2009/11/26 by F. Lazzarotto, Francesco Lazzarotto, Lazzarotto, Francesco +35
Engineering · Physics and Astronomy · #CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors #Calibration and Measurement Techniques #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE) #Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) #Particle Detector Development and Performance #astro-ph.HE #astro-ph.IM
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0911.5099
Proceedings of "The coming of age of x-ray polarimetry" Conference, Rome, April 27th-30th, 2009
arxiv created 2009/11/26 · openalex publication_date 2009/11/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/08 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The INFN and INAF Italian research institutes developed a space-borne X-Ray polarimetry experiment based on a X-Ray telescope, focussing the radiation on a Gas Pixel Detector (GPD). The instrument obtains the polarization angle of the absorbed photons from the direction of emission of the photoelectrons as visualized in the GPD. Here we will show how we compute the angular resolution of such an instrument.