@inproceedings{e5fbd9ee9e21475d9d9d4bc0ed9e6888,
title = "The X-ray polarimeter instrument on board the Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources (PRAXyS) mission",
abstract = "The Polarimeter for Relativistic Astrophysical X-ray Sources (PRAXyS) is one of three Small Explorer (SMEX) missions selected by NASA for Phase A study. The PRAXyS observatory carries an X-ray Polarimeter Instrument (XPI) capable of measuring the linear polarization from a variety of high energy sources, including black holes, neutron stars, and supernova remnants. The XPI is comprised of two identical mirror-Time Projection Chamber (TPC) polarimeter telescopes with a system effective area of 124 cm2 at 3 keV, capable of photon limited observations for sources as faint as 1 mCrab. The XPI is built with well-established technologies. This paper will describe the performance of the XPI flight mirror with the engineering test unit polarimeter.",
keywords = "PRAXyS, Polarimeter, grazing incidence mirrors, polarization",
author = "Hill, {J. E.} and Black, {J. K.} and K. Jahoda and T. Tamagawa and W. Iwakiri and T. Kitaguchi and M. Kubota and P. Kaaret and R. McCurdy and Miles, {D. M.} and T. Okajima and Y. Soong and L. Olsen and L. Sparr and Mosely, {S. J.} and D. Nolan",
note = "Funding Information: This work was supported via proposal 13-APRA13-0141 in response to the NASA Astrophysics Research and Analysis solicitation NNH13ZDA001N-APRA. The authors would like to acknowledge the invaluable help of Richard Koenecke. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2016 SPIE.; Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray ; Conference date: 26-06-2016 Through 01-07-2016",
year = "2016",
doi = "10.1117/12.2233322",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering",
publisher = "SPIE",
editor = "Marshall Bautz and Tadayuki Takahashi and {den Herder}, {Jan-Willem A.}",
booktitle = "Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2016",
}