Conveners
X-ray in astrophysics
- Alessio Porcelli (Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi)
The Italian Space Agency (ASI) plays a key role in the filfilment of space missions, contributing to the scientific, technological and economic progress of our country. The agency accomplishes space experiments by collaborating with scientific and industrial entities, supporting them to the realization of new products able to achieve unprecedeted results as the fundamental information on the...
IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is the Small Explorer space mission developed in a partnership between NASA and ASI that is unveiling the polarized X-ray sky in the 2-8 kev energy band. IXPE was launched on December 9th 2021 and it is performing X-ray spectro-polarimetry of astrophysical sources, including imaging-polarimetry for extended ones and timing-polarimetry for X-ray...
Athena (Advanced Telescope for High Energy Astrophysics) is an ESA Large Class mission, at present under a re-defnition "design-to-cost” phase, planned to a prospective launch at L1 orbit on 2nd half of 2030s.
It will be an observatory alternatively focusing in its focal plane 2 complementary instruments: the X-IFU, a TES-based kilo-pixel array able to perform simultaneous high-grade energy...
In the last decades, the use of Compton telescopes has greatly increased in astronomy. Compton telescopes are designed to perform X-ray and γ-ray polarimetry of celestial bodies like neutron stars, quasars, supernova remnants and binary black holes. In this context, the ComPol project involves the implementation of a Compton telescope in a 1U CubeSat nanosatellite to perform polarimetric...
PANDORA (Plasmas for Astrophysics Nuclear Decays Observation and Radiation for Archaeometry) is an INFN project aiming at measuring, for the first time, possible variations of in-plasma β-decay lifetimes in isotopes of astrophysical interest, as a function of thermodynamical conditions of the in-laboratory controlled plasma environment. Theoretical predictions say that the ionization state can...
