Polarization properties of X-ray tubes used for Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer calibration
Polarization properties of X-ray tubes used for Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer calibration
In this work, we measured the polarization properties of the X-rays emitted from the X-ray tubes, which were used during the calibration of the instrument onboard Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE). X-ray tubes are used as a source of unpolarized X-rays to calibrate the response of the gas pixel detectors …