The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a future CubeSat mission orbiting the Earth aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band, by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP will allow us to study the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the flaring magnetic structures of our star. The project is in the framework of the Italian Space Agency Alcor Program, which aims to develop new CubeSat missions. CUSP is approved for a Phase B study that will last for 12 months, starting in mid-2024. We report on the current status of the CUSP mission project as the outcome of the Phase A.
@article{arxiv.2407.04748,
title = {The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission overview},
author = {Sergio Fabiani and Ettore Del Monte and Ilaria Baffo and Sergio Bonomo and Daniele Brienza and Riccardo Campana and Mauro Centrone and Gessica Contini and Enrico Costa and Giovanni Cucinella and Andrea Curatolo and Nicolas De Angelis and Giovanni De Cesare and Andrea Del Re and Sergio Di Cosimo and Simone Di Filippo and Alessandro Di Marco and Giuseppe Di Persio and Immacolata Donnarumma and Pierluigi Fanelli and Paolo Leonetti and Alfredo Locarini and Pasqualino Loffredo and Giovanni Lombardi and Gabriele Minervini and Dario Modenini and Fabio Muleri and Silvia Natalucci and Andrea Negri and Massimo Perelli and Monia Rossi and Alda Rubini and Emanuele Scalise and Paolo Soffitta and Andrea Terracciano and Paolo Tortora and Emauele Zaccagnino and Alessandro Zambardi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.04748},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
Proceeding of SPIE Conference "Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation", Yokohama (Japan), 16-21 June 2024. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2208.06211