IXMASTER Catalog
Launched in late 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a
NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency
(ASI). The mission measures X-ray polarization from compact objects such as
neutron stars and black holes, which serve as laboratories for exploring
extreme gravitational and magnetic fields. With its imaging capabilities,
IXPE will also map the magnetic-field structure of a few extended sources
such as supernova remnants and pulsar wind nebulae.
This table contains a list of (a) unobserved targets that are planned for
observation by IXPE in the future and (b) IXPE observations which have been
processed and successfully validated by the IXPE team. The data from these
observations may or may not be public and the user should check the value of
the public_date parameter to determine the status of a specified data set.
Only those ObsIDs which have a public_date in the past will have data
publicly available. Observations with a public_date parameter value which is
either blank or a date in the future have been ingested into the HEASARC
archive but will remain encrypted until their public date.
