Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 X-ray polarimetry: historical remarks and other considerations
- Part I Polarimetry techniques
- 2 Scattering polarimetry in high-energy astronomy
- 3 Photoelectric polarimeters
- 4 Bragg crystal polarimeters
- 5 X-ray polarimetry with the photon-counting pixel detector Timepix
- 6 High-energy polarized photon interactions with matter: simulations with Geant4
- 7 The GPD as a polarimeter: theory and facts
- 8 Ideal gas electron multipliers (GEMs) for X-ray polarimeters
- 9 Broad-band soft X-ray polarimetry
- 10 Feasibility of X-ray photoelectric polarimeters with large field of view
- 11 Angular resolution of a photoelectric polarimeter
- 12 Development of a Thomson X-ray polarimeter
- 13 Hard X-ray / soft gamma-ray polarimetry using a Laue lens
- Part II Polarized emission in X-ray sources
- Part III Future missions
- Author index
- Subject index
11 - Angular resolution of a photoelectric polarimeter
from Part I - Polarimetry techniques
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 X-ray polarimetry: historical remarks and other considerations
- Part I Polarimetry techniques
- 2 Scattering polarimetry in high-energy astronomy
- 3 Photoelectric polarimeters
- 4 Bragg crystal polarimeters
- 5 X-ray polarimetry with the photon-counting pixel detector Timepix
- 6 High-energy polarized photon interactions with matter: simulations with Geant4
- 7 The GPD as a polarimeter: theory and facts
- 8 Ideal gas electron multipliers (GEMs) for X-ray polarimeters
- 9 Broad-band soft X-ray polarimetry
- 10 Feasibility of X-ray photoelectric polarimeters with large field of view
- 11 Angular resolution of a photoelectric polarimeter
- 12 Development of a Thomson X-ray polarimeter
- 13 Hard X-ray / soft gamma-ray polarimetry using a Laue lens
- Part II Polarized emission in X-ray sources
- Part III Future missions
- Author index
- Subject index
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- X-ray PolarimetryA New Window in Astrophysics, pp. 79 - 82Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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