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But there are two other parameters that we could look at if we only had

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the tools to do that. And those have to do with the polarization of

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the degree of polarization and the position

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angle. The angle associated with the polarization. So

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by doing this mission we’re opening up two more degrees

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of freedom to be able to try to understand how are

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the x-rays produced, what are the models. We have to be able to predict

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the polarization that we will turn out to measure. So it’s really exciting.

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[slate] Our science

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group has studied, we have seven different teams of studying

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different classes. So for example the

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radio pulsars, supernova remnants

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etcetera. And so we have, we’re going to be looking at seven different

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classes and several examples of those classes.

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So that we get a good preliminary survey of what polarization

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You say “well I’m not interested in that,” you know maybe polarization

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might be interesting. Maybe it won’t be. Let’s wait and see what some mission

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tells us. So IXPE is the "let’s wait and see" what some mission

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tells us finally.

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I look at IXPE as being the

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first real mission that has capability of measuring

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polarization to the reasonable degree of accuracy

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so that we can look at

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dozens to maybe a hundred different sources and really look at different classes

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and try to understand how big a role it’s playing.

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