@InProceedings{SoffittaBragRazzZogh:2016:XIXrIm,
author = "Soffitta, P. and Braga, Jo{\~a}o and Razzano, M. and Zoghbi, A.",
affiliation = "{} and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)}",
title = "XIPE the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer",
booktitle = "Proceedings...",
year = "2016",
organization = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation",
keywords = "X-ray Astronomy, Polarimetry, X-ray optics, Gas Pixel Detector.",
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-spectrallyspatially-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.",
conference-year = "15-21 set.",
language = "en",
targetfile = "soffita_xipe.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "03 jun. 2024"
}