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dc.contributor.authorSoffitta, P.-
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Biswajit-
dc.contributor.author+250 Co-authors-
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-28T07:01:02Z-
dc.date.available2017-07-28T07:01:02Z-
dc.date.issued2016-09-
dc.identifier.citationProceedings of the SPIE Vol. 9905, p9905 page 15, 2016 , Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, Edited by TJan-Willem A. den Herder; Tadayuki Takahashi & Marshall Bautzen_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781510601895-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/6684-
dc.descriptionRestricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)en_US
dc.description.abstractXIPE, 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.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSPIE - The International Society for Optics and Photonicsen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://arxiv.org/abs/1309.6995en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://proceedings.spiedigitallibrary.org/proceeding.aspx?articleid=2569538en_US
dc.rights2016 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE)en_US
dc.titleXIPE: the X-ray imaging polarimetry exploreren_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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