XIPE: The X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

Soffitta P, Bellazzini R, Bozzo E, Burwitz V, Castro-Tirado AJ, Costa E, Courvoisier T, Feng H, Gburek S, Goosmann R, Karas V, Matt G, Muleri F, Nandra K, Pearce M, Poutanen J, Reglero V, Sabau Maria D, Santangelo A, Tagliaferri G, Tenzer C, Vink J, Weisskopf MC, Zane S, Agudo I, Antonelli A, Attina P, Baldini L, Bykov A, Carpentiero R, Cavazzuti E, Churazov E, Del Monte E, De Martino D, Donnarumma I, Doroshenko V, Evangelista Y, Ferreira I, Gallo E, Grosso N, Kaaret P, Kuulkers E, Laranaga J, Latronico L, Lumb DH, Macian J, Malzac J, Marin F, Massaro E, Minuti M, Mundell C, Ness JU, Oosterbroek T, Paltani S, Pareschi G, Perna R, Petrucci PO, Pinazo HB, Pinchera M, Rodriguez JP, Roncadelli M, Santovincenzo A, Sazonov S, Sgro C, Spiga D, Svoboda J, Theobald C, Theodorou T, Turolla R, Wilhelmi De Ona E, Winter B, Akbar AM, Allan H, Aloisio R, Altamirano D, Amati L, Amato E, Angelakis E, Arezu J, Atteia JL, Axelsson M, Bachetti M, Ballo L, Balman S, Bandiera R, Barcons X, Basso S, Baykal A, Becker W, Behar E, Beheshtipour B, Belmont R, Berger E, Bernardini F, Bianchi S, Bisnovatyi-Kogan G, Blasi P, Blay P, Bodaghee A, Boer M, Boettcher M, Bogdanov S, Bombaci I, Bonino R, Braga J, Brandt W, Brez A, Bucciantini N, Burderi L, Caiazzo I, Campana R, Campana S, Capitanio F, Cappi M, Cardillo M, Casella P, Catmabacak O, Cenko B, Cerda-Duran P, Cerruti C, Chaty S, Chauvin M, Chen Y, Chenevez J, Chernyakova M, Cheung Teddy CC, Christodoulou D, Connell P, Corbet R, Coti Zelati F, Covino S, Cui W, Cusumano G, D'Ai A, D'Ammando F, Dadina M, Dai Z, De Rosa A, De Ruvo L, Degenaar N, Del Santo M, Del Zanna L, Dewangan G, Di Cosimo S, Di Lalla N, Di Persio G, Di Salvo T, Dias T, Done C, Dovciak M, Doyle G, Ducci L, Elsner R, Enoto T, Escada J, Esposito P, Eyles C, Fabiani S, Falanga M, Falocco S, Fan Y, Fender R, Feroci M, Ferrigno C, Forman W, Foschini L, Fragile C, Fuerst F, Fujita Y, Gasent-Blesa JL, Gelfand J, Gendre B, Ghirlanda G, Ghisellini G, Giroletti M, Goetz D, Gogus E, Gomez JL, Gonzalez D, Gonzalez-Riestra R, Gotthelf E, Gou L, Grandi P, Grinberg V, Grise F, Guidorzi C, Gurlebeck N, Guver T, Haggard D, Hardcastle M, Hartmann D, Haswell C, Heger A, Hernanz M, Heyl J, Ho L, Hoormann J, Horak J, Huovelin J, Huppenkothen D, Iaria R, Inam Sitki C, Ingram A, Israel G, Izzo L, Burgess M, Jackson M, Ji L, Ji L, Jiang J, Johannsen T, Jones C, Jorstad S, Kajava JJ, Kalamkar M, Kalemci E, Kallman T, Kamble A, Kislat F, Kiss M, Klochkov D, Koerding E, Kolehmainen M, Koljonen K, Komossa S, Kong A, Korpela S, Kowalinski M, Krawczynski H, Kreykenbohm I, Kuss M, Lai D, Lan M, Larsson J, Laycock S, Lazzati D, Leahy D, Li H, Li J, Li LX, Li T, Li Z, Linares M, Lister M, Liu H, Lodato G, Lohfink A, Longo F, Luna G, Lutovinov A, Mahmoodifar S, Maia J, Mainieri V, Maitra C, Maitra D, Majczyna A, Maldera S, Malyshev D, Manfreda A, Manousakis A, Manuel R, Margutti R, Marinucci A, Markoff S, Marscher A, Marshall H, Massaro F, McLaughlin M, Medina-Tanco G, Mehdipour M, Middleton M, Mignani R, Mimica P, Mineo T, Mingo B, Miniutti G, Mirac SM, Morlino G, Motlagh AV, Motta SE, Mushtukov A, Nagataki S, Nardini F, Nattila J, Navarro GJ, Negri B, Negro M, Nenonen S, Neustroev V, Nicastro F, Norton A, Nucita A, O'Brien P, O'Dell S, Odaka H, Olmi B, Omodei N, Orienti M, Orlandini M, Osborne J, Pacciani L, Paliya VS, Papadakis I, Papitto A, Paragi Z, Pascal P, Paul B, Pavan L, Pellizzoni A, Perinati E, Pesce-Rollins M, Piconcelli E, Pili AG, Pilia M, Pohl M, Ponti G, Porquet D, Possenti A, Postnov K, Prandoni I, Produit N, Puehlhofer G, Ramsey B, Razzano M, Rea N, Reig P, Reinsch K, Reiprich T, Reynolds M, Risaliti G, Roberts T, Rodriguez J, Rossi ME, Rosswog S, Rozanska A, Rubini A, Rudak B, Russell D, Ryde F, Sabatini S, Sala G, Salvati M, Sasaki M, Savolainen T, Saxton R, Scaringi S, Schawinski K, Schulz NS, Schwope A, Severgnini P, Sharon M, Shaw A, Shearer A, Shesheng X, Shih IC, Silva K, Silva R, Silver E, Smale A, Spada F, Spandre G, Stamerra A, Stappers B, Starrfield S, Stawarz L, Stergioulas N, Stevens A, Stiele H, Suleimanov V, Sunyaev R, Slowikowska A, Tamborra F, Tavecchio F, Taverna R, Tiengo A, Tolos L, Tombesi F, Tomsick J, Tong H, Torok G, Torres DF, Tortosa A, Tramacere A, Trimble V, Trinchieri G, Tsygankov S, Tuerler M, Turriziani S, Ursini F, Uttley P, Varniere P, Vincent F, Vurgun E, Wang C, Wang Z, Watts A, Wheeler JC, Wiersema K, Wijnands R, Wilms J, Wolter A, Wood K, Wu K, Wu X, Xiangyu W, Xie F, Xu R, Yan SP, Yang J, Yu W, Yuan F, Zajczyk A, Zanetti D, Zanin R, Zanni C, Zappacosta L, Zdziarski AA, Zech A, Zhang H, Zhang S, Zhang W, Zoghbi A (2016)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Conference contribution, Conference Contribution

Publication year: 2016

Publisher: SPIE

Book Volume: 9905

Article Number: 990515

ISBN: 9781510601895

DOI: 10.1117/12.2233046

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.

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Soffitta, P., Bellazzini, R., Bozzo, E., Burwitz, V., Castro-Tirado, A.J., Costa, E.,... Zoghbi, A. (2016). XIPE: The X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer. In Proceedings of the Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray. SPIE.

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Soffitta, P., et al. "XIPE: The X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer." Proceedings of the Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray SPIE, 2016.

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