Conference proceeding
The X-ray Polarimeter Instrument on board the Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources (PRAXyS) Mission
SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2016: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, Vol.9905, pp.99051B-99051B-8
Proceedings of SPIE
01/01/2016
DOI: 10.1117/12.2233322
Abstract
The Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources (PRAXyS) is one of three Small Explorer (SMEX) missions selected by NASA for Phase A study. The PRAXyS observatory carries an X-ray Polarimeter Instrument (XPI) capable of measuring the linear polarization from a variety of high energy sources, including black holes, neutron stars, and supernova remnants. The XPI is comprised of two identical mirror-Time Projection Chamber (TPC) polarimeter telescopes with a system effective area of 124 cm(2) at 3 keV, capable of photon limited observations for sources as faint as 1 mCrab. The XPI is built with well-established technologies. This paper will describe the performance of the XPI flight mirror with the engineering test unit polarimeter.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The X-ray Polarimeter Instrument on board the Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources (PRAXyS) Mission
- Creators
- J. E. Hill - NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USAJ. K. Black - Rock Creek Scientific (United States)K. Jahoda - Goddard Space Flight CenterT. Tamagawa - Nitto RIKENW. Iwakiri - Nitto RIKENT. Kitaguchi - Hiroshima University of EconomicsM. Kubota - Nitto RIKENP. Kaaret - University of IowaR. McCurdy - University of IowaD. M. Miles - University of IowaT. Okajima - Goddard Space Flight CenterY. Soong - Goddard Space Flight CenterL. Olsen - Goddard Space Flight CenterL. Sparr - Goddard Space Flight CenterS. J. Mosely - Goddard Space Flight CenterD. Nolan - Goddard Space Flight Center
- Contributors
- JWA DenHerder (Editor)T Takahashi (Editor)M Bautz (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Conference proceeding
- Publication Details
- SPACE TELESCOPES AND INSTRUMENTATION 2016: ULTRAVIOLET TO GAMMA RAY, Vol.9905, pp.99051B-99051B-8
- Publisher
- Spie-Int Soc Optical Engineering
- Series
- Proceedings of SPIE
- DOI
- 10.1117/12.2233322
- ISSN
- 0277-786X
- eISSN
- 1996-756X
- Number of pages
- 8
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 01/01/2016
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984442209402771
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