A user meet for X-ray Polarimeter Satellite (XPoSat), India’s polarimetry mission aimed at studying various dynamics of astronomical sources in extreme conditions is scheduled to be held on Thursday. The meet will be streamed live from the ISRO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/ISRO and ISRO website https://www.isro.gov.in.
XPoSat will carry two scientific payloads, Polarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray Spectroscopy and Timing (SPECT) in a low Earth orbit.
POLIX payload will enable the measurement of polarimetry parameters such as the degree and angle of polarization in the medium X-ray energy range of 8-30 keV photons originating from astronomical sources.