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EP: Fachverband Extraterrestrische Physik

EP 6: Astrophysics

EP 6.3: Vortrag

Mittwoch, 23. März 2022, 11:45–12:00, EP-H1

ComPol - A Compton polarimeter in a Nanosat — •Matthias Meier for the ComPol collaboration — Excellence Cluster ORIGINS, Garching, Germany — Technical University of Munich (TUM), Munich, Germany — Max-Planck Institute for Physics (MPP), Munich, Germany

The possibilities to investigate astrophysical compact objects are strongly limited. Due to the small size of these objects it is hardly possible to resolve their geometry. The CubeSat mission ComPol will investigate the black hole binary system Cygnus X-1. The goal is to improve its physical model by measuring the polarization of the hard X-ray spectrum. The information about the polarization can be extracted from the kinematics of the Compton scattering. A Silicon drift detector (SDD) is used as a scatterer. The SDD is stacked onto a CeBr3 calorimeter to be able to measure the full kinematics.

The talk will give an overview of the scientific motivation, the underlying physics and the detector setup.

This research was supported by the Excellence Cluster ORIGINS which is funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) under Germany's Excellence Strategy - EXC-2094-390783311