Outcomes of the IXPE instrument calibration

Sergio Fabiani; Fabio Muleri; Alessandro Di Marco; Fabio La Monaca; John Rankin; Paolo Soffitta; Fabrizio Amici; Primo Attina; Luca Baldini; Mattia Barbanera; Daniele Brienza; Simone Castellano; Saverio Citraro; Enrico Costa; Yuri Evangelista; Ettore Del Monte; Sergio Di Cosimo; Giuseppe Di Persio; Riccardo Ferrazzoli; Carlo Lefevre; Pasqualino Loffredo; Leonardo Lucchesi; Alberto Manfreda; Antonino Tobia; Alfredo Morbidini; Massimo Minuti; Hikmat Nasimi; Alessio Nuti; Raffaele Piazzolla; Leonardo Orsini; Ajay Ratheesh; Michele Pinchera; Alda Rubini; Francesco Santoli; Emanuele Scalise; Carmelo Sgrò; Alessio Trois; Fei Xie

doi:10.1117/12.2566998

12 January 2021 Outcomes of the IXPE instrument calibration

Sergio Fabiani, Fabio Muleri, Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, John Rankin, Paolo Soffitta, Fabrizio Amici, Primo Attina, Luca Baldini, Mattia Barbanera, Daniele Brienza, Simone Castellano, Saverio Citraro, Enrico Costa, Yuri Evangelista, Ettore Del Monte, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Di Persio, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Carlo Lefevre, Pasqualino Loffredo, Leonardo Lucchesi, Alberto Manfreda, Antonino Tobia, Alfredo Morbidini, Massimo Minuti, Hikmat Nasimi, Alessio Nuti, Raffaele Piazzolla, Leonardo Orsini, Ajay Ratheesh, Michele Pinchera, Alda Rubini, Francesco Santoli, Emanuele Scalise, Carmelo Sgrò, Alessio Trois, Fei Xie

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Proceedings Volume 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1144464 (2021) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566998
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IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is the next Nasa Small Explorer mission foreseen for the lunch in 2021. It is a partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). IXPE is devoted to X-ray polarimetry in the 2-8 keV energy band. The IXPE telescope comprises three grazing incidence mirror modules coupled to three detector units hosting each one a Gas Pixel Detector (GPD) polarimeter. The GPD exploits the photoelectric effect to measure the linear polarization of the X-ray emission from astrophysical sources. A wide and accurate on ground calibration was carried out on the IXPE detector units at INAF-IAPS in Italy. A dedicated facility was set-up to calibrate the detector units with polarized and unpolarised X-rays at different energies before Instrument integration.

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Sergio Fabiani, Fabio Muleri, Alessandro Di Marco, Fabio La Monaca, John Rankin, Paolo Soffitta, Fabrizio Amici, Primo Attina, Luca Baldini, Mattia Barbanera, Daniele Brienza, Simone Castellano, Saverio Citraro, Enrico Costa, Yuri Evangelista, Ettore Del Monte, Sergio Di Cosimo, Giuseppe Di Persio, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Carlo Lefevre, Pasqualino Loffredo, Leonardo Lucchesi, Alberto Manfreda, Antonino Tobia, Alfredo Morbidini, Massimo Minuti, Hikmat Nasimi, Alessio Nuti, Raffaele Piazzolla, Leonardo Orsini, Ajay Ratheesh, Michele Pinchera, Alda Rubini, Francesco Santoli, Emanuele Scalise, Carmelo Sgrò, Alessio Trois, and Fei Xie "Outcomes of the IXPE instrument calibration", Proc. SPIE 11444, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1144464 (12 January 2021); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2566998

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