The PoGOLite balloon-borne soft gamma-ray polarimeter

Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy

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Artificial Earth Satellites, X-Ray Binaries, Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts, Magnetic And Electric Fields, Polarization Of Starlight, General, Solar Nebula, Cosmogony, Pulsars, Black Holes, Neutron Stars

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Linearly polarized radiation in the hard X-ray/soft gamma-ray band is expected from a large variety of astronomical sources. We discuss the importance of polarimetric studies for several classes of sources-pulsars, accreting black holes, magnetic neutron stars and jets from active galaxies-and then describe PoGOLite, a balloon-borne instrument which is currently under construction and will be able to measure the polarization of electromagnetic radiation from such extra-solar objects in the energy range 25-80 keV.

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