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X-Ray Polarimetry Workshop SLAC, Stanford, California 9-11 February 2004 |
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PRIZE, The Polarization Explorer
Eric
Silver
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
esilver@cfa.harvard.edu
Eric Silver and the PRIZE team
PRIZE is a small explorer-class satellite that can probe the x-ray polarization properties of collapsed objects spanning a range in mass from neutron stars and stellar mass black holes to super-massive black holes that power active galactic nuclei. PRIZE can determine the geometry of regions too small to be spatially imaged, confront the fundamental physics of accretion onto compact objects, and probe the realm of strong gravity. It can explore the metric of space-time near black holes and the acceleration regions than spawn relativistic jets. PRIZE exploits existing flight qualified hardware that provides high effective area over a broad energy range to enable sensitive, energy-resolved polarization measurements between 2.6 keV and 16 keV.
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Jennifer Formichelli |
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