Oct 1, 2025 · The Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) exploits the polarization state of light from astrophysical sources to provide insight into our understanding of X-ray production in …

Aug 19, 2022 · The cost of IXPE will be $188 million, which includes the cost of the launch vehicle and operations and data analysis after launch. The Principal Investigator is Dr. Martin …

Oct 2, 2021 · IXPE is telemetry limited for bright sources and this requires that observations be handled slightly differently from the way most X-ray missions operate. If IXPE is observing a …

Dec 20, 2024 · The thirty-second discovery paper using IXPE data has been published by the Astrophysical Journal, authored by Roberto Turolla and the IXPE team, it is titled IXPE and …

Nov 7, 2024 · February 27, 2020: Detector unit two for the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) was transferred by the Italian Space Agency (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana - ASI) to the …

Mar 7, 2025 · This page contains some useful information about IXPE, Software, Data products. You are encouraged to look over all these documents before analyzing any IXPE data.

Jul 30, 2025 · For Scientists: IXPE Research Papers A bibliography of papers that use IXPE data and results can be found HERE.

IXPE fact sheet

Aug 11, 2020 · How Do We Detect Polarized X-ray Light? IXPE will have three identical X-ray telescopes, with polarization detectors at each focus. The detectors, called Gas Pixel …

IXPE detectors are similar to classic proportional counters in that they use a gas medium to absorb incident X-rays and an applied voltage to cause the resulting electron charge cloud to …