POLARIX: A small mission of x-ray polarimetry

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6266 I, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Costa, Enrico ^a   Bellazzini, Ronaldo ^b   Soffitta, Paolo ^a   Muleri, Fabio ^a   Feroci, Marco ^a   Frutti, Massimo ^a   Mastropietro, Marcello ^a   Pacciani, Luigi ^a   Rubini, Alda ^a   Morelli, Ennio ^c   Baldini, Luca ^b   Bitti, Francesco ^b   Brez, Alessandro ^b   Cavalca, Francesco ^b   Latronico, Luca ^b   Massai, Marco Maria ^b   Omodei, Nicola ^b   Pinchera, Michele ^b   Sgró, Carmelo ^b   Spandre, Gloria ^b   Matt, Giorgio ^d   Perola, Giuseppe Cesare ^d   Chincarini, Guido ^e,f   Citterio, Oberto ^e   Tagliaferri, Gianpiero ^e   Pareschi, Giovanni ^e   Cotroneo, Vincenzo ^e   more..

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^c OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^d ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Detectors; Polarimetry; Telescope; X ray Astronomy

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DETECTORS; PHOTOELECTRIC DEVICES; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MICRO PATTERN GAS CHAMBER; PHOTOELECTRIC POLARIMETERS; X-RAY ASTRONOMY;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 33748994290     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.672951     Document Type: Conference Paper

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