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arxiv: astro-ph/0603399 · v1 · submitted 2006-03-15 · 🌌 astro-ph

Opening a New Window to Fundamental Physics and Astrophysics: X-ray Polarimetry

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An extensive theoretical literature predicts that X-ray Polarimetry can directly determine relevant physical and geometrical parameters of astrophysical sources, and discriminate between models further than allowed by spectral and timing data only. X-ray Polarimetry can also provide tests of Fundamental Physics. A high sensitivity polarimeter in the focal plane of a New Generation X-ray telescope could open this new window in the High Energy Sky.

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