The gas pixel detector as a solar X-ray polarimeter and imager

Details The gas pixel detector as a solar X-ray polarimeter and imager The gas pixel detector as a solar X-ray polarimeter and imager

2011-11-28

arxiv.org/abs/1111.6391v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

J. Adv. Space Res. (2011)

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.asr.2011.09.003

The Sun is the nearest astrophysical source with a very intense emission in the X-ray band. The study of energetic events, such as solar flares, can help us to understand the behaviour of the magnetic field of our star. There are in the literature numerous studies published about polarization predictions, for a wide range of solar flares models involving the emission from thermal and/or non-thermal processes, but observations in the X-ray band have never been exhaustive. The gas pixel detector (GPD) was designed to achieve X-ray polarimetric measurements as well as X-ray images for far astrophysical sources. Here we present the possibility to employ this instrument for the observation of our Sun in the X-ray band.

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