keV energy band. The IXPE telescope comprises three grazing…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-08-26
Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Fabio La Monaca , Fabio Muleri , John Rankin , Paolo Soffitta , Fei Xie , Fabrizio Amici , Primo attinà , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Mattia Barbanera , Wayne Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Fabio Borotto , Alessandro Brez , Daniele Brienza , Ciro Caporale , Claudia Cardelli , Rita Carpentiero , Simone Castellano , Marco Castronuovo , Luca Cavalli , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Marco Ceccanti , Mauro Centrone , Saverio Citraro , Enrico Costa , Elisa D'Alba , Fabio D'Amico , Ettore Del Monte , Sergio Di Cosimo , Niccolò Di Lalla , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Yuri Evangelista , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Luca Latronico , Carlo Lefevre , Pasqualino Loffredo , Paolo Lorenzi , Leonardo Lucchesi , Carlo Magazzù , Guido Magazzù , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Elio Mangraviti , Marco Marengo , Giorgio Matt , Paolo Mereu , Massimo Minuti , Alfredo Morbidini , Federico Mosti , Hikmat Nasimi , Barbara Negri , Alessio Nuti , Stephen L. O'Dell , Leonardo Orsini , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Raffaele Piazzolla , Stefano Pieraccini , Maura Pilia , Michele Pinchera , Alessandro Profeti , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Alda Rubini , Francesco Santoli , Paolo Sarra , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Sciortino , Carmelo Sgrò , Gloria Spandre , Marcello Tardiola , Allyn F. Tennant , Antonino Tobia , Alessio Trois , Marco Vimercati , Martin C. Weisskopf , Davide Zanetti , Francesco Zanetti
Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) are presumably ideal targets for polarization measurements, as their high magnetic field strength is expected to polarize the emission up to a polarization degree of ~80%. However, such expectations are being…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-07-12
Christian Malacaria , Jeremy Heyl , Victor Doroshenko , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Juri Poutanen , Sofia V. Forsblom , Fiamma Capitanio , Alessandro Di Marco , Yujia Du , Lorenzo Ducci , Fabio La Monaca , Alexander A. Lutovinov , Herman L. Marshall , Ilya A. Mereminskiy , Sergey V. Molkov , Mason Ng , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Andrea Santangelo , Andrey E. Shtykovsky , Valery F. Suleimanov , 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 , 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 , Wataru Iwakiri , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak1 , 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 , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , 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 , Roberto Taverna , 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
By measuring photoelectron tracks, the gas pixel detectors of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite provide estimates of the photon detection location and its electric vector position angle (EVPA). However, imperfections in…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2024-09-24
Jack T. Dinsmore , Roger W. Romani
We present X-ray polarimetry observations from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) of three low spectral peak and one intermediate spectral peak blazars, namely 3C 273, 3C 279, 3C 454.3, and S5 0716+714. For none of these objects…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2023-10-23
Herman L. Marshall , Ioannis Liodakis , Alan P. Marscher , Niccolo Di Lalla , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Dawoon E. Kim , Riccardo Middei , Michela Negro , Nicola Omodei , Abel L. Peirson , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Ivan Agudo , Giacomo Bonnoli , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Immacolata Donnarumma , Laura Di Gesu , Jenni Jormanainen , Henric Krawczynski , Elina Lindfors , Frederic Marin , Francesco Massaro , Luigi Pacciani , Juri Poutanen , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Pouya M. Kouch , Francisco Jose Aceituno , Maria I. Bernardos , Giacomo Bonnoli , Victor Casanova , Maya Garcia-Comas , Beatriz Agis-Gonzalez , Cesar Husillos , Alessandro Marchini , Alfredo Sota , Dmitry Blinov , Ioakeim G. Bourbah , Sebastian Kielhmann , Evangelos Kontopodis , Nikos Mandarakas , Stylianos Romanopoulos , Raphael Skalidis , Anna Vervelaki , George A. Borman , Evgenia N. Kopatskaya , Elena G. Larionova , Daria A. Morozova , Sergey S. Savchenko , Andrey A. Vasilyev , Alexey V. Zhovtan , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Joana Kramer , Ioannis Myserlis , Efthalia Trainou , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Joseph R. Masiero , Dimitri Mawet , Maxwell A. Millar-Blanchaer , Georgia V. Panopoulou , Samaporn Tinyanont , Andrei V. Berdyugin , Masato Kagitani , Vadim Kravtsov , Takeshi Sakanoi , 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 , Chen-Ting Chen , Stefano Ciprini , Enrico Costa , Alessandra De Rosa , Ettore Del Monte , Laura Di Gesu , Alessandro Di Marco , Immacolata Donnarumma , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovvciak , 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 , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frederic Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Fabio Muleri , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. ODell , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , 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 , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
We report the X-ray polarization properties of the high-synchrotron-peaked (HSP) blazar PKS 2155$-$304 based on observations with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). We observed the source between Oct 27 and Nov 7, 2023. We also…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-09-11
Pouya M. Kouch , Ioannis Liodakis , Riccardo Middei , Dawoon E. Kim , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Steven R. Ehlert , Laura Di Gesu , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Iván Agudo , Grzegorz M. Madejski , Roger W. Romani , Manel Errando , Elina Lindfors , Kari Nilsson , Ella Toppari , Stephen B. Potter , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Callum McCall , Helen E. Jermak , Iain A. Steele , Ioannis Myserlis , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Sincheol Kang , Sang-Sung Lee , Sang-Hyun Kim , Whee Yeon Cheong , Hyeon-Woo Jeong , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , Francisco José Aceituno , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Juan Escudero , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Daniel Morcuende , Jorge Otero-Santos , Alfredo Sota , Rumen Bachev , 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 , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , 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 , 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 , Francesco Massaro , Giorgio Matt , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , Michela Negro , 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 , 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 , Roberto Taverna , Yuzuru Tawara , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Kinwah Wu , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
IXPE is a Small Explorer mission that was launched at the end of 2021 to measure the polarization of X-ray emission from tens of astronomical sources. Its focal plane detectors are based on the Gas Pixel Detector, which measures the…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2022-03-25
Alessandro Di Marco , Enrico Costa , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Sergio Fabiani , Fabio La Monaca , John Rankin , Fei Xie , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Simone Castellano , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Stephen L. O'Dell , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Simonetta Puccetti , Brian D. Ramsey , Ajay Ratheesh , Carmelo Sgrò , Gloria Spandre , Allyn F. Tennant , Antonino Tobia , Alessio Trois , Martin C. Weisskopf
We report the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) polarimetric and simultaneous multiwavelength observations of the high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object 1ES 1959+650, performed in 2022 October and 2023 August. In 2022 October…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-03-28
Luigi Pacciani , Dawoon E. Kim , Riccardo Middei , Herman L. Marshall , Alan P. Marscher , Ioannis Liodakis , Iván Agudo , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Juri Poutanen , Manel Errando , Laura Di Gesu , Michela Negro , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Kinwah Wu , Chien-Ting Chen , Fabio Muleri , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Immacolata Donnarumma , Steven R. Ehlert , Francesco Massaro , Stephen L. O'Dell , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Giacomo Bonnoli , Pouya M. Kouch , Emmanouil Angelakis , Alexander Kraus , 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 , Alessandro Di Marco , Victor Doroshenko , Michal Dovčiak , Teruaki Enoto , Yuri Evangelista , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Javier A. Garcia , Shuichi Gunji , Jeremy Heyl , Wataru Iwakiri , Philip Kaaret , Vladimir Karas , Fabian Kislat , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Henric Krawczynski , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Giorgio Matt , Tsunefumi Mizuno , C. -Y. Ng , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , 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 , Roberto Taverna , Allyn F. Tennant , Nicholas E. Thomas , Francesco Tombesi , Alessio Trois , Sergey S. Tsygankov , Roberto Turolla , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
Fifty years after the very first sounding rocket measurement of cosmic X-ray polarization, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission has effectively opened a new window into the X-ray sky. Prior to launch of IXPE, an extensive…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2025-05-05
Brian Ramsey , Jeffery Kolodziejczak , Wayne Baumgartner , Nicholas Thomas , Stephen Bongiorno , Phillip Kaaret , Stephen O'Dell , Allyn Tennant , Martin C. Weisskopf , Sergio Fabiani , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa , Alessandro Di Marco , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , Fabio La Monaca , John Rankin , Ajay Ratheesh , Alessio Trois , Luca Baldini , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Luca Latronico , Leonardo Lucchesi , Alberto Manfreda , Massimo Minuti , Leonardo Orsini , Michele Pinchera , Carmelo Sgro , Gloria Spandre
Launched on December 9, 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is the first imaging polarimeter ever flown, providing sensitivity in the 2--8 keV range, and during the 2-year initial phase of the mission will sample tens of…
The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE), the first space-based polarimeter since 1978, offers a two order of magnitude improvement to the measurement of X-ray polarisation than its predecessor OSO-8, offering…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2025-07-22
Melissa Ewing , Adam Ingram , John Rankin , Fabio Muleri
We present a method for enhancing the sensitivity of X-ray telescopic observations with imaging polarimeters, with a focus on the gas pixel detectors (GPDs) to be flown on the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). Our analysis…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2020-12-02
A. L. Peirson , R. W. Romani , H. L. Marshall , J. F. Steiner , L. Baldini
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
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
X-rays are particularly suited to probe the physics of extreme objects. However, despite the enormous improvements of X-ray Astronomy in imaging, spectroscopy and timing, polarimetry remains largely unexplored. We propose the photoelectric…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2015-06-19
S. Fabiani , E. Costa , E. Del Monte , F. Muleri , P. Soffitta , A. Rubini , R. Bellazzini , A. Brez , L. de Ruvo , M. Minuti , M. Pinchera , C. Sgrò , G. Spandre , D. Spiga , G. Tagliaferri , G. Pareschi , S. Basso , O. Citterio , V. Burwitz , W. Burkert , B. Menz , G. Hartner
Observations of linear polarization in the 2-8 keV energy range with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) explore the magnetic field geometry and dynamics of the regions generating non-thermal radiation in relativistic jets of…
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics
2024-02-26
Manel Errando , Ioannis Liodakis , Alan P. Marscher , Herman L. Marshall , Riccardo Middei , Michela Negro , Abel Lawrence Peirson , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Pazit L. Rabinowitz , Iván Agudo , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Sergey S. Savchenko , Dmitry Blinov , Ioakeim G. Bourbah , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Evangelos Kontopodis , Nikos Mandarakas , Stylianos Romanopoulos , Raphael Skalidis , Anna Vervelaki , Francisco José Aceituno , Maria I. Bernardos , Giacomo Bonnoli , Víctor Casanova , Beatriz Agís-González , César Husillos , Alessandro Marchini , Alfredo Sota , Pouya M. Kouch , Elina Lindfors , Carolina Casadio , Juan Escudero , Ioannis Myserlis , Ryo Imazawa , Mahito Sasada , Yasushi Fukazawa , Koji S. Kawabata , Makoto Uemura , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Tatsuya Nakaoka , Hiroshi Akitaya , Mark Gurwell , Garrett K. Keating , Ramprasad Rao , Adam Ingram , Francesco Massaro , Lucio Angelo Antonelli , Raffaella Bonino , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Chien-Ting Chen , Nicolò Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Alessandra De Rosa , Laura Di Gesu , Federico Di Pierro , Immacolata Donnarumma , Steven R. Ehlert , Francesco Fenu , Ephraim Gau , Vladimir Karas , Dawoon E. Kim , Henric Krawczynski , Marco Laurenti , Lindsey Lisalda , Rubén López-Coto , Grzegorz Madejski , Frédéric Marin , Andrea Marinucci , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Fabio Muleri , Luigi Pacciani , Alessandro Paggi , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci , Nicole Rodriguez Cavero , Roger W. Romani , Fabrizio Tavecchio , Stefano Tugliani , Kinwah Wu , Matteo Bachetti , Luca Baldini , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Stefano Bianchi , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Alessandro Brez , Niccolò Bucciantini , Fiamma Capitanio , Simone Castellano , Enrico Costa , Ettore Del Monte , Niccolò Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , 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 , Fabian Kislat , Takao Kitaguchi , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Fabio La Monaca , Luca Latronico , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Giorgio Matt , C. -Y. Ng , Stephen L. O'Dell , Nicola Omodei , Chiara Oppedisano , Alessandro Papitto , George G. Pavlov , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Maura Pilia , Andrea Possenti , Juri Poutanen , 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 , Jacco Vink , Martin C. Weisskopf , Fei Xie , Silvia Zane
Scheduled to launch in late 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission will open a new window of investigation - imaging X-ray…
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics
2021-12-22
Martin C. Weisskopf , Paolo Soffitta , Luca Baldini , Brian D. Ramsey , Stephen L. O'Dell , Roger W. Romani , Giorgio Matt , William D. Deininger , Wayne H. Baumgartner , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Enrico Costa , Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak , Luca Latronico , Herman L. Marshall , Fabio Muleri , Stephen D. Bongiorno , Allyn Tennant , Niccolo Bucciantini , Michal Dovciak , Frederic Marin , Alan Marscher , Juri Poutanen , Pat Slane , Roberto Turolla , William Kalinowski , Alessandro Di Marco , Sergio Fabiani , Massimo Minuti , Fabio La Monaca , Michele Pinchera , John Rankin , Carmelo Sgro' , Alessio Trois , Fei Xie , Cheryl Alexander , D. Zachery Allen , Fabrizio Amici , Jason Andersen , Angelo Antonelli , Spencer Antoniak , Primo Attina' , Mattia Barbanera , Matteo Bachetti , Randy M. Baggett , Jeff Bladt , Alessandro Brez , Raffaella Bonino , Christopher Boree , Fabio Borotto , Shawn Breeding , Daniele Brienza , H. Kyle Bygott , Ciro Caporale , Claudia Cardelli , Rita Carpentiero , Simone Castellano , Marco Castronuovo , Luca Cavalli , Elisabetta Cavazzuti , Marco Ceccanti , Mauro Centrone , Saverio Citraro , Fabio D' Amico , Elisa D'Alba , Laura Di Gesu , Ettore Del Monte , Kurtis L. Dietz , Niccolo' Di Lalla , Giuseppe Di Persio , David Dolan , Immacolata Donnarumma , Yuri Evangelista , Kevin Ferrant , Riccardo Ferrazzoli , MacKenzie Ferrie , Joseph Footdale , Brent Forsyth , Michelle Foster , Benjamin Garelick , Shuichi Gunji , Eli Gurnee , Michael Head , Grant Hibbard , Samantha Johnson , Erik Kelly , Kiranmayee Kilaru , Carlo Lefevre , Shelley Le Roy , Pasqualino Loffredo , Paolo Lorenzi , Leonardo Lucchesi , Tyler Maddox , Guido Magazzu , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Elio Mangraviti , Marco Marengo , Alessandra Marrocchesi , Francesco Massaro , David Mauger , Jeffrey McCracken , Michael McEachen , Rondal Mize , Paolo Mereu , Scott Mitchell , Ikuyuki Mitsuishi , Alfredo Morbidini , Federico Mosti , Hikmat Nasimi , Barbara Negri , Michela Negro , Toan Nguyen , Isaac Nitschke , Alessio Nuti , Mitch Onizuka , Chiara Oppedisano , Leonardo Orsini , Darren Osborne , Richard Pacheco , Alessandro Paggi , Will Painter , Steven D. Pavelitz , Christina Pentz , Raffaele Piazzolla , Matteo Perri , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Colin Peterson , Maura Pilia , Alessandro Profeti , Simonetta Puccetti , Jaganathan Ranganathan , Ajay Ratheesh , Lee Reedy , Noah Root , Alda Rubini , Stephanie Ruswick , Javier Sanchez , Paolo Sarra , Francesco Santoli , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Sciortino , Christopher Schroeder , Tim Seek , Kalie Sosdian , Gloria Spandre , Chet O. Speegle , Toru Tamagawa , Marcello Tardiola , Antonino Tobia , Nicholas E. Thomas , Robert Valerie , Marco Vimercati , Amy L. Walden , Bruce Weddendorf , Jeffrey Wedmore , David Welch , Davide Zanetti , Francesco Zanetti