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气体像素探测器天体物理学中的X射线偏振测量

X-ray polarimetry in Astrophysics with the Gas Pixel Detector

F. Muleri, R. Bellazzini, A. Brez, E. Costa, F. Lazzarotto, M. Minuti, M. Pinchera, A. Rubini, P. Soffitta, G. Spandre

摘要:

最近由Pisa INFN与INAF的IASF-Roma合作开发并不断改进的气体像素探测器可以可视化低Z气体中由几keV的光电子产生的轨道。通过重建光电子的撞击点和原始方向,GPD可以测量X射线的线偏振,同时保留关于单个光子的吸收点、能量和时间的信息。应用于X射线天体物理学中,在掠入射望远镜的焦点上,它可以进行角分辨偏振测量,与传统的45度布拉格衍射和90度左右康普顿散射技术相比,灵敏度有很大提高。这一配置是POLARIX和HXMT这两项探路者飞行任务的基础,并被纳入了IXO的基线设计,IXO是美国航天局、欧空局和日本宇宙航空研究开发机构正在研究的超大型X射线望远镜。

英文摘要:

The Gas Pixel Detector, recently developed and continuously improved by Pisa INFN in collaboration with IASF-Roma of INAF, can visualize the tracks produced within a low Z gas by photoelectrons of few keV. By reconstructing the impact point and the original direction of the photoelectrons, the GPD can measure the linear polarization of X-rays, while preserving the information on the absorption point, the energy and the time of individual photons. Applied to X-ray Astrophysics, in the focus of grazing incidence telescopes, it can perform angular resolved polarimetry with a huge improvement of sensitivity, when compared with the conventional techniques of Bragg diffraction at 45 degrees and Compton scattering around 90 degrees. This configuration is the basis of POLARIX and HXMT, two pathfinder missions, and is included in the baseline design of IXO, the very large X-ray telescope under study by NASA, ESA and JAXA.

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