New insights on cosmic sources from X-ray polarimetry

19 Jun 2026, 09:00
30m

Speaker

Giorgio Matt (Roma Tre University)

Description

The launch of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) on December 2021 (re)opened the window of X-ray polarimetry. In its first 4.5 years of operation IXPE observed objects belonging to almost all classes of X-ray sources, with a wealth of interesting and often surprising results. In this talk I will provide a (inevitably biased) review of IXPE results, and briefly discuss possible future X-ray polarimetric missions.

Author

Giorgio Matt (Roma Tre University)

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