Research Highlights The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): An Overview

摘要

The Imaging X-ray Explorer (IXPE) will be the next in the line of NASA's Small Explorer Missions. The mission allows, for the first time imaging X-ray polarimetry with sufficient sensitivity to study approximately 50 X-ray sources per year of observing. The most unique feature of this mission provides imageresolved polarization measurements for a significant number of extended objects such as supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae.