NASA’s IXPE Team Awarded Prestigious Rossi Prize: Advancing X-ray Polarimetry in Astrophysics
NASA's IXPE Team Awarded Prestigious Rossi Prize
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The High Energy Astrophysics Division of the American Astronomical Society (AAS) has awarded the 2024 Bruno Rossi Prize to NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) team.
The Rossi Prize is a prestigious award in high-energy astronomy and is given to individuals or teams for outstanding contributions to the field.
The IXPE team was recognized for their work in developing a cutting-edge X-ray telescope that can measure the polarization of cosmic X-rays, which provides valuable insights into the behavior of black holes and neutron stars.
The team consists of retired NASA astrophysicist Martin Weisskopf and the Italian Space Agency principal investigator, Paolo Soffitta, along with several other team members from NAS...