Design and tests of the hard X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur

M. Beilicke; R. Cowsik; P. Dowkontt; Q. Guo; F. Kislat; S. Barthelmy; T. Okajima; J. W. Mitchell; J. Schnittman; B. Zeiger; G. De Geronimo; M. G. Baring; A. Bodaghee; T. Miyazawa; K. D. Finkelstein; H. Krawczynski

doi:10.14311/APP.2014.01.0293

Design and tests of the hard X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur

M. Beilicke, R. Cowsik, P. Dowkontt, Q. Guo, F. Kislat, S. Barthelmy, T. Okajima, J. W. Mitchell, J. Schnittman, B. Zeiger, G. De Geronimo, M. G. Baring, A. Bodaghee, T. Miyazawa, K. D. Finkelstein, H. Krawczynski

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X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy astrophysical sources, such as binary black hole systems, micro-quasars, active galactic nuclei, and gamma-ray bursts. We designed, built and tested a hard X-ray polarimeter, X-Calibur, to be used in the focal plane of the InFOCuS grazing incidence hard X-ray telescope. X-Calibur combines a low-Z Compton scatterer with a CZT detector assembly to measure the polarization of 20-60keV X-rays making use of the fact that polarized photons Compton scatter preferentially perpendicular to the electric field orientation; in principal, a similar space-borne experiment could be operated in the 5-100 keV regime. X-Calibur achieves a high detection efficiency of order unity.

Original language	English
Pages	293-297
Number of pages	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2014.01.0293
State	Published - 2014
Event	10th International Workshop on Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources - Palermo, Sicily, Italy Duration: May 27 2013 → Jun 1 2013

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Conference	10th International Workshop on Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Palermo, Sicily
Period	05/27/13 → 06/1/13

Keywords

Black hole
InFOCuS
Polarization
X-Calibur
X-rays

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Beilicke, M., Cowsik, R., Dowkontt, P., Guo, Q., Kislat, F., Barthelmy, S., Okajima, T., Mitchell, J. W., Schnittman, J., Zeiger, B., De Geronimo, G., Baring, M. G., Bodaghee, A., Miyazawa, T., Finkelstein, K. D., & Krawczynski, H. (2014). Design and tests of the hard X-ray polarimeter X-Calibur. 293-297. Paper presented at 10th International Workshop on Multifrequency Behaviour of High Energy Cosmic Sources, Palermo, Sicily, Italy. https://doi.org/10.14311/APP.2014.01.0293

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