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</b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">Mark Pearce <<a href="mailto:pearce@kth.se" class="">pearce@kth.se</a>><br class="">
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<div class="">On Thursday, Herman will be the opponent for Victor Mikhalev’s Ph.D. Thesis defence (starting at 1400, FB42) - “Measurements of hard X-ray polarisation from the Crab and Cygnus X-1” (<a href="http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1208715" class="">http://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A1208715</a>).</div>
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<span style="font-family: GillSans;" class=""><b class="">Expanding the Field of X-ray Polarimetry</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: GillSans;" class="">I will present several projects to measure the X-ray polarizations of astronomical sources over the next 5-10 years. Previous observations were obtained in the 1970s for bright Galactic sources such as X-ray binaries
and the Crab Nebula using a Bragg reflection from graphite crystals, limiting the measurements to 2.6 and 5.2 keV. Recently, detections have been reported using Compton scattering at hard X-rays. An approved NASA mission is the Imaging X-ray Polarization
Explorer (IXPE). It would operate in the 2-8 keV range and is expected to launch in early 2021. It has an imaging capability, with a resolution of about a half arc-minute, and should detect X-ray polarizations as low as 1-5 percent for a dozen or more active
galaxies, supernova remnants, neutron stars, and X-ray binaries during a mission lifetime of a few years. I will describe the instrument and some of the science goals. I will also describe a design for a sounding rocket based polarimeter to work in the 0.2-0.6
keV band. The method uses gratings developed at MIT and multilayer coated mirrors. Potential targets include active galaxies, isolated neutron stars, and nearby black hole binaries in outburst. The configuration is extensible to orbital use, possibly to
be combined with other instruments to provide a bandpass from 0.2 to 50 keV.</span><br class="">
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