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Searching for Gravitational Wave Events Counterparts in X-Rays by Tilting the Multiple Shells of Wolter-I Optics
John Rankin, Daniele Spiga, Paolo Conconi +5
Current X-ray telescopes have a combination of field of view and angular resolution that makes it difficult to quickly localize the electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wa…
EXPO: a quantum leap in fast, wide-band X-ray polarimetry for astrophysics
Paolo Soffitta, Sebastien Guillot, Ian Hutchinson +137
The Enhanced X-ray Polarimetry Observatory (EXPO) is a mission concept proposed to ESA as an M8 candidate, with a prospective launch in 2041. Building on the scientific success of…
Introducing The SHell misAlignment Detection for straylight Estimation (SHADE) algorithm: the case of XMM-Newton
S. Piscitelli, G. Ponti, M. Civitani +1
When performing X-ray observations with a Wolter-I telescope, the presence of bright off-axis sources can introduce unfocused rays, known as straylight, which contaminate the detec…
Study of Lobster and Kirkpatrick-Baez Designs for a Small Mission dedicated to Gravitational Wave Transient Localization
John Rankin, Sergio Campana, Giovanni Pareschi +5
The localization of X-ray counterparts to gravitational wave events requires a telescope with accurate localization capability in a field of view comparable to the region constrain…
The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy
Mike Cruise, Matteo Guainazzi, James Aird +16
Large X-ray observatories such as Chandra and XMM-Newton have been delivering scientific breakthroughs in research fields as diverse as our Solar System, the astrophysics of stars,…
Towards imaging-spectro-polarimetry of solar flares in the X-rays
Sergio Fabiani, John Rankin, Stefano Basso +19
X-ray polarimetry of solar flares is still a not well established field of observation of our star. Past polarimeters were not able to measure with a high significance the polariza…