The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a 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 to study the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the flaring magnetic structures of our star. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of the Italian Space Agency aimed to develop new CubeSat missions. It is approved for a Phase B study. In this work, we report on the accurate simulation of the detector's response to evaluate the scientific performance. A GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation is used to assess the physical interactions of the source photons with the detector and the passive materials. Using this approach, we implemented a detailed CUSP Mass Model. In this work, we report on the evaluation of the detector's effective area as a function of the beam energy.
@article{arxiv.2407.04134,
title = {The evaluation of the CUSP scientific performance by a GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation},
author = {Giovanni De Cesare and Sergio Fabiani and Riccardo Campana and Giovanni Lombardi and Ettore Del Monte and Enrico Costa and Ilaria Baffo and Sergio Bonomo and Daniele Brienza and Mauro Centrone and Gessica Contini and Giovanni Cucinella and Andrea Curatolo and Nicolas De Angelis 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 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:2407.04134},
year = {2024}
}
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Proceeding of SPIE Conference "Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation", Yokohama (Japan), 16-21 June 2024