XIPE the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer
- Creators
- Soffitta, P.
- Fuerst, Felix
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.
Additional Information
© 2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). XIPE is developed thanks to the support of ASI(IT), CNSA (CN), DLR (DE), SNPR&D&i(ES), SNSB(SE), SRC-PAS(PL), SSO(CH), UKSA(UK).Attached Files
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Additional details
- Eprint ID
- 73546
- Resolver ID
- CaltechAUTHORS:20170119-101704120
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI)
- China National Space Administration
- Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR)
- Ministerio de Economía, Industria y Competitividad (MINECO)
- Swedish National Space Board (SNSB)
- Space Research Centre (Poland)
- Swiss Space Office (SSO)
- United Kingdom Space Agency (UKSA)
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2017-01-19Created from EPrint's datestamp field
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2021-11-11Created from EPrint's last_modified field
- Series Name
- Proceedings of SPIE
- Series Volume or Issue Number
- 9905