Hard X-ray compton polarimetry with the PENGUIN-M instrument in the spaceborne experiment CORONAS-PHOTON

Dergachev, V. A.; Matveev, G. A.; Kruglov, E. M.; Lazutkov, V. P.; Savchenko, M. I.; Skorodumov, D. V.; Pyatigorsky, G. A.; Chichikaluk, Y. A.; Shishov, I. I.; Khmylko, V. V.; Vasiliev, G. I.; Dranevich, V. A.; Krutkov, S. Y.; Stepanov, S. V.; Yurov, V. N.; Glyanenko, A. S.; Arkhangelsky, A. I.; Gorelyi, Yu. A.; Rubtsov, Igor V.

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“…Due to the large uncertainties in the measurements, any firm conclusion on the hard X-ray origin of the flares was not feasible from these measurements. (Bogomolov et al, 2003), MEGA (Bloser et al, 2006), PHENEX (Gunji et al, 2008), TIGRE (Bhattacharya et al, 2004;O'Neill et al, 1996), PENGUIN-M (Dergachev et al, 2009), GAP (Yonetoku et al, 2006), GRAPE (Bloser et al, 2009), POGO+ (Friis et al, 2018), COSI (Balloon) (Yang et al, 2018), SGD (Aharonian et al, 2018), X-Calibur (Kislat et al, 2018), XL-Calibur (Abarr et al, 2021), IBIS (Ubertini et al, 2003), SPI (Vedrenne et al, 2003), AstroSat (Vadawale et al, 2015), POLAR (Produit et al, 2018), POLAR-2 (Kole, 2019), PING-P (Kotov et al, 2016), PolariS (Hayashida et al, 2014), COSI (SMEX) (Tomsick et al, 2019), LEAP (McConnell et al, 2021), AMEGO (McEnery et al, 2019), e-ASTROGAM (De Angelis et al, 2018) 3 Scattering Polarimetry…”

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Gamma-Ray Polarimetry

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Chattopadhyay²,

Kislat³

et al. 2022

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While the scientific potential of high-energy X-ray and gamma-ray polarimetry has long been recognized, measuring the polarization of high-energy photons is challenging. To date, there has been very few significant detections from an astrophysical source. However, recent technological developments raise the possibility that this may change in the not-too-distant future. Significant progress has been made in the development of Gamma-ray Burst (GRB) polarimeters and polarization sensitive Compton telescopes. A second-generation dedicated GRB polarimeter, POLAR-2, is under development for launch in 2024, and COSI a secondgeneration polarization sensitive Compton Telescope has been selected by NASA for launch in 2025. This chapter reviews basic concepts and experimental approaches of scattering polarimetry of hard X-rays to MeV γ-rays, and pair production polarimetry of higher-energy photons.

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Gamma-Ray Polarimetry

Bernard¹,

Chattopadhyay²,

Kislat³

et al. 2022

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“…PENGUIN-M (Dergachev et al, 2009) on board the CORONAS-PHOTON solar mission, launched in 2009 and PING-P (Kotov et al, 2016) in the 2025 upcoming solar mission use similar Compton polarimetry geometry but with non-focal configuration to measure polarization of solar flares in 20 − 150 keV. Both the instru-ments use p-terphenyl active scatterer with NaI(Tl) and CsI scintillators as absorbers respectively read by individual PMTs (see Table 2).…”

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“…The field of hard X-ray polarimetry has been quite active in the last 10 − 15 years which can be seen through the new developments of dedicated polarimeters like SPR-N (Bogomolov et al, 2003;Zhitnik et al, 2006), POLAR (Sun et al, 2016), PoGOLite and PoGO+ , X-Calibur (Guo et al, 2011(Guo et al, , 2013, GRAPE (Bloser et al, 2009;Mc-Connell et al, 2009), GAP (Yonetoku et al, 2006), PENGUIN-M (Dergachev et al, 2009), COSI (Yang et al, 2018;Lowell et al, 2017) and a large number of new proposals to develop hard X-ray polarimeters, e.g. COSI-2 (Tomsick et al, 2019), POLAR-2 (Kole, 2019), Daksha 1 , AMEGO (McEnery et al, 2019) etc.…”

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Hard X-ray Polarimetry -- An overview of the method, science drivers and recent findings

Chattopadhyay

2021

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The last decade has seen a leapfrog in the interest in X-ray polarimetry with a number of new polarization measurements in hard X-rays from AstroSat, POLAR, GAP, and PoGO+. The measurements provide some interesting insights into various astrophysical phenomena such as coronal geometry and disk-jet connection in black hole X-ray binaries, hard X-ray emission mechanism in pulsars and Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB). They also highlight an increase in polarization with energy which makes hard X-ray polarimetry extremely appealing. There is a number of confirmed hard X-ray polarimetry experiments which along with the existing instruments (AstroSat and INTEGRAL) makes this field further exciting. Polarization experiments may also see a significant progress in sensitivity with new developments in scintillator readouts, active pixel sensors, CZT detectors. In particular, the advent of hard X-ray focusing optics, will enable designing of compact focal plane polarimeters with a multifold enhancement in sensitivity. In this review, we will focus on the recent polarimetry findings, science potential of hard X-ray polarimetry along with possible improvements in the measurement techniques.

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“…The PENGUIN-M instrument [126], on board the CORONAS-PHOTON mission, is designed to measure the degree of linear polarization of X-rays from solar flares in the energy range 20-150 keV and their X-ray spectra in the energy range 2-500 keV by means of Compton scattering. CORONAS-PHOTON was launched in 2009, but due to a failure of the spacecraft it was lost in 2010.…”

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Instrumentation and Future Missions in the Upcoming Era of X-ray Polarimetry

Fabiani

2018

Galaxies

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The maturity of current detectors based on technologies that range from solid state to gases renewed the interest for X-ray polarimetry, raising the enthusiasm of a wide scientific community to improve the performance of polarimeters as well as to produce more detailed theoretical predictions. We will introduce the basic concepts about measuring the polarization of photons, especially in the X-rays, and we will review the current state of the art of polarimeters in a wide energy range from soft to hard X-rays, from solar flares to distant astrophysical sources. We will introduce relevant examples of polarimeters developed from the recent past up to the panorama of upcoming space missions to show how the recent development of the technology is allowing reopening the observational window of X-ray polarimetry.

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Hard X-ray compton polarimetry with the PENGUIN-M instrument in the spaceborne experiment CORONAS-PHOTON

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Hard X-ray Polarimetry -- An overview of the method, science drivers and recent findings

Instrumentation and Future Missions in the Upcoming Era of X-ray Polarimetry

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