@inproceedings{53739c85b6b84cc692a784512165868c,
title = "Hard X-ray polarimetery with HX-POL",
abstract = "X-ray polarimetry offers a unique vantage to investigate particle acceleration from compact objects and relativistic outflows. The HX-POL concept uses a combination of Si and Cadmium Zinc Telluride (CZT) detectors to measure the polarization of 50 keV - 500 keV X-rays from cosmic sources through the azimuthal distribution of Compton scattered events. HX-POL would allow us to measure the polarization degrees of Crab-like sources well below 10\% for a one day balloon flight. A longer (15-30 day) flight would improve the polarization degree sensitivity to a few percent. In this contribution, we discuss the sensitivity of a space-borne HX-POL payload, and present new results from laboratory tests of the HX-POL Si and CZT detectors.",
keywords = "ASIC, CZT pixel detectors, Polarimetry, Si cross strip detectors, X-ray",
author = "Garson, \{Alfred B.\} and Kuen Lee and Jerrad Martin and Matthias Beilicke and Eric Wulf and Elena Novikova and Krawczynski, \{Henric S.\}",
year = "2010",
doi = "10.1117/12.856834",
language = "English",
isbn = "9780819482228",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010",
note = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2010: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 28-06-2010 Through 02-07-2010",
}