Measurement and simulation of charge diffusion in a small-pixel charge-coupled device

BJ LaMarr, GY Prigozhin, ED Miller… - Journal of …, 2022 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Future high-resolution imaging x-ray observatories may require detectors with both fine
spatial resolution and high quantum efficiency at relatively high x-ray energies (E≥ 5 keV) …

Toward Constraining Axions with Polarimetric Observations of the Isolated Neutron Star RX J1856. 5–3754

A Zhuravlev, R Taverna, R Turolla - The Astrophysical Journal, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Photon–axion mixing can create observable signatures in the thermal spectra of isolated,
cooling neutron stars. Their shape depends on the polarization properties of the radiation …

Monte Carlo Applications for Partially Polarized Inverse External-Compton Scattering (MAPPIES). II. Application to the UV/Soft X-Ray Excess in Blazar Spectra

L Dreyer, M Böttcher - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of some blazars exhibit an ultraviolet (UV) and/or
soft X-ray excess that can be modeled with different radiation mechanisms. Polarization …

Miniature X-Ray Optics for Meter-Class Focal Length Telescopes

J Hong, S Romaine, VL Kashyap, K Kilaru - … of X-ray and Gamma-ray …, 2022 - Springer
X-ray optics in great observatories such as Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton
have revolutionized not only X-ray astronomy but also astronomy and astrophysics in …