@Article{SoffittaBBBCFGHMPPRSSTWAAAABBBBBBBBBCCCCCCDDRCPSDEEFFFGGGGIJKKKLRLLLMMMMMMMMOPPPPPPRRRRRRRRSSSSSSSSTTTDAWZ:2013:XrImPo,
author = "Soffitta, P. and Barcons, X. and Bellazzini, R. and Braga,
Jo{\~a}o and Costa, E. and Fraser, G. W. and Gburek, S. and
Huovelin, J. and Matt, G. and Pearce, M. and Poutanen, J. and
Reglero, V. and Santangelo, A. and Sunyaev, R. A. and Tagliaferri,
G. and Weisskopf, M. and Aloisio, R. and Amato, E. and
Attin{\'a}, P. and Axelsson, M. and Baldini, L. and Basso, S. and
Bianchi, S. and Blasi, P. and Bregeon, J. and Brez, A. and
Bucciantini, N. and Burderi, L. and Burwitz, V. and Casella, P.
and Churazov, E. and Civitani, M. and Covino, S. and Curado da
Silva, R. M. and Cusumano, G. and Dadina, M. and D'Amico,
Fl{\'a}vio and Rosa, A. D. and Cosimo, S. D. and Persio, G. D.
and Salvo, T. D. and Dovciak, M. and Elsner, R. and Eyles, C. J.
and Fabian, A. C. and Fabiani, S. and Feng, H. and Giarrusso, S.
and Goosmann, R. W. and Grandi, P. and Grosso, N. and Israel, G.
and Jackson, M. and Kaaret, P. and Karas, V. and Kuss, M. and Lai,
D. and Rosa, G. L. and Larsson, J. and Larsson, S. and Latronico,
L. and Maggio, A. and Maia, J. and Marin, F. and Massai, M. M. and
Mineo, T. and Minuti, M. and Moretti, E. and Muleri, F. and
O'Dell, S. L. and Pareschi, G. and Peres, G. and Pesce, M. and
Petrucci, P. -O. and Pinchera, M. and Porquet, D. and Ramsey, B.
and Rea, N. and Reale, F. and Rodrigo, J. M. and R{\'o}zaDska, A.
and Rubini, A. and Rudawy, P. and Ryde, F. and Salvati, M. and
Santiago Junior, Valdivino Alexandre de and Sazonov, S. and
Sgr{\'o}, C. and Silver, E. and Spandre, G. and Spiga, D. and
Stella, L. and Tamagawa, T. and Tamborra, F. and Tavecchio, F. and
Dias, T. T. and Adelsberg, M. v. and Wu, K. and Zane, S.",
affiliation = "IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome, 00133, Italy and
Max-Planck-Institut fur extraterrestrische Physik, Garching,
85741, Germany and Panter X-ray test facility, Gautinger Str. 45,
Neuried, 82061, Germany and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas
Espaciais (INPE)} and IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100,
Rome, 00133, Italy and Departimento de F{\'{\i}}sica, Coimbra
Universidad Portugal, Coimbra, 3004-516, Portugal and
INAF/IASF-Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153, Palermo, 90146, Italy and
INAF/IASF-Bologna, via Gobetti 101, Bologna, 40129, Italy and
DiFC, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, via Archirafi 36,
Palermo, 90123, Italy and Astronomical Institute, Academy of
Sciences of the Czech Republic, Bocni II 1401, Prague, 14131,
Czech Republic; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, B152TT, United Kingdom and Department of
Engineering Physics and Center for Astrophysics, Tsinghua
University, Beijing, 100084, China and Institute of Astronomy,
University of Cambridge, Madingley Rd, Cambridge, CB3 0HA, United
Kingdom and Observatoire Astronomique de Strasbourg, 11 rue de
l'universit{\'e}, Strasbourg, 67000, France and Department of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242,
United States and Cornell University, Space Sciences Bldg.,
Ithaca, 14853, United States and INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di
Palermo, Piazza del Parlamento 1, Palermo, 90134, Italy and
Facultat de Ciencies, Barcelona, 08193, Spain and Facultat de
Ciencies, Barcelona, 08193, Spain and Institut de Planetologie et
d'Astrophysique de Grenoble (IPAG), UJF-Grenoble 1 /CNRS-INSU UMR
5274, Grenoble, 38041, France and Astronomical Institute, Academy
of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Bocni II 1401, Prague, 14131,
Czech Republic; School of Physics and Astronomy, University of
Birmingham, Birmingham, B152TT, United Kingdom and Institute of
Space Sciences, CSIC-IEEC and Cornell University, Space Sciences
Bldg., Ithaca, 14853, United States and DiFC, Universita degli
Studi di Palermo, via Archirafi 36, Palermo, 90123, Italy and
Facultat de Ciencies, Barcelona, 08193, Spain and Panter X-ray
test facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and
Panter X-ray test facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061,
Germany and Facultat de Ciencies, Barcelona, 08193, Spain and
Polish Academy of Sciences, Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical
Centre, Bartycka 18, Warsaw, 00-716, Poland and Astronomical
Institute, Wroclaw University, Kopernika 11, Wroclaw, 51-622,
Poland; Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Profsoyuznaya 84/32, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation and Moscow
Institute of Physics and Technology, Institutsky per. 9,
Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russian Federation and Department of Physics
and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, 52242, United States
and Cornell University, Space Sciences Bldg., Ithaca, 14853,
United States and Cornell University, Space Sciences Bldg.,
Ithaca, 14853, United States and Harvard-Smithsonian Center For
Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, 02138, United States
and RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan and Centre for
Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of Technology, 837
State Street, Atlanta, 30332, United States and {Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso
del Cavaliere 100, Rome, 00133, Italy and IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso del
Cavaliere 100, Rome, 00133, Italy and IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso del
Cavaliere 100, Rome, 00133, Italy and Instituto de F{\'{\i}}sica
de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Avenida de los Castros, s/n, Santander
Cantabria, 39005, Spain and INFN-Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3,
Pisa, 56127, Italy and INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo,
Piazza del Parlamento 1, Palermo, 90134, Italy and {} and Solar
Physics Division, Space Research Centre, Polish Academy of
Sciences, ul. Kopernika, Wroclaw, 51-622, Poland and IAPS/INAF,
Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome, 00133, Italy and Department of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Space Research
Centre, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom and RIKEN, 2-1
Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan and Department of Physics,
University of Helsinki, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00014, Finland and
Centre for Relativistic Astrophysics, Georgia Institute of
Technology, 837 State Street, Atlanta, 30332, United States and
Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Erik Palmenin aukio
1, 00014, Finland and Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology,
Institutsky per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 141700, Russian Federation and
Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Bocni II 1401, Prague, 14131, Czech Republic; School of Physics
and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B152TT,
United Kingdom and Dipartimento di F{\'{\i}}sica E. Amaldi,
Universita' degli Studi Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 84, Rome,
00146, Italy and INFN-Pisa, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, Pisa, 56127,
Italy and Panter X-ray test facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried,
82061, Germany and Department of Physics, KTH, Royal Institute of
Technology, Stockholm, Sweden and RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako,
351-0198, Japan and Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of
the Czech Republic, Bocni II 1401, Prague, 14131, Czech Republic;
School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham,
Birmingham, B152TT, United Kingdom and Astronomical Institute,
Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Bocni II 1401, Prague,
14131, Czech Republic; School of Physics and Astronomy, University
of Birmingham, Birmingham, B152TT, United Kingdom and Panter X-ray
test facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and The
Oskar Klein Centre for Cosmoparticle Physics AlbaNova University
Centre, Stockholm, Sweden and Harvard-Smithsonian Center For
Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, 02138, United States
and Department of Physics, University of Helsinki, Erik Palmenin
aukio 1, 00014, Finland and Institute of Space Sciences, CSIC-IEEC
and RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, 351-0198, Japan and Panter X-ray
test facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and
Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic,
Bocni II 1401, Prague, 14131, Czech Republic; School of Physics
and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, B152TT,
United Kingdom and IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, Rome,
00133, Italy and INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza
del Parlamento 1, Palermo, 90134, Italy and Cornell University,
Space Sciences Bldg., Ithaca, 14853, United States and Instituto
de F{\'{\i}}sica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Avenida de los Castros,
s/n, Santander Cantabria, 39005, Spain and Panter X-ray test
facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and
Department of Physics, Astronomy Division, University of Oulu, PO
Box 3000, Oulu, 90014, Finland and Panter X-ray test facility,
Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and Department of
Physics, University of Helsinki, Erik Palmenin aukio 1, 00014,
Finland and INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Palermo, Piazza del
Parlamento 1, Palermo, 90134, Italy and Instituto de Ciencias de
los Materiales, Universidad de Valencia, Astronomia i
Astrof{\'{\i}}sica, Dr Moliner 50, Burjassot, 46100, Spain and
Instituto de F{\'{\i}}sica de Cantabria (CSIC-UC), Avenida de
los Castros, s/n, Santander Cantabria, 39005, Spain and Institute
of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Madingley Rd, Cambridge,
CB3 0HA, United Kingdom and Iniversit{\"a}t T{\"u}bingen,
Institut f{\"u}r Astronomie und Astrophysik, Sand 1,
T{\"u}bingen, 72076, Germany and IAPS/INAF, Via Fosso del
Cavaliere 100, Rome, 00133, Italy and Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r
Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, Garching, 85748, Germany
and Astronomical Institute, Academy of Sciences of the Czech
Republic, Bocni II 1401, Prague, 14131, Czech Republic; School of
Physics and Astronomy, University of Birmingham, Birmingham,
B152TT, United Kingdom and Facultat de Ciencies, Barcelona, 08193,
Spain and {Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and
INAF/Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via E. Bianchi 46, Merate,
Lc, 23807, Italy; NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, 320 Sparkman
Drive NW, Huntsville, 35805-1912, United States and Panter X-ray
test facility, Gautinger Str. 45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and
Thales Alenia Space-Italia s.p.a., Strada Antica di Collegno 253,
Turin, 10146, Italy and Panter X-ray test facility, Gautinger Str.
45, Neuried, 82061, Germany and Cornell University, Space Sciences
Bldg., Ithaca, 14853, United States and Moscow Institute of
Physics and Technology, Institutsky per. 9, Dolgoprudny, 141700,
Russian Federation and Dipartimento di F{\'{\i}}sica,
Universita' di Pisa and INFN-Pisa, Largo Pontecorvo, Pisa, 3
56127, Italy and DiFC, Universita degli Studi di Palermo, via
Archirafi 36, Palermo, 90123, Italy and Cornell University, Space
Sciences Bldg., Ithaca, 14853, United States and
Harvard-Smithsonian Center For Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street,
Cambridge, 02138, United States and INAF/Osservatorio Astrofisico
di Arcetri, Largo Enrico Fermi, Florence, 50125, Italy and
Dipartimento di Fisica, Universit{\`a} di Cagliari, SP
Monserrato-Sestu km 0.7, Cagliari, 09042, Italy and Dipartimento
di Fisica, Universit{\`a} di Cagliari, SP Monserrato-Sestu km
0.7, Cagliari, 09042, Italy",
title = "XIPE: the X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer",
journal = "Experimental Astronomy",
year = "2013",
volume = "x",
pages = "1--45",
month = "August",
keywords = "astronomy, X-ray, polarimetry, astrophysics.",
abstract = "X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to
spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging,
allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to be
studied. X-ray polarimetry investigates the acceleration process,
for example, including those typical of magnetic reconnection in
solar flares, but also emission in the strong magnetic fields of
neutron stars and white dwarfs. It detects scattering in
asymmetric structures such as accretion disks and columns, and in
the so-called molecular torus and ionization cones. In addition,
it allows fundamental physics in regimes of gravity and of
magnetic field intensity not accessible to experiments on the
Earth to be probed. Finally, models that describe fundamental
interactions (e.g. quantum gravity and the extension of the
Standard Model) can be tested. We describe in this paper the X-ray
Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE), proposed in June 2012 to the
first ESA call for a small mission with a launch in 2017. The
proposal was, unfortunately, not selected. To be compliant with
this schedule, we designed the payload mostly with existing items.
The XIPE proposal takes advantage of the completed phase A of
POLARIX for an ASI small mission program that was cancelled, but
is different in many aspects: the detectors, the presence of a
solar flare polarimeter and photometer and the use of a light
platform derived by a mass production for a cluster of satellites.
XIPE is composed of two out of the three existing JET-X telescopes
with two Gas Pixel Detectors (GPD) filled with a He-DME mixture at
their focus. Two additional GPDs filled with a 3-bar Ar-DME
mixture always face the Sun to detect polarization from solar
flares. The Minimum Detectable Polarization of a 1 mCrab source
reaches 14 % in the 2-10 keV band in 105 s for pointed
observations, and 0.6 % for an X10 class solar flare in the 15-35
keV energy band. The imaging capability is 24 arcsec Half Energy
Width (HEW) in a Field of View of 14.7 arcmin × 14.7 arcmin. The
spectral resolution is 20 % at 6 keV and the time resolution is 8
¼s. The imaging capabilities of the JET-X optics and of the GPD
have been demonstrated by a recent calibration campaign at PANTER
X-ray test facility of the Max-Planck-Institut f{\"u}r
extraterrestrische Physik (MPE, Germany). XIPE takes advantage of
a low-earth equatorial orbit with Malindi as down-link station and
of a Mission Operation Center (MOC) at INPE (Brazil). The data
policy is organized with a Core Program that comprises three
months of Science Verification Phase and 25 % of net observing
time in the following 2 years. A competitive Guest Observer
program covers the remaining 75 % of the net observing time. ©
2013 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht.",
doi = "10.1007/s10686-013-9344-3",
url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-013-9344-3",
issn = "0922-6435",
label = "scopus 2013-11",
language = "en",
targetfile = "art%3A10.1007%2Fs10686-013-9344-3.pdf",
urlaccessdate = "11 maio 2024"
}