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2022 Spring Virtual Workshop
May 23-25th, 9:00 am – 12:00 EDT
We are pleased to announce that our 2022 IACHEC workshop will be happening this May, and that the program is now available.
Important dates
- Registration: May 18th, 2022
Fall 2021 Plenary: The X-ray Polarimeter Mission XPoSat
November 16 , 9am - 10am EST
The X-ray Polarimeter Mission XPoSat
Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute)
XPoSat (X-ray Polarimeter Satellite) is a mission dedicated for study of polarisation of cosmic X-ray sources. The X-ray polarisation measurements will be carried out with a Thomson scattering X-ray polarimeter instrument POLIX and simultaneous timing and spectroscopic measurements will be carried out with a co-aligned semiconductor based X-ray detectors system XSPECT. Energy bands of the two X-ray instruments are 8-30 keV for POLIX and 0.8-15.0 for XSEPCT. The polarisation measurement will be performed using anisotropic Thomson scattering of polarized X-rays and this will be enabled by spinning the satellite around the viewing axis of POLIX during the source observations. Being a dedicated X-ray polarisation mission in this unexplored energy band, XPoSat is poised to give us glimpses of a new frontier in high energy astrophysics and also allow many in-depth investigations of astrophysical processes in neutron stars and black hole sources. The instrument designs, some special aspects of the mission, and some of the key scientific issues will be discussed.
Fall WG meeting, November 8-10th, 2021
Date: November 8 – 10th, (9:00-11:00 EST/14:00-16:00 UTC)
We are very pleased to announce our second Working Group meeting this year. At the meeting, the Working Groups will report on the their progress and future plans, and we invite everyone to come join in our discussions and look forward to hearing from you. For more details on the meeting and how to join please see https://iachec.org/fall-virtual-meeting-2021/
We are also very pleased to announce our Fall Plenary: November 16th (9:00 – 10:00 EST/14:00 – 15:00 UTC)
The X-ray Polarimeter Mission XPoSat by Biswajit Paul (Raman Research Institute).
XPoSat is a mission dedicated for the study of polarization of cosmic X-ray sources. See full abstract.