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XIPE: The X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

  • P. Soffitta
  • , R. Bellazzini
  • , E. Bozzo
  • , V. Burwitz
  • , A. J. Castro-Tirado
  • , E. Costa
  • , T. Courvoisier
  • , H. Feng
  • , S. Gburek
  • , R. Goosmann
  • , V. Karas
  • , G. Matt
  • , F. Muleri
  • , K. Nandra
  • , M. Pearce
  • , J. Poutanen
  • , V. Reglero
  • , D. Sabau Maria
  • , A. Santangelo
  • , G. Tagliaferri
  • C. Tenzer, J. Vink, M. C. Weisskopf, S. Zane, I. Agudo, A. Antonelli, P. Attina, L. Baldini, A. Bykov, R. Carpentiero, E. Cavazzuti, E. Churazov, E. Del Monte, D. De Martino, I. Donnarumma, V. Doroshenko, Y. Evangelista, I. Ferreira, E. Gallo, N. Grosso, P. Kaaret, E. Kuulkers, J. Laranaga, L. Latronico, D. H. Lumb, J. Macian, J. Malzac, F. Marin, E. Massaro, M. Minuti, C. Mundell, J. U. Ness, T. Oosterbroek, S. Paltani, G. Pareschi, R. Perna, P. O. Petrucci, H. B. Pinazo, M. Pinchera, J. P. Rodriguez, M. Roncadelli, A. Santovincenzo, S. Sazonov, C. Sgro, D. Spiga, J. Svoboda, C. Theobald, T. Theodorou, R. Turolla, E. Wilhelmi De Ona, B. Winter, A. M. Akbar, H. Allan, R. Aloisio, D. Altamirano, L. Amati, E. Amato, E. Angelakis, J. Arezu, J. L. Atteia, M. Axelsson, M. Bachetti, L. Ballo, S. Balman, R. Bandiera, X. Barcons, S. Basso, A. Baykal, W. Becker, E. Behar, B. Beheshtipour, R. Belmont, E. Berger, F. Bernardini, S. Bianchi, G. Bisnovatyi-Kogan, P. Blasi, P. Blay, A. Bodaghee, M. Boer, M. Boettcher, S. Bogdanov, I. Bombaci, R. Bonino, J. Braga, W. Brandt, A. Brez, N. Bucciantini, L. Burderi, I. Caiazzo, R. Campana, S. Campana, F. Capitanio, M. Cappi, M. Cardillo, P. Casella, O. Catmabacak, B. Cenko, P. Cerda-Duran, C. Cerruti, S. Chaty, M. Chauvin, Y. Chen, J. Chenevez, M. Chernyakova, C. C. Cheung Teddy, D. Christodoulou, P. Connell, R. Corbet, F. Coti Zelati, S. Covino, W. Cui, G. Cusumano, A. D'Ai, F. D'Ammando, M. Dadina, Z. Dai, A. De Rosa, L. De Ruvo, N. Degenaar, M. Del Santo, L. Del Zanna, G. Dewangan, S. Di Cosimo, N. Di Lalla, G. Di Persio, T. Di Salvo, T. Dias, C. Done, M. Dovciak, G. Doyle, L. Ducci, R. Elsner, T. Enoto, J. Escada, P. Esposito, C. Eyles, S. Fabiani, M. Falanga, S. Falocco, Y. Fan, R. Fender, M. Feroci, C. Ferrigno, W. Forman, L. Foschini, C. Fragile, F. Fuerst, Y. Fujita, J. L. Gasent-Blesa, J. Gelfand, B. Gendre, G. Ghirlanda, G. Ghisellini, M. Giroletti, D. Goetz, E. Gogus, J. L. Gomez, D. Gonzalez, R. Gonzalez-Riestra, E. Gotthelf, L. Gou, P. Grandi, V. Grinberg, F. Grise, C. Guidorzi, N. Gurlebeck, T. Guver, D. Haggard, M. Hardcastle, D. Hartmann, C. Haswell, A. Heger, M. Hernanz, J. Heyl, L. Ho, J. Hoormann, J. Horak, J. Huovelin, D. Huppenkothen, R. Iaria, C. Inam Sitki, A. Ingram, G. Israel, L. Izzo, M. Burgess, M. Jackson, L. Ji, L. Ji, J. Jiang, T. Johannsen, C. Jones, S. Jorstad, J. J.E. Kajava, M. Kalamkar, E. Kalemci, T. Kallman, A. Kamble, F. Kislat, M. Kiss, D. Klochkov, E. Koerding, M. Kolehmainen, K. Koljonen, S. Komossa, A. Kong, S. Korpela, M. Kowalinski, H. Krawczynski, I. Kreykenbohm, M. Kuss, D. Lai, M. Lan, J. Larsson, S. Laycock, D. Lazzati, D. Leahy, H. Li, J. Li, L. X. Li, T. Li, Z. Li, M. Linares, M. Lister, H. Liu, G. Lodato, A. Lohfink, F. Longo, G. Luna, A. Lutovinov, S. Mahmoodifar, J. Maia, V. Mainieri, C. Maitra, D. Maitra, A. Majczyna, S. Maldera, D. Malyshev, A. Manfreda, A. Manousakis, R. Manuel, R. Margutti, A. Marinucci, S. Markoff, A. Marscher, H. Marshall, F. Massaro, M. McLaughlin, G. Medina-Tanco, M. Mehdipour, M. Middleton, R. Mignani, P. Mimica, T. Mineo, B. Mingo, G. Miniutti, S. M. Mirac, G. Morlino, A. V. Motlagh, S. E. Motta, A. Mushtukov, S. Nagataki, F. Nardini, J. Nattila, G. J. Navarro, B. Negri, M. Negro, S. Nenonen, V. Neustroev, F. Nicastro, A. Norton, A. Nucita, P. O'Brien, S. O'Dell, H. Odaka, B. Olmi, N. Omodei, M. Orienti, M. Orlandini, J. Osborne, L. Pacciani, V. S. Paliya, I. Papadakis, A. Papitto, Z. Paragi, P. Pascal, B. Paul, L. Pavan, A. Pellizzoni, E. Perinati, M. Pesce-Rollins, E. Piconcelli, A. G. Pili, M. Pilia, M. Pohl, G. Ponti, D. Porquet, A. Possenti, K. Postnov, I. Prandoni, N. Produit, G. Puehlhofer, B. Ramsey, M. Razzano, N. Rea, P. Reig, K. Reinsch, T. Reiprich, M. Reynolds, G. Risaliti, T. Roberts, J. Rodriguez, M. E. Rossi, S. Rosswog, A. Rozanska, A. Rubini, B. Rudak, D. Russell, F. Ryde, S. Sabatini, G. Sala, M. Salvati, M. Sasaki, T. Savolainen, R. Saxton, S. Scaringi, K. Schawinski, N. S. Schulz, A. Schwope, P. Severgnini, M. Sharon, A. Shaw, A. Shearer, X. Shesheng, I. C. Shih, K. Silva, R. Silva, E. Silver, A. Smale, F. Spada, G. Spandre, A. Stamerra, B. Stappers, S. Starrfield, L. Stawarz, N. Stergioulas, A. Stevens, H. Stiele, V. Suleimanov, R. Sunyaev, A. Slowikowska, F. Tamborra, F. Tavecchio, R. Taverna, A. Tiengo, L. Tolos, F. Tombesi, J. Tomsick, H. Tong, G. Torok, D. F. Torres, A. Tortosa, A. Tramacere, V. Trimble, G. Trinchieri, S. Tsygankov, M. Tuerler, S. Turriziani, F. Ursini, P. Uttley, P. Varniere, F. Vincent, E. Vurgun, C. Wang, Z. Wang, A. Watts, J. C. Wheeler, K. Wiersema, R. Wijnands, J. Wilms, A. Wolter, K. Wood, K. Wu, X. Wu, W. Xiangyu, F. Xie, R. Xu, S. P. Yan, J. Yang, W. Yu, F. Yuan, A. Zajczyk, D. Zanetti, R. Zanin, C. Zanni, L. Zappacosta, A. A. Zdziarski, A. Zech, H. Zhang, S. Zhang, S. Zhang, W. Zhang, A. Zoghbi
  • National Institute for Astrophysics
  • University of Pisa
  • University of Geneva
  • MPI fuer extraterrestrische Physik
  • Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC)
  • Tsinghua University
  • Space Research Centre
  • Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg
  • Czech Academy of Sciences
  • Roma Tre University
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • University of Turku
  • University of Valencia
  • Instituto Nacional de Tecnica Aeroespacial
  • University of Tübingen
  • University of Amsterdam
  • National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  • University College London
  • ASDC
  • Ioffe Physical Technical Institute
  • Italian Space Agency
  • Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics
  • ESA-ESTEC
  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
  • Michigan State University
  • National Institute for Nuclear Physics
  • Institute de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie
  • University of Rome La Sapienza
  • University of Bath
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  • Université Grenoble Alpes
  • Space Research Institute (IKI)
  • University of Padua
  • Autonomous University of Barcelona
  • Effat University
  • Technical University of Denmark
  • Osservatorio Astrofisico Di Arcetri, Florence
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  • Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
  • Buein Zahra Technical University
  • Middle East Technical University
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  • European Southern Observatory
  • Wheaton College
  • National Centre for Nuclear Research
  • Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center of the Polish Academy of Sciences
  • New York University
  • West Virginia University
  • Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
  • SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research
  • University of Leicester
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • RIKEN
  • Keele University
  • Oxford Instruments Group Plc
  • University of Salento
  • JAXA Institute of Space and Astronautical Science
  • University of Florence
  • Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology
  • University of Crete
  • Joint Institute for VLBI ERIC (JIVE)
  • Université de Toulouse
  • Raman Research Institute
  • Lomonosov Moscow State University
  • Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas
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  • Argelander-Institut fuer Astronomie
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  • Los Alamos National Laboratory Theoretical Division

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Abstract

XIPE, the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer, is a mission dedicated to X-ray Astronomy. At the time of writing XIPE is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4). It promises to reopen the polarimetry window in high energy Astrophysics after more than 4 decades thanks to a detector that efficiently exploits the photoelectric effect and to X-ray optics with large effective area. XIPE uniqueness is time-spectrally-spatially-resolved X-ray polarimetry as a breakthrough in high energy astrophysics and fundamental physics. Indeed the payload consists of three Gas Pixel Detectors at the focus of three X-ray optics with a total effective area larger than one XMM mirror but with a low weight. The payload is compatible with the fairing of the Vega launcher. XIPE is designed as an observatory for X-ray astronomers with 75 % of the time dedicated to a Guest Observer competitive program and it is organized as a consortium across Europe with main contributions from Italy, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom, Poland, Sweden.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016
Subtitle of host publicationUltraviolet to Gamma Ray
EditorsMarshall Bautz, Tadayuki Takahashi, Jan-Willem A. den Herder
PublisherSPIE
ISBN (Electronic)9781510601895
DOIs
StatePublished - 2016
EventSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray - Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Duration: Jun 26 2016Jul 1 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume9905
ISSN (Print)0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)1996-756X

Conference

ConferenceSpace Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityEdinburgh
Period06/26/1607/1/16

Keywords

  • Gas Pixel Detector
  • Polarimetry
  • X-ray Astronomy
  • X-ray optics

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