The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) at last!

Paolo Soffitta; Luca Baldini; Wayne Baumgartner; Ronaldo Bellazzini; Stephen D. Bongiorno; Niccolò Bucciantini; Enrico Costa; Michal Dovčiak; Steven Ehlert; Philip E. Kaaret; Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak; Luca Latronico; Frédéric Marin; Alan P. Marscher; Herman L. Marshall; Giorgio Matt; Fabio Muleri; Stephen L. O’Dell; Juri Poutanen; Brian Ramsey; Roger W. Romani; Patrick Slane; Allyn F. Tennant; Roberto Turolla; Martin C. Weisskopf; Iván Agudo; Lucio Angelo Antonelli; Matteo Bachetti; Stefano Bianchi; Raffaella Bonino; Alessandro Brez; Fiamma Capitanio; Simone Castellano; Elisabetta Cavazzuti; Chiel Ting Chen; Stefano Ciprini; Alessandra De Rosa; Ettore Del Monte; Laura Di Gesu; Niccolò Di Lalla; Alessandro Di Marco; Immacolata Donnarumma; Victor Doroshenko; Teruaki Enoto; Yuri Evangelista; Sergio Fabiani; Riccardo Ferrazzoli; Javier A. Garcia; Shuichi Gunji; Kiyoshi Hayashida; Jeremy Heyl; Wataru Iwakiri; Svetlana G. Jorstad; Vladimir Karas; Fabian Kislat; Takao Kitaguchi; Henric Krawczynski; Fabio La Monaca; Ioannis Liodakis; Simone Maldera; Alberto Manfreda; Andrea Marinucci; Francesco Massaro; Ikuyuki Mitsuishi; Tsunefumi Mizuno; Michela Negro; C. Y. Ng; Nicola Omodei; Chiara Oppedisano; Alessandro Papitto; George G. Pavlov; Abel Lawrence Peirson; Matteo Perri; Melissa Pesce-Rollins; Pierre Olivier Petrucci; Maura Pilia; Andrea Possenti; Simonetta Puccetti; John Rankin; Ajay Ratheesh; Oliver J. Roberts; Carmelo Sgrò; Gloria Spandre; Douglas A. Swartz; Toru Tamagawa; Fabrizio Tavecchio; Roberto Taverna; Yuzuru Tawara; Nicholas E. Thomas; Francesco Tombesi; Alessio Trois; Sergey S. Tsygankov; Jacco Vink; Kinwah Wu; Fei Xie; Silvia Zane

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The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) at last!

Paolo Soffitta, Luca Baldini, Wayne Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Niccolò Bucciantini, Enrico Costa, Michal Dovčiak, Steven Ehlert, Philip E. Kaaret, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Luca Latronico, Frédéric Marin, Alan P. Marscher, Herman L. Marshall, Giorgio Matt, Fabio Muleri, Stephen L. O’Dell, Juri Poutanen, Brian RamseyRoger W. Romani, Patrick Slane, Allyn F. Tennant, Roberto Turolla, Martin C. Weisskopf, Iván Agudo, Lucio Angelo Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Stefano Bianchi, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chiel Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Laura Di Gesu, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alessandro Di Marco, Immacolata Donnarumma, Victor Doroshenko, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Javier A. Garcia, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Vladimir Karas, Fabian Kislat, Takao Kitaguchi, Henric Krawczynski, Fabio La Monaca, Ioannis Liodakis, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Andrea Marinucci, Francesco Massaro, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Michela Negro, C. Y. Ng, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George G. Pavlov, Abel Lawrence Peirson, Matteo Perri, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierre Olivier Petrucci, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Simonetta Puccetti, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver J. Roberts, Carmelo Sgrò, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Nicholas E. Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Jacco Vink, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie, Silvia Zane

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IXPE, the first observatory dedicated to imaging X-ray polarimetry, was launched on Dec 9, 2021 and is operating successfully. A partnership between NASA and the Italian Space Agencey (ASI) IXPE features three X-ray telescopes each comprised of a mirror module assembly with a polarization sensitive detector at its focus. An extending boom was deployed on orbit to provide the necessary 4 m focal length. A 3-axis-stabilized spacecraft provides power, attitude determination and control, and commanding. After one year of observation IXPE has measured statistically-significant polarization from almost all the classes of celestial sources that emit X-rays. In the following we describe the IXPE mission, reporting on its performance after 1.5 year of operations. We show the main astrophysical results which are outstanding for a SMEX mission.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII
Editors	Oswald H. Siegmund, Keri Hoadley
Publisher	SPIE
ISBN (Electronic)	9781510665705
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677296
State	Published - 2023
Event	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII 2023 - San Diego, United States Duration: Aug 20 2023 → Aug 22 2023

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Name	Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering
Volume	12678
ISSN (Print)	0277-786X
ISSN (Electronic)	1996-756X

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Conference	UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII 2023
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego
Period	8/20/23 → 8/22/23

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Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials
Condensed Matter Physics
Computer Science Applications
Applied Mathematics
Electrical and Electronic Engineering

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Soffitta, P., Baldini, L., Baumgartner, W., Bellazzini, R., Bongiorno, S. D., Bucciantini, N., Costa, E., Dovčiak, M., Ehlert, S., Kaaret, P. E., Kolodziejczak, J. J., Latronico, L., Marin, F., Marscher, A. P., Marshall, H. L., Matt, G., Muleri, F., O’Dell, S. L., Poutanen, J., ... Zane, S. (2023). The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) at last! In O. H. Siegmund, & K. Hoadley (Eds.), UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII Article 1267803 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12678). SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2677296

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The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) at last! / Soffitta, Paolo; Baldini, Luca; Baumgartner, Wayne et al.
UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XXIII. ed. / Oswald H. Siegmund; Keri Hoadley. SPIE, 2023. 1267803 (Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering; Vol. 12678).

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