Project information
- Papers links:
- Joint machine learning and analytic track reconstruction for X-ray polarimetry with gas pixel detectors
- The IXPE view of GRB 221009A
- Polarized blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks
- Polarized x-rays constrain the disk-jet geometry in the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1
- Simultaneous space and phase resolved X-ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar and nebula
- Press Releases:
- NASA Missions Study What May Be a 1-In-10,000-Year Gamma-ray Burst
- NASA’s IXPE Helps Solve Black Hole Jet Mystery
- NASA’s IXPE Reveals Shape, Orientation of Hot Matter Around Black Hole
- Historic Nebula Seen Like Never Before With NASA's IXPE
About this science case
High-energy polarimetry (from X-rays to gamma-rays) opens up a new window to the universe, providing new a diagnostic for the study of a vast variaty of astrophysical objects. The Imaging X-ray polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is greatly advancing our understanding of X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei, among other objects. The future Compton Spectrometer and Imager (COSI) will provide polarization observation in the MeV band for GRB and other steady sources with interesting overlap with IXPE science.