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T. Courvoisier

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XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

2016

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 detector that efficiently exploits the photoelectric effect and to X-ray optics with large effective area. XIPE uniqueness is time-spectrally-spatially- resolved X-ray polarimetry as a breakthrough in high energy astrophysics and fundamental physics. Indeed the payload consists of three Gas Pixel Detectors at the focus of three X-ray optics with a total effective area larger than one XMM mirror bu…

X-ray AstronomyHigh-energy astronomyPolarimetryX-ray opticsX-ray telescopeCondensed Matter Physic01 natural sciencesObservatory0103 physical sciencesPolarimetryElectronicOptical and Magnetic MaterialsSpectral resolutionElectrical and Electronic Engineering010303 astronomy & astrophysicsGas Pixel DetectorPhysicsX-ray astronomyta115X-ray optics010308 nuclear & particles physicsElectronic Optical and Magnetic MaterialApplied MathematicsVegaAstronomyComputer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern RecognitionGas Pixel Detector; Polarimetry; X-ray Astronomy; X-ray opticsCondensed Matter PhysicsComputer Science ApplicationsApplied MathematicGas Pixel Detector; Polarimetry; X-ray Astronomy; X-ray optics; Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials; Condensed Matter Physics; Computer Science Applications1707 Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Applied Mathematics; Electrical and Electronic EngineeringGas Pixel Detector; Polarimetry; X-ray Astronomy; X-ray optics; Electronic Optical and Magnetic Materials; Condensed Matter Physics; Computer Science Applications; Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition; Applied Mathematics; Electrical and Electronic EngineeringComputer Vision and Pattern RecognitionX-ray optic
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X-Ray Spectral Variability of 3C273

1985

3C273 has been monitored by EXOSAT over the period December 1983 to June 1984 in 4 observations. In the December observation the flux was high and the spectrum showed a power law index of 1.5 changing to 0.9 at~8 keV. In subsequent observations the flux dropped to~40% of its original value and the hard tail disappeared. In the last observation the LE flux increased by a factor of 2 with no accompanying ME flux increase.

PhysicsSpectral indexX-ray astronomyX-rayCompton scatteringAstronomyFluxQuasarAstrophysicsPower lawX ray spectra
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