A polarized view of the hot and violent universe

Paolo Soffitta; Niccolo’ Bucciantini; Eugene Churazov; Enrico Costa; Michal Dovciak; Hua Feng; Jeremy Heyl; Adam Ingram; Keith Jahoda; Philip Kaaret; Timothy Kallman; Vladimir Karas; Ildar Khabibullin; Henric Krawczynski; Julien Malzac; Frédéric Marin; Herman Marshall; Giorgio Matt; Fabio Muleri; Carole Mundell; Mark Pearce; Pierre Olivier Petrucci; Juri Poutanen; Roger Romani; Andrea Santangelo; Gianpiero Tagliaferri; Roberto Taverna; Roberto Turolla; Jacco Vink; Silvia Zane

doi:10.1007/s10686-021-09722-y

A polarized view of the hot and violent universe

Paolo Soffitta, Niccolo’ Bucciantini, Eugene Churazov, Enrico Costa, Michal Dovciak, Hua Feng, Jeremy Heyl, Adam Ingram, Keith Jahoda, Philip Kaaret, Timothy Kallman, Vladimir Karas, Ildar Khabibullin, Henric Krawczynski, Julien Malzac, Frédéric Marin, Herman Marshall, Giorgio Matt, Fabio Muleri, Carole MundellMark Pearce, Pierre Olivier Petrucci, Juri Poutanen, Roger Romani, Andrea Santangelo, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Roberto Taverna, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Silvia Zane

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Abstract

X-ray polarimetry has long been considered the ‘holy grail’ of X-ray astronomy. Fortunately, after a silence of more than 40 years, the field is now rejuvenating. In fact, an X-ray polarimeter onboard a Cube-sat nano-satellite has been recently successfully operated. IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, will be launched in 2021 while eXTP, containing a larger version of IXPE, is expected to be launched in 2027. Although at present it is difficult to predict the discoveries that, given their exploratory nature, IXPE and eXTP will obtain, the path for a follow-up mission can already be envisaged. In this paper we describe the scientific goals of such a follow-up mission, and present a medium-size mission profile that can accomplish this task.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1109-1141
Number of pages	33
Journal	Experimental Astronomy
Volume	51
Issue number	3
Early online date	10 May 2021
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09722-y
Publication status	Published - 30 Jun 2021

Keywords

Astrophysics
Polarimetry
X-rays

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Soffitta, P., Bucciantini, N., Churazov, E., Costa, E., Dovciak, M., Feng, H., Heyl, J., Ingram, A., Jahoda, K., Kaaret, P., Kallman, T., Karas, V., Khabibullin, I., Krawczynski, H., Malzac, J., Marin, F., Marshall, H., Matt, G., Muleri, F., ... Zane, S. (2021). A polarized view of the hot and violent universe. Experimental Astronomy, 51(3), 1109-1141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09722-y

Soffitta, P, Bucciantini, N, Churazov, E, Costa, E, Dovciak, M, Feng, H, Heyl, J, Ingram, A, Jahoda, K, Kaaret, P, Kallman, T, Karas, V, Khabibullin, I, Krawczynski, H, Malzac, J, Marin, F, Marshall, H, Matt, G, Muleri, F, Mundell, C, Pearce, M, Petrucci, PO, Poutanen, J, Romani, R, Santangelo, A, Tagliaferri, G, Taverna, R, Turolla, R, Vink, J & Zane, S 2021, 'A polarized view of the hot and violent universe', Experimental Astronomy, vol. 51, no. 3, pp. 1109-1141. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10686-021-09722-y

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