A detailed description of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer emphasizing its unique capabilities.

The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA small explorer in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). Launched in 2021 December, IXPE uses new technology---developed in Italy for measuring the degree of polarization and the position angle--- and advances of X-ray optics technology developed in the United States---to provide 1-arc minute scale imaging polarimetry in the energy range 2-8 keV. This presentation describes the IXPE observatory and baseline two-year mission.

*The Imaging X ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a joint US and Italian mission. The US contribution is supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and led and managed by its Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC), with industry partner Ball Aerospace (contract NNM15AA18C). The Italian contribution is supported by the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, ASI) through contract ASI-OHBI-2017-12-I.0, agreements ASI-INAF-2017-12-H0 and ASI-INFN-2017.13-H0, and its Space Science Data Center (SSDC) with agreements ASI-INAF-2022-14-HH.0 and ASI-INFN 2021-43-HH.0, and by the Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF) and the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) in Italy. This research used data products provided by the IXPE Team (MSFC, SSDC, INAF, and INFN) and distributed with additional software tools by the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC), at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC).

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Bulletin of the American Physical Society

2023 APS April Meeting

Volume 68, Number 6

Minneapolis, Minnesota (Apr 15-18)Virtual (Apr 24-26); Time Zone: Central Time

Session C02: The establishment of a new field of research in X-ray astronomy with NASA's and the Italian Space Agency's successful Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission

Abstract: C02.00001 : A detailed description of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer emphasizing its unique capabilities.*

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