The hard X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur

被引：5

作者：

Beilicke, M. ^{[1
,2
]}

Baring, M. G. ^{[3
]}

Barthelmy, S. ^{[2
,4
]}

Binns, W. R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Buckley, J. ^{[1
,2
]}

Cowsik, R. ^{[1
,2
]}

Dowkontt, P. ^{[1
,2
]}

Guo, Q. ^{[1
,2
]}

Haba, Y. ^{[5
]}

Israel, M. H. ^{[1
,2
]}

Kunieda, H. ^{[5
]}

Lee, K. ^{[1
,2
]}

Martin, J. ^{[1
]}

Matsumoto, H. ^{[5
]}

Miyazawa, T. ^{[5
]}

Okajima, T. ^{[4
]}

Schnittman, J. ^{[4
]}

Tamura, K. ^{[5
]}

Tueller, J. ^{[4
]}

Krawczynski, H. ^{[1
,2
]}

机构：

[1] Washington Univ, Dept Phys, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[2] Washington Univ, McDonnell Ctr Space Sci, St Louis, MO 63130 USA

[3] Rice Univ, Houston, TX USA

[4] Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD USA

[5] Nagoya Univ, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan

来源：

HIGH ENERGY GAMMA-RAY ASTRONOMY | 2012年 / 1505卷

关键词：

X-rays; polarization; black hole; InFOCuS; X-Calibur; EMISSION; CRAB;

D O I：

10.1063/1.4772382

中图分类号：

P1 [天文学];

学科分类号：

0704 ;

摘要：

X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole systems, micro-quasars, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts. We designed, built and tested a hard X-ray polarimeter, X-Calibur, to be used in the focal plane of the InFOC mu S grazing incidence hard X-ray telescope. X-Calibur combines a low-Z Compton scatterer with a CZT detector assembly to measure the polarization of 20-60keV X-rays making use of the fact that polarized photons Compton scatter preferentially perpendicular to the electric field orientation; in principal, a similar space-borne experiment could be operated in the 5-100keV regime. X-Calibur achieves a high detection efficiency of order unity.

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页码：805 / 808

页数：4

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