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X-ray polarimetry: historical remarks and other considerations | |
Polarimetry Techniques: | |
Scattering polarimetry in high energy astronomy | |
Photoelectric polarimeters | |
Bragg crystal polarimeters | |
X-ray polarimetry with the photon counting pixel detector timepix | |
HE polarized photon interactions with matter: simulations with geant4 | |
The GPD as a polarimeter: theory and facts | |
Ideal gas electron multipliers (GEMs) for x-ray polarimeters | |
Broad-band soft x-ray polarimetry | |
Feasibility of x-ray photoelectric polarimeters with large field of view | |
Angular resolution of a photoelectric polarimeter | |
Development of a Thomson x-ray polarimeter | |
Hard x / soft gamma ray polarimetry using a Laue lens | |
Polarized Emission in X-ray Sources: | |
Probing strong gravity effects with x-ray polarimetry | |
X-ray polarization from black holes in the thermal state | |
Strong-gravity effects acting on polarization from orbiting spots | |
Polarization of thermal emission from accreting black holes | |
X-ray polarimetry and radio-quiet AGN | |
The soft x-ray polarization in obscured AGN | |
The polarization of complex x-ray sources | |
Polarization of Compton x-rays from jets in AGN | |
Polarization of x-ray lines from galaxy clusters and elliptical galaxies | |
Polarization characteristics of rotation-powered pulsars | |
Polarized x-rays from magnetized neutron stars | |
Polarization properties of x-ray millisecond pulsars | |
X-ray polarization signatures of neutron stars | |
Polarization from the oscillating magnetized accretion torus | |
X-ray polarization from accreting white dwarfs and associated systems | |
Polarization of pulsar wind nebulae | |
X-ray polarization of gamma-ray bursts | |
Central engine afterglow from GRBs and the polarization signature | |
GRB afterglow polarimetry. Past, present and future | |
Gamma-ray polarimetry with SPI | |
INTEGRAL/IBIS observations of the Crab Nebula and GRB 041219A | |
Fermi results on the origin of high energy emission in pulsars | |
Diagnostics of the evolution of spiral galaxies in a cluster environment | |
Future Missions: | |
Gravity and extreme magnetism SMEX (GEMS) | |
Programs of x-ray polarimetry in Italy | |
A polarimeter for IXO | |
Polarimetry with ASTRO-H soft gamma-ray detector | |
EXIST and its polarization sensitivity | |
PoGOLite: a balloon-borne soft gamma-ray polarimeter | |
Studies of neutron background rejection in the PoGOLite polarimeter | |
Observing polarized x-rays with PoGOLite | |
Pre-flight qualification tests of the PoGOLite detector system | |
The gamma-ray polarimeter experiment (GRAPE) Balloon Payload | |
POLAR: an instrument dedicated to GRB polarization measurement | |
Polarisation detection capability of GRIPS | |
X-ray and y-ray polarimetry small satellite mission polaris | |
GAP aboard the solar powered sail mission | |
Hard x-ray polarimeter for small satellite missions | |
Performance of hard x-ray polarimeter: PHENEX | |
GRB polarimetry with POET | |
Index | |
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