XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

XIPE, the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer, is a mission dedicated to X-ray Astronomy. At the time of writing XIPE is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4). It promises to reopen the polarimetry window in high energy Astrophysics after more than 4 decades thanks to a d...

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Main Authors: Grinberg, Victoria, Linares Alegret, Manuel, Marshall, Herman, Schulz, Norbert S.
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Format: Article
Published: SPIE 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/116402
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