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Polarimetry

Although designed primarily as a hard X-ray imager and spectrometer, RHESSI is also capable of measuring the polarization of hard X-rays from solar flares.

RHESSI as a Hard X-Ray Polarimeter (from Solar Physics, Volume 210, Numbers 1-2, November 2002 )

 

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