Speaker
Giorgio Matt
(Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Universita' Roma Tre)
Description
IXPE, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer, has been selected by NASA on January 2017 as the next mission in the Small Explorer Program, for a launch in early 2021. IXPE, a collaboration between NASA and ASI (the Italian Space Agency), is led by M. Weisskopf (MSFC) and is composed by three identical telescopes with, at the focal plane, a Gax Pixel Detector based on the photoelectric effect. In this talk the main characteristics of the mission and its scientific objectives will be described.
Author
Giorgio Matt
(Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Universita' Roma Tre)
