The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Technical Overview IV

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The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Technical Overview IV

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Ramsey, Brian D , Primo Attina , Baldini, Luca , Barbanera, Mattia , Baumgartner, Wayne H , Bellazzini, Ronaldo , Bladt, Jeff , Bongiorno, Stephen D , Brez, Alessandro , Castellano, Simone , Carpentiero, Rita , Castronuovo, Marco , Cavalli, Luca , Cavazzuti, Elisabetta , DAmico, Fabio , Citraro, Saverio , Costa, Enrico , Deininger, William D , D'Alba, Elisa , Ettore Del Monte , Dietz, Kurtis L , Niccolo Di Lalla , Alessandro Di Marco , DiPersio, Giuseppe , Donnarumma, Immacolata , Fabiani, Sergio , Ferrazzoli, Riccardo , Footdale, Joseph , Head, Michael , Houston, Janice , Kalinowski, William , Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J , Latronico, Luca , Lefevre, Carlo , Lorenzi, Paolo , Lucchesi, Leonardo , Maldera, Simone , Manfreda, Alberto , Mangraviti, Elio , Marshall, Herman L , Giorgio, Matt , Minuti, Massimo , Mize, Rondal , Muleri, Fabio , Nasimi, Hikmat , Negri, Barbara , Nuti, Alessio , O'Dell, Stephen L , Orsini, Leonardo , Osborne, Darren , Pentz, Christina , Pilia, Maura and Perri, Matteo

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Hampton: NASA/Langley Research Center

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SPIE Conference Proceedings, 2021

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Hampton: NASA/Langley Research Center

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Scheduled to launch in late 2021,the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a Small Explorer Mission designed to open up a new window of investigation --X-ray polarimetry. The IXPE observatory features 3 identical telescopes each consisting of a mirror module assembly with a polarization-sensitive imaging x-ray detector at its focus. An exten...