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8 October 1992 Performances of the imaging proportional counter of the stellar x-ray polarimeter
Enrico Costa, Giuseppe Di Persio, Marco Feroci, Luigi Piro, Bruno Martino, Alda Rubini, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Massaro, G. C. Perola, Giuseppe Manzo, Philip E. Kaaret, Robert Novick, Andrea E. Santangelo
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Abstract
The Stellar X-Ray Polarimeter employs the same Imaging Proportional Counters for both the Bragg and the scattering stage. We show the main characteristics of these detectors and their performances on the basis of tests on the Technical Constructive Model and on the Engineering Models.
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Enrico Costa, Giuseppe Di Persio, Marco Feroci, Luigi Piro, Bruno Martino, Alda Rubini, Paolo Soffitta, Enrico Massaro, G. C. Perola, Giuseppe Manzo, Philip E. Kaaret, Robert Novick, and Andrea E. Santangelo "Performances of the imaging proportional counter of the stellar x-ray polarimeter", Proc. SPIE 1743, EUV, X-Ray, and Gamma-Ray Instrumentation for Astronomy III, (8 October 1992); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.130672
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KEYWORDS
Sensors

X-rays

X-ray astronomy

Extreme ultraviolet

Gamma radiation

Photons

Polarimetry

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