Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

arXiv:2607.17375 · astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-07-19 · Read on arXiv

Brian Ramsey, Paolo Soffitta, Martin C. Weisskopf

NASA-MSFC · INAF-IAPS · NASA-MSFC

astro-ph.IM, astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-07-19

Comments: 45 pages, 10 figures, 9 tables. Invited chapter for the edited book "X-ray Polarimetry: Detection, Observations, Modeling and the Future" (Eds. Honghui Liu and Adam Ingram), Springer Singapore, expected in 2026

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Calibration — 40× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer — 29× in this paper
• Alignment — 18× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• AGN — 16× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei — 4× in this paper
• Trace — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Science Operations Center — 3× in this paper
• Main Pulse — 2× in this paper
• Mission Operations Center — 2× in this paper
• Accuracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aperture — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Application Specific Integrated Circuit — 1× in this paper
• Degeneracy — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fidelity — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Flaring Branch — 1× in this paper
• High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center — 1× in this paper
• Horizontal Branch — 1× in this paper
• Normal Branch — 1× in this paper
• Redundancy — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• South Atlantic Anomaly — 1× in this paper

Sources

• Polarization of reflected X-ray emission from the Sgr A molecular complex: multiple flares, multiple sources?
• X-ray polarization measurement of the gold standard of radio-quiet active galactic nuclei : NGC 1068
• An algorithm to calibrate and correct the response to unpolarized radiation of the X-ray polarimeter on board IXPE
• The First X-ray Polarization Observation of the Black Hole X-ray Binary 4U 1630-47 in the Steep Power Law State
• IXPE and XMM-Newton observations of the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1806-20
• Cygnus X-3 revealed as a Galactic ultraluminous X-ray source by IXPE

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