As X-ray polarimetry is entering in a golden age thanks to the technological maturity of polarimeters involving Gas Pixel Detectors, a simulation of an observation of the radio galaxy Centaurus A with the upcoming IXPE space telescope is here presented. Centaurus A is the nearest AGN and is included in the observing plan of IXPE that will provide for the first time the spatially resolved polarimetric study in the X-ray domain of its relativistic jet, enabling the study of the particle acceleration process. The polarimetric properties of different physical processes have been simulated and the results discussed in light of the Minimum Detectable Polarization (MDP). The outcome of this work will be presented in view of the IXPE observing plan in preparation.

Simulation of an IXPE observation of Centaurus A / Ferrazzoli, Riccardo; Donnarumma, Immacolata. - (2019). (Intervento presentato al convegno Extreme19 tenutosi a Padova, Italy).

Simulation of an IXPE observation of Centaurus A

Riccardo Ferrazzoli
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2019

Abstract

As X-ray polarimetry is entering in a golden age thanks to the technological maturity of polarimeters involving Gas Pixel Detectors, a simulation of an observation of the radio galaxy Centaurus A with the upcoming IXPE space telescope is here presented. Centaurus A is the nearest AGN and is included in the observing plan of IXPE that will provide for the first time the spatially resolved polarimetric study in the X-ray domain of its relativistic jet, enabling the study of the particle acceleration process. The polarimetric properties of different physical processes have been simulated and the results discussed in light of the Minimum Detectable Polarization (MDP). The outcome of this work will be presented in view of the IXPE observing plan in preparation.
2019
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