Martin C. Weisskopf,1 Luca Baldini,2 Ronaldo Bellazini,2 Alessandro Brez,2 Enrico Costa,3 Richard Dissly,4 Ronald F. Elsner,1 Sergio Fabiani,3 Giorgio Matt,5 Massimo Minuti,6 Fabio Muleri,3 Steve O'Dellhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-1868-8056,1 Michele Pinchera,6 Brian Ramsey,1 Alda Rubini,3 Carmelo Sgro',2 Paolo Soffitta,3 Gloria Spandre2
1NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr. (United States) 2Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy) 3INAF - Instituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (Italy) 4Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. (United States) 5Univ. degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy) 6Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy)
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We show that meaningful, highly sensitive x-ray polarimetry with imaging capability is possible with a small
mission tailored to the NASA Explorer program. Such a mission—derived from the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry
Explorer (IXPE) proposed to a previous NASA call—takes advantage of progress in light-weight x-ray optics
and in gas pixel detectors to achieve sensitive time-resolved, spectrometric, imaging polarimetry. We outline the
main characteristics and requirements of this mission and provide a realistic assessment of its scientific utility
for modeling point-like and extended x-ray sources and for studying physical processes (including questions of
fundamental physics).
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Martin C. Weisskopf, Luca Baldini, Ronaldo Bellazini, Alessandro Brez, Enrico Costa, Richard Dissly, Ronald F. Elsner, Sergio Fabiani, Giorgio Matt, Massimo Minuti, Fabio Muleri, Steve O'Dell, Michele Pinchera, Brian Ramsey, Alda Rubini, Carmelo Sgro', Paolo Soffitta, Gloria Spandre, "A small mission featuring an imaging x-ray polarimeter with high sensitivity," Proc. SPIE 8859, UV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Space Instrumentation for Astronomy XVIII, 885908 (26 September 2013); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024473