Equalizing the Pixel Response of the Imaging Photoelectric Polarimeter Onboard the IXPE Mission
Equalizing the Pixel Response of the Imaging Photoelectric Polarimeter Onboard the IXPE Mission
The Gas Pixel Detector is a gas detector, sensitive to the polarization of X-rays, currently flying on-board IXPE - the first observatory dedicated to X-ray polarimetry. It detects X-rays and their polarization by imaging the ionization tracks generated by photoelectrons absorbed in the sensitive volume, and then reconstructing the initial …