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X-Ray Polarimetry With X-Calibur, Qingzhen Guo
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X-Ray Polarimetry with X-Calibur
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Qingzhen Guo
Doctor of Philosophy in Physics, Washington University in St. Louis,
September, 2014. Professor Henric Krawczynski, Chair
X-ray polarimetry is a prime tool to investigate the unexplored compact sources and to provide crucial information that other techniques can not produce. By measuring the degree and orientation of the polarization of radiation from a cosmic source, unique inferences about the morphology and the magnetic field structure can be made.
Krawczysnki's group at Washington University is working on a uniquely sensitive scattering polarimeter, X-Calibur, to be used in the focal plane of a focusing X-ray …