Polarization Leakage and the IXPE Point-spread Function

Polarization Leakage and the IXPE Point-spread Function

By measuring photoelectron tracks, the gas pixel detectors of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer satellite provide estimates of the photon detection location and its electric vector position angle (EVPA). However, imperfections in reconstructing event positions blur the image, and EVPA-position...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jack T. Dinsmore, Roger W. Romani
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
Subjects:
Pulsar wind nebulae
X-ray astronomy
Polarimetry
Open source software
X-ray detectors
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2065

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https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2065

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