Performances of the gas pixel detector to a continuum and highly polarized x-ray beam

Alessia Tortosa; Sergio Fabiani; Paolo Soffitta; Fabio Muleri; Mario Cirillo; Riccardo Ferrazzoli; Alda Rubini; Antonio Tobia; Alessandro Trinca

doi:10.1117/12.2313741

6 July 2018 Performances of the gas pixel detector to a continuum and highly polarized x-ray beam

Alessia Tortosa, Sergio Fabiani, Paolo Soffitta, Fabio Muleri, Mario Cirillo, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Alda Rubini, Antonio Tobia, Alessandro Trinca

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Proceedings Volume 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 106995A (2018) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313741
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2018, Austin, Texas, United States

Abstract

We report on the first measure of the polarization of a laboratory source with a continuum energy spectrum, which simulates the effect of a real astrophysical source, carried out with a prototype of the Gas Pixel Detector (GPD). This detector is an X-ray polarimeter exploiting the photoelectric effect both to measure the polarization and to obtain the image of astrophysical sources. The gas pixel detector will be the focal plane detector on board the IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) mission selected by NASA in the framework of the Explorer program for a launch in 2021.

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Alessia Tortosa, Sergio Fabiani, Paolo Soffitta, Fabio Muleri, Mario Cirillo, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Alda Rubini, Antonio Tobia, and Alessandro Trinca "Performances of the gas pixel detector to a continuum and highly polarized x-ray beam", Proc. SPIE 10699, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2018: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 106995A (6 July 2018); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2313741

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