1. The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Technical Overview II
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O'Dell, Stephen L, Attin, Primo, Baldini, Luca, Barbanera, Mattia, Baumgartner, Wayne H, Bellazzini, Ronaldo, Bladt, Jeff, Bongiorno, Stephen D, Brez, Alessandro, Cavazzuti, Elisabetta, Citraro, Saverio, Costa, Enrico, Deininger, William D, Del Monte, Ettore, Dietz, Kurtis L, Di Lalla, Niccolò, Donnarumma, Immacolata, Elsner, Ronald F, Fabiani, Sergio, Ferrazzoli, Riccardo, Guy, Larry, Kalinowski, William, Kaspi, Victoria M, Kelley, Anthony R, Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J, Latronico, Luca, Lefevre, Carlo, Lucchesi, Leonardo, Manfreda, Alberto, Marshall, Herman L, Masciarelli, James, Matt, Giorgio, Minuti, Massimo, Muleri, Fabio, Nasimi, Hikmat, Nuti, Alessio, Orsini, Leonardo, Osborne, Darren, Perri, Matteo, Pesce-Rollins, Melissa, Peterson, Colin, Pinchera, Michele, Puccetti, Simonetta, Ramsey, Brian D, Ratheesh, Ajay, Romani, Roger W, Santoli, Francesco, Sciortino, Andrea, Sgr, Carmelo, Smith, Brian T, Spandre, Gloria, Soffitta, Paolo, Tennant, Allyn F, Tobia, Antonino, Trois, Alessio, Wedmore, Jeffrey, Weisskopf, Martin C, Xie, Fei, Zanetti, Francesco, Alexander, Cheryl, Allen, D. Zachery, Amici, Fabrizio, Antoniak, Spencer, Bonino, Raffaella, Borotto, Fabio, Breeding, Shawn, Brienza, Daniele, Bygott, H. Kyle, Caporale, Ciro, Cardelli, Claudia, Ceccanti, Marco, Centrone, Mauro, Di Persio, Giuseppe, Evangelista, Yuri, Ferrie, MacKenzie, Footdale, Joseph, Forsyth, Brent, Foster, Michelle, Gunji, Shuichi, Gurnee, Eli, Hibbard, Grant, Johnson, Sandra, Kelly, Eric, Kilaru, Kiranmayee, La Monaca, Fabio, Le Roy, Shelley, Loffredo, Pasqualino, Magazzu, Guido, Marengo, Marco, Marrocchesi, Alessandra, Massaro, Francesco, McCracken, Jeffrey, McEachen, Michael, Mereu, Paolo, Mitchell, Scott, Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki, Morbidini, Alfredo, Mosti, Federico, Negro, Michela, Oppedisano, Chiara, Pacheco, Richard, Paggi, Alessandro, Pavelitz, Steven D, Pentz, Christina, Piazzolla, Raffaele, Porter, Brad, Profeti, Alessandro, Ranganathan, Jaganathan, Rankin, John, Root, Noah, Rubini, Alda, Ruswick, Stephanie, Sanchez, Javier, Scalise, Emanuele, Schindhelm, Sarah, Speegle, Chet O, Tamagawa, Toru, Tardiola, Marcello, Walden, Amy L, Weddendorf, Bruce, and Welch, David
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Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance - Abstract
The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) will add polarization to the properties (time, energy, and position) observed in x-ray astronomy. A NASA Astrophysics Small Explorer (SMEX) in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI), IXPE will measure the 2–8-keV polarization of a few dozen sources during the first 2 years following its 2021 launch. The IXPE Observatory includes three identical x-ray telescopes, each comprising a 4-m-focal-length (grazingincidence) mirror module assembly (MMA) and a polarization-sensitive (imaging) detector unit (DU), separated by a deployable optical bench. The Observatory’s Spacecraft provides typical subsystems (mechanical, structural, thermal, power, electrical, telecommunications, etc.), an attitude determination and control subsystem for 3-axis stabilized pointing, and a command and data handling subsystem communicating with the science instrument and the Spacecraft subsystems.
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- 2019
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