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"XL-Calibur", the Next-Generation Balloon-Borne Hard X-ray Polarimeter
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- Abarr, Quincy (author)
- Washington Univ, 1 Brookings Dr,CB 1105, St Louis, MO 63130 USA.
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- Iyer, Nirmal (author)
- KTH,Partikel- och astropartikelfysik
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- Kiss, Mózsi (author)
- KTH,Partikel- och astropartikelfysik
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- Maeda, Yoshitomo (author)
- ISAS, 3-1-1 Yoshinodai, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298510, Japan.
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- Pearce, Mark, 1970- (author)
- KTH,Partikel- och astropartikelfysik
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- Ryde, Felix, 1970- (author)
- KTH,Partikel- och astropartikelfysik
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- Stana, Theodor-Adrian (author)
- KTH,Partikel- och astropartikelfysik
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- Yoshida, Yuto (author)
- Tokyo Univ Sci, Dept Phys, Chiba 2788510, Japan.
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Washington Univ, 1 Brookings Dr,CB 1105, St Louis, MO 63130 USA Partikel- och astropartikelfysik (creator_code:org_t)
- SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng, 2021
- 2021
- English.
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In: Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020. - : SPIE-Intl Soc Optical Eng.
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- This paper introduces a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission, XL-Calibur.(1) The XL-Calibur will follow up on the X-Calibur mission which was flown from Dec. 29, 2018 for a 2.5 days balloon flight from McMurdo (the Antarctic). X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as pulsars and binary black hole systems. The XL-Calibur contains a grazing incidence X-ray telescope with a focal plane detector unit that is sensitive to linear polarization. The telescope is very similar in design to the ASTRO-H HXT telescopes that has the world's largest effective area above 10 keV. XL-Calibur will use the same type of mirror. The detector unit combines a low atomic number Compton scatterer with a CdZnTe detector assembly to measure the polarization making use of the fact that polarized photons Compton scatter preferentially perpendicular to the electric field orientation. It also contains a CdZnTe imager at the bottom. The detector assembly is surrounded by a BGO anticoincidence shield. The pointing system with arcsecond accuracy will be achieved by the WASP (Wallops Arc Second Pointer) from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility. A first flight of the XL-Calibur is currently foreseen for 2022, flying from Sweden.
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- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik -- Astronomi, astrofysik och kosmologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences -- Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- X-ray light source
- X-ray generator
- X-ray beamline
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Abarr, Quincy
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Iyer, Nirmal
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Kiss, Mózsi
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Maeda, Yoshitomo
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