2015/01/31 by Maxim Eingorn, Lakma Fernando, Branislav Vlahović +10 · 9 citations
Chemistry · Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #Aerospace engineering #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Chemistry #Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena #Detector #Energy (signal processing) #Engineering #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #High-energy astronomy #Monte Carlo method #Nuclear physics #Optics #Photon #Photon energy #Physics #Polarimeter #Polarimetry #Polarization (electrochemistry) #Range (aeronautics) #Scattering #Statistics #Synchrotron #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM #physics.ins-det
paper · pdf · doi:10.1117/1.jatis.4.1.011006
published in Journal of Astronomical Telescopes Instruments and Systems 4(01), 1 (SPIE) · 19 pages, 7 figures
openalex publication_date 2018/03/30 · arxiv created 2018/04/11 · arxiv updated 2018/04/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/06
A high-energy photon polarimeter for astrophysics studies in the energy range from 10 to 800 MeV is considered. The proposed concept uses a stack of silicon microstrip detectors, where they play the roles of both a converter and a tracker. The purpose of this paper is to outline the parameters of such a polarimeter and to estimate the productivity of measurements. Our study, supported by a Monte Carlo simulation, shows that with a 1-year observation period the polarimeter will provide 6% accuracy of the polarization degree for photon energies above 100 MeV, which would be a significant advance relative to the currently explored energy range of a few MeV. The proposed polarimeter design could easily be adjusted to the specific photon energy range to maximize efficiency if needed.