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Zhu, Jiahuan; Li, Hong; Feng, Hua; Huang, Jiahui; Long, Xiangyun; Wu, Qiong; Jiang, Weichun; Minuti, Massimo; Citraro, Saverio; Nasimi, Hikmat; Yang, Dongxin; Yu, Jiandong; Ge, Jin; Zeng, Ming; Peng, An; Baldini, Luca; Bellazzini, Ronaldo; Brez, Alessandro; Latronico, Luca; Sgro, Carmelo; Spandre, Gloria; Pinchera, Michele; Muleri, Fabio; Soffitta, Paolo; Costa, Enrico
arXiv.org, 05/2021Paper, Journal Article
PolarLight is a space-borne X-ray polarimeter that measures the X-ray polarization via electron tracking in an ionization chamber. It is a collimated instrument and thus suffers from the background on the whole detector plane. The majority of background events are induced by high energy charged particles and show ionization morphologies distinct from those produced by X-rays of interest. Comparing on-source and off-source observations, we find that the two datasets display different distributions on image properties. The boundaries between the source and background distributions are obtained and can be used for background discrimination. Such a means can remove over 70% of the background events measured with PolarLight. This approaches the theoretical upper limit of the background fraction that is removable and justifies its effectiveness. For observations with the Crab nebula, the background contamination decreases from 25% to 8% after discrimination, indicative of a polarimetric sensitivity of around 0.2 Crab for PolarLight. This work also provides insights into future X-ray polarimetric telescopes.
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