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The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Technical Overview IIThe 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.
Document ID
20190030799
Acquisition Source
Marshall Space Flight Center
Document Type
Conference Paper
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Authors
O'Dell, Stephen L.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Attin, Primo
(INAF Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino Turin, Italy)
Baldini, Luca
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Barbanera, Mattia
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Baumgartner, Wayne H.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Bellazzini, Ronaldo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Bladt, Jeff
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Bongiorno, Stephen D.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Brez, Alessandro
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Cavazzuti, Elisabetta
(Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Rome, Italy)
Citraro, Saverio
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Costa, Enrico
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Deininger, William D.
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Del Monte, Ettore
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Dietz, Kurtis L.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Di Lalla, Niccolò
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Donnarumma, Immacolata
(Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Rome, Italy)
Elsner, Ronald F.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Fabiani, Sergio
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Ferrazzoli, Riccardo
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Guy, Larry
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Kalinowski, William
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Kaspi, Victoria M.
(McGill University Montreal, Quebec, Canada)
Kelley, Anthony R.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Kolodziejczak, Jeffery J.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Latronico, Luca
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Lefevre, Carlo
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Lucchesi, Leonardo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Manfreda, Alberto
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Marshall, Herman L.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Cambridge, MA, United States)
Masciarelli, James
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Matt, Giorgio
(Universita degli Studi Roma Tre Rome, Italy)
Minuti, Massimo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Muleri, Fabio
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Nasimi, Hikmat
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Nuti, Alessio
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Orsini, Leonardo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Osborne, Darren
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Perri, Matteo
(INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Rome Rome, Italy)
Pesce-Rollins, Melissa
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Peterson, Colin
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Pinchera, Michele
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Puccetti, Simonetta
(Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Rome, Italy)
Ramsey, Brian D.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Ratheesh, Ajay
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Romani, Roger W.
(Stanford Univ. Stanford, CA, United States)
Santoli, Francesco
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Sciortino, Andrea
(OHB Italia SpA Milano, Italey)
Sgr, Carmelo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Smith, Brian T.
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Spandre, Gloria
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Soffitta, Paolo
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Tennant, Allyn F.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Tobia, Antonino
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Trois, Alessio
(INAF Osservatorio Astronomico di Cagliari Cagliari, Italy)
Wedmore, Jeffrey
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Weisskopf, Martin C.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Xie, Fei
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Zanetti, Francesco
(OHB Italia SpA Milano, Italey)
Alexander, Cheryl
(Linc Research, Inc. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Allen, D. Zachery
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Amici, Fabrizio
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Antoniak, Spencer
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Bonino, Raffaella
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Borotto, Fabio
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Breeding, Shawn
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Brienza, Daniele
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Bygott, H. Kyle
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Caporale, Ciro
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Cardelli, Claudia
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Ceccanti, Marco
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Centrone, Mauro
(INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Rome Rome, Italy)
Di Persio, Giuseppe
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Evangelista, Yuri
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Ferrie, MacKenzie
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Footdale, Joseph
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Forsyth, Brent
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Foster, Michelle
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Gunji, Shuichi
(Yamagata University Yamagata, Japan)
Gurnee, Eli
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Hibbard, Grant
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Johnson, Sandra
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Kelly, Eric
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Kilaru, Kiranmayee
(Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Huntsville, AL, United States)
La Monaca, Fabio
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Le Roy, Shelley
(Jacobs Engineering Group Huntsville, AL, United States)
Loffredo, Pasqualino
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Magazzu, Guido
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Marengo, Marco
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Marrocchesi, Alessandra
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Massaro, Francesco
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
McCracken, Jeffrey
(Linc Research, Inc. Huntsville, AL, United States)
McEachen, Michael
(Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems Dulles, VA, United States)
Mereu, Paolo
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Mitchell, Scott
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki
(Nagoya University Nagoya, Japan)
Morbidini, Alfredo
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Mosti, Federico
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Negro, Michela
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Oppedisano, Chiara
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Pacheco, Richard
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Paggi, Alessandro
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Pavelitz, Steven D.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Pentz, Christina
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Piazzolla, Raffaele
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Porter, Brad
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Profeti, Alessandro
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Pisa, Italy)
Ranganathan, Jaganathan
(Universities Space Research Association (USRA) Huntsville, AL, United States)
Rankin, John
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Root, Noah
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Rubini, Alda
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Ruswick, Stephanie
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Sanchez, Javier
(Jacobs Engineering Group Huntsville, AL, United States)
Scalise, Emanuele
(Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (INAF-IAPS) Rome, Italy)
Schindhelm, Sarah
(Ball Aerospace Systems Div. Boulder, CO, United States)
Speegle, Chet O.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Tamagawa, Toru
(Nishina Center for Accelerator-Based Science Saitama, Japan)
Tardiola, Marcello
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN) Turin, Italy)
Walden, Amy L.
(NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville, AL, United States)
Weddendorf, Bruce
(Weddendorf Design, Inc. Huntsville, AL, United States)
Welch, David
(Colorado Univ. Boulder, CO, United States)
Date Acquired
September 13, 2019
Publication Date
September 9, 2019
Publication Information
Publication: Proceedings of SPIE
Publisher: Society of Photo-optical Instrumentation Engineers
Volume: 11118
ISSN: 0277-786X
e-ISSN: 1996-756X
Subject Category
Spacecraft Design, Testing And Performance
Report/Patent Number
MSFC-E-DAA-TN72945
Meeting Information
Meeting: SPIE Optical Engineering + Applications
Location: San Diego, CA
Country: United States
Start Date: August 11, 2019
End Date: August 15, 2019
Sponsors: International Society for Optical Engineering
Funding Number(s)
CONTRACT_GRANT: ASI-INAF n.2017-12-H.0
CONTRACT_GRANT: ASI-INFN n.2017-13-H.0
CONTRACT_GRANT: NNM15AA18C
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External Peer Committee
Keywords
X-ray astronomy
Grazing-incidence optics
Gas pixel detectors
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