The gas pixel detector as a solar X-ray polarimeter and imager |
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Authors: | Sergio Fabiani Enrico CostaRonaldo Bellazzini Alessandro BrezSergio Di Cosimo Francesco LazzarottoFabio Muleri Alda RubiniPaolo Soffitta Gloria Spandre |
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Affiliation: | a INAF-IASF Roma, Via del Fosso del Cavaliere 100, 00133 Rome, Italy b Università di Roma ‘Tor Vergata’, Dipartimento di Fisica, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy c Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Largo B. Pontecorvo 3, I-56127 Pisa, Italy |
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Abstract: | 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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Keywords: | Polarimetry Sun Solar flares X-ray |
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