{"id":7777,"date":"2024-01-16T18:40:46","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/isro-verifies-xposats-payload-performance-with-cassiopeia-a-supernova-observation\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T18:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T10:40:46","slug":"isro-verifies-xposats-payload-performance-with-cassiopeia-a-supernova-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/isro-verifies-xposats-payload-performance-with-cassiopeia-a-supernova-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"ISRO Verifies XPoSat&#8217;s Payload Performance with Cassiopeia A Supernova Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1705380011814_638409768175952394.png\" width=\"712\" height=\"386\" alt=\"ISRO Verifies XPoSat's Payload Performance with Cassiopeia A Supernova Observation\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1705380011814_638409768175952394.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1705380011814_638409768175952394.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"712\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"386\"><\/p>\n<p>The XSPECT payload on <strong>ISRO&#8217;s<\/strong> <strong>XPoSat<\/strong>, India&#8217;s first X-ray polarimetric mission l<span style=\"color: rgb(65, 65, 65); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; white-space: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; display: inline !important; float: none;\">aunched on January 1, 2024<\/span>, captured its first light from the <strong>Cassiopeia A (Cas A)<\/strong> supernova remnant. XPoSat carries two co-aligned instruments, POLarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timing (XSPECT), aimed at unraveling the mysteries of cosmic X-ray sources.<\/p>\n<p>While the POLIX instrument focuses on investigating X-ray polarization in medium-energy X-rays, the XSPECT payload engages in continuous and long-term spectral and temporal studies of X-ray sources in the soft X-ray band.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1705378293692_638409750972327647.png\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr fr-dib\" width=\"457\" style=\"width: 457px; height: 292.366px;\" height=\"292.366\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1705378293692_638409750972327647.png\"><\/p>\n<p>During its performance verification phase, XSPECT was directed towards Cassiopeia A, a standard celestial source used for instrument evaluation. The observation commenced on January 5, 2024, capturing the supernova remnant&#8217;s emission lines corresponding to elements such as Magnesium, Silicon, Sulphur, Argon, Calcium, and Iron.<\/p>\n<p>XSPECT payload is developed by the Space Astronomy Group of U R Rao Satellite Centre (URSC)\/ISRO, Bengaluru. The continuous observations facilitated by XSPECT&#8217;s long-duration capabilities are anticipated to contribute significantly to our understanding of the universe&#8217;s high-energy phenomena.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the launch of PSLV-C58\/XPoSat from Satish Dhawan Space Centre.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"fr-video fr-deletable fr-fvc fr-dvb fr-draggable\" contenteditable=\"false\" draggable=\"true\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H10igyNHsr4?&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" class=\"fr-draggable\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XSPECT payload on ISRO&#8217;s XPoSat, India&#8217;s first X-ray polarimetric mission launched on January 1, 2024, captured its first light from the Cassiopeia A (Cas A) supernova remnant. XPoSat carries two co-aligned instruments, POLarimeter Instrument in X-rays (POLIX) and X-ray SPECtroscopy and Timing (XSPECT), aimed at unraveling the mysteries of cosmic X-ray sources. While the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[26,25,20],"class_list":["post-7777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ground","tag-launch","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}