The legacy of IXPE: directions towards a new generation of 3D photo-electric x-ray polarimetry missions

Ajay Ratheesh; Paolo Soffitta; Enrico Costa; Ettore Del Monte; Alessandro Di Marco; Giuseppe Di Persio; Klaus Desch; Nicolas De Angelis; Dawoon E. Kim; Sergio Fabiani; Riccardo Ferrazzoli; Markus Gruber; Jochen Kaminski; Saba Imtiaz; Fabio La Monaca; Carlo Lefevre; Hemanth Manikantan; Alfredo Morbidini; Romana Mikusincova; Fabio Muleri; Vladislavs Plesanovs; John Rankin; Alda Rubini

doi:10.1117/12.3020552

21 August 2024 The legacy of IXPE: directions towards a new generation of 3D photo-electric x-ray polarimetry missions

Ajay Ratheesh, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Ettore Del Monte, Alessandro Di Marco, Giuseppe Di Persio, Klaus Desch, Nicolas De Angelis, Dawoon E. Kim, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Markus Gruber, Jochen Kaminski, Saba Imtiaz, Fabio La Monaca, Carlo Lefevre, Hemanth Manikantan, Alfredo Morbidini, Romana Mikusincova, Fabio Muleri, Vladislavs Plesanovs, John Rankin, Alda Rubini

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Proceedings Volume 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 1309386 (2024) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020552
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2024, Yokohama, Japan

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IXPE has been a highly successful mission, opening a new window in X-ray astronomy. IXPE observations have highlighted the importance of polarimetry along with spectroscopy in determining the geometry and physics behind many high-energy emissions from black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs), Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWN), Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) etc. However, IXPE is just the first step towards future wide band (0.1 to 100 keV) X-ray polarimetry. The future of this field demands larger effective areas, better energy resolution, and broader energy bands. IXPE is barely capable to address key scientific cases such as reflection features in X-ray binaries, molecular clouds around the Galactic Center, radio-quiet AGNs, non-thermal emission regions in supernova remnants etc. To take advantage of the recent advances in X-ray optics, gaseous detectors with different thickness, pressures and gas mixtures would be required. Using next-generation ASICs, like Timepix3, it is possible to have parallel fast readout, providing simultaneous time and charge information for each pixel, enabling 3D imaging of photoelectron tracks. In this article, we explore such a possibility using GridPix detectors.

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Ajay Ratheesh, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Costa, Ettore Del Monte, Alessandro Di Marco, Giuseppe Di Persio, Klaus Desch, Nicolas De Angelis, Dawoon E. Kim, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Markus Gruber, Jochen Kaminski, Saba Imtiaz, Fabio La Monaca, Carlo Lefevre, Hemanth Manikantan, Alfredo Morbidini, Romana Mikusincova, Fabio Muleri, Vladislavs Plesanovs, John Rankin, and Alda Rubini "The legacy of IXPE: directions towards a new generation of 3D photo-electric x-ray polarimetry missions", Proc. SPIE 13093, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2024: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 1309386 (21 August 2024); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.3020552

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