An X-ray polarimeter for HXMT mission

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 6686, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Costa, Enrico ^a   Bellazzini, Ronaldo ^c   Tagliaferri, Gianpiero ^d   Baldini, Luca ^c   Basso, Stefano ^d   Bregeon, Johan ^c   Brez, Alessandro ^c   Citterio, Oberto ^d   Cotroneo, Vincenzo ^d   Frontera, Filippo ^f,g   Frutti, Massimo ^a   Matt, Giorgio ^e   Minuti, Massimo ^c   Muleri, Fabio ^a,b   Pareschi, Giovanni ^d   Perola, Giuseppe Cesare ^e   Rubini, Alda ^a   Sgro, Carmelo ^c   Soffitta, Paolo ^a   Spandre, Gloria ^c  

^a INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c INFN SEZIONE DI PISA   (Italy)

^d INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^e ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^g OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Polarimetry; X ray astronomy; X ray optics

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; LIGHT POLARIZATION; PHOTOELECTRICITY; SPACE TELESCOPES; X RAY OPTICS;

HXMT MISSION; X-RAY ASTRONOMY; X-RAY POLARIMETERS; X-RAY TELESCOPES;

POLARIMETERS;

EID: 42249106068     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.734536     Document Type: Conference Paper

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