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arxiv: 0911.5099 · v1 · submitted 2009-11-26 · 🌌 astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE

Angular Resolution of a Photoelectric Polarimeter in the Focus of an Optical System

Francesco Lazzarotto , Sergio Fabiani , Enrico Costa , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Alda Rubini
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Ronaldo Bellazzini Alessandro Brez Gloria Spandre Vincenzo Cotroneo Alberto Moretti Giovanni Pareschi Giampiero Tagliaferri
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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.

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