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Solar Flare Hard X-ray Polarimetry with the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is a CubeSat mission planned for a launch in low-Earth orbit and aimed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Nicolas De Angelis , Andrea Alimenti , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Riccardo Campana , Valerio Campamaggiore , Mauro Centrone , Enrico Costa , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giovanni De Cesare , Giulia de Iulis , Ettore Del Monte , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Sergio Fabiani , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Abhay Kumar , Alessandro Lacerenza , Paolo Leonetti , Pasqualino Loffredo , Giovanni Lombardi , Matteo Mergè , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Fabio Muleri , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Paolo Romano , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Paolo Soffitta , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP): mission overview II

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is an Earth-orbiting CubeSat mission designed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band using a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP will enable the study of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Andrea Alimenti , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Enrico Costa , Nicolas De Angelis , Giovanni De Cesare , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Abhay Kumar , Alessandro Lacerenza , Pasqualino Loffredo , Giovanni Lombardi , Lorenzo Marra , Gabriele Minervini , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Romano , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Paolo Soffitta , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Valerio Campamaggiore , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giulia de Iulis , Andrea Del Re , Vito Di Bari , Simone Di Filippo , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Paolo Leonetti , Matteo Mergè , Dario Modenini , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Francesca Sbop , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission overview

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-09 Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Ilaria Baffo , Sergio Bonomo , Daniele Brienza , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Gessica Contini , Enrico Costa , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Nicolas De Angelis , Giovanni De Cesare , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Alessandro Di Marco , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Paolo Leonetti , Alfredo Locarini , Pasqualino Loffredo , Giovanni Lombardi , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Fabio Muleri , Silvia Natalucci , Andrea Negri , Massimo Perelli , Monia Rossi , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Paolo Soffitta , Andrea Terracciano , Paolo Tortora , Emauele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi

CUSP: a two cubesats constellation for Space Weather and solar flares X-ray polarimetry

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project aims to develop a constellation of two CubeSats orbiting the Earth to measure the linear polarisation of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter on board…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-15 Sergio Fabiani , Ilaria Baffo , Sergio Bonomo , Gessica Contini , Enrico Costa , Giovanni Cucinella , Giovanni De Cesare , Ettore Del Monte , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Alessandro Di Marco , Pierluigi Fanelli , Fabio La Monaca , Alfredo Locarini , Pasqualino Loffredo , Giovanni Lombardi , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Fabio Muleri , Andrea Negri , Massimo Perelli , John Rankin , Alda Rubini , Paolo Soffitta , Eliseo Strollo , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Zambardi

CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) Sensitivity Estimation and Performance Optimization using Geant4

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the 25-100 keV X-ray band using a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP will allow us to study the magnetic reconnection and particle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-04 Abhay Kumar , Giovanni Lombardi , Giovanni De Cesare , Nicolas De Angelis , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Andrea Alimenti , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Costa , Paolo Soffitta , Mauro Centrone , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Alessandro Lacerenza , Pasqualino Loffredo , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Romano , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Valerio Campamaggiore , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giulia de Iulis , Andrea Del Re , Vito Di Bari , Simone Di Filippo , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Paolo Leonetti , Matteo Merge , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Francesca Sbop , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

The multi-physics analysis, design and testing of CUSP, a CubeSat mission for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry

The space-based CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a project in the framework of the Alcor Program of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Giovanni Lombardi , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Andrea Alimenti , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Enrico Costa , Nicolas De Angelis , Giovanni De Cesare , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Abhay Kumar , Alessandro Lacerenza , Pasqualino Loffredo , Gabriele Minervini , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Romano , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Paolo Soffitta , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Valerio Campamaggiore , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giulia de Iulis , Andrea Del Re , Vito Di Bari , Simone Di Filippo , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Paolo Leonetti , Matteo Merge , Dario Modenini , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Francesca Sbop , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

The multi$-$physics analysis and design of CUSP, a two CubeSat constellation for Space Weather and Solar flares X-ray polarimetry

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project aims to develop a constellation of two CubeSats orbiting the Earth to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter on board…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Giovanni Lombardi , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Enrico Costa , Paolo Soffitta , Fabio Muleri , Ilaria Baffo , Marco E. Biancolini , Sergio Bonomo , Daniele Brienza , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Gessica Contini , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Nicolas De Angelis , Giovanni De Cesare , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Alessandro Di Marco , Emanuele Di Meo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Paolo Leonetti , Alfredo Locarini , Pasqualino Loffredo , Andrea Lopez , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Silvia Natalucci , Andrea Negri , Massimo Perelli , Monia Rossi , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Andrea Terracciano , Paolo Tortora , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi

Study of the HV power supply modules for the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP)

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Alessandro Lacerenza , Alda Rubini , Andrea Alimenti , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Enrico Costa , Nicolas De Angelis , Giovanni De Cesare , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Abhay Kumar , Pasqualino Loffredo , Giovanni Lombardi , Gabriele Minervini , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Romano , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Paolo Soffitta , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Valerio Campamaggiore , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giulia de Iulis , Andrea Del Re , Vito Di Bari , Simone Di Filippo , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Paolo Leonetti , Matteo Merge , Dario Modenini , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Francesca Sbop , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

The evaluation of the CUSP scientific performance by a GEANT4 Monte Carlo simulation

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 Giovanni De Cesare , Sergio Fabiani , Riccardo Campana , Giovanni Lombardi , Ettore Del Monte , Enrico Costa , Ilaria Baffo , Sergio Bonomo , Daniele Brienza , Mauro Centrone , Gessica Contini , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Nicolas De Angelis , Andrea Del Re , Sergio Di Cosimo , Simone Di Filippo , Alessandro Di Marco , Giuseppe Di Persio , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Paolo Leonetti , Alfredo Locarini , Pasqualino Loffredo , Gabriele Minervini , Dario Modenini , Fabio Muleri , Silvia Natalucci , Andrea Negri , Massimo Perelli , Monia Rossi , Alda Rubini , Emanuele Scalise , Paolo Soffitta , Andrea Terracciano , Paolo Tortora , Emauele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi

Characterization of avalanche photodiodes (APDs) for the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission

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 the study of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-08 F. Cologgi , A. Alimenti , S. Fabiani , K. Torokthii , E. Silva , E. Del Monte , I. Baffo , S. Bonomo , D. Brienza , R. Campana , M. Centrone , G. Contini , E. Costa , A. Curatolo , G. Cucinella , N. DevAngelis , G. De Cesare , A. Del Re , S. Di Cosimo , S. Di Filippo , A. Di Marco , G. Di Persio , I. Donnarumma , P. Fanelli , P. Leonetti , A. Locarini , P. Loffredo , G. Lombardi , G. Minervini , D. Modenini , F. Muleri , S. Natalucci , A. Nigri , M. Perelli , M. Rossi , A. Rubini , E. Scalise , P. Soffitta , C. Terracciano , P. Tortora , E. Zaccagnino , A. Zambardi

Spectral performance of single-channel plastic and GAGG scintillator bars of the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP)

Our Sun is the closest X-ray astrophysical source to Earth. As such, it makes a formidable case study to better understand astrophysical processes. Solar flares are in particular very interesting as they are linked to coronal mass ejections…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-14 Nicolas De Angelis , Abhay Kumar , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Enrico Costa , Giovanni Lombardi , Alda Rubini , Paolo Soffitta , Andrea Alimenti , Riccardo Campana , Mauro Centrone , Giovanni De Cesare , Sergio Di Cosimo , Giuseppe Di Persio , Alessandro Lacerenza , Pasqualino Loffredo , Gabriele Minervini , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Romano , Emanuele Scalise , Enrico Silva , Davide Albanesi , Ilaria Baffo , Daniele Brienza , Valerio Campomaggiore , Giovanni Cucinella , Andrea Curatolo , Giulia de Iulis , Andrea Del Re , Vito Di Bari , Simone Di Filippo , Immacolata Donnarumma , Pierluigi Fanelli , Nicolas Gagliardi , Paolo Leonetti , Matteo Mergè , Dario Modenini , Andrea Negri , Daniele Pecorella , Massimo Perelli , Alice Ponti , Francesca Sbop , Paolo Tortora , Alessandro Turchi , Valerio Vagelli , Emanuele Zaccagnino , Alessandro Zambardi , Costantino Zazza

Developing a Compton Polarimeter to Measure Polarization of Hard X-Rays in the 50-300 keV Energy Range

This paper discusses the latest progress in the development of GRAPE (Gamma-Ray Polarimeter Experiment), a hard X-ray Compton Polarimeter. The purpose of GRAPE is to measure the polarization of hard X-rays in the 50-300 keV energy range. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 J. S. Legere , P. Bloser , J. R. Macri , M. L. McConnell , T. Narita , J. M. Ryan

Concept study of a small Compton polarimeter to fly on a CubeSat

Application of cubesats in astronomical observations has been getting more and more mature in recent years. Here we report a concept study of a small Compton polarimeter to fly on a cubesat for observing polarization of soft gamma-rays from…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-11-18 Yi-Chi Chang , Chien-Ying Yang , Hung-Hsiang Liang , Che-Yen Chu , Jeng-Lun Chiu , Chih-Hsun Lin , Philippe Laurent , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with the COMCUBE-S CubeSat Swarm -- Design and Performance Simulations

COMCUBE-S (COMCUBE-S (Compton Telescope CubeSat Swarm) is a proposed mission aimed at understanding the radiation mechanisms of ultra-relativistic jets from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). It consists of a swarm of 16U CubeSats carrying a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-10 Nathan Franel , Vincent Tatischeff , David Murphy , Alexey Ulyanov , Caimin McKenna , Lorraine Hanlon , Prerna Baranwal , Christophe Beigbeder , Arnaud Claret , Ion Cojocari , Nicolas de Séréville , Nicolas Dosme , Eric Doumayrou , Mariya Georgieva , Clarisse Hamadache , Sally Hankache , Jimmy Jeglot , Mózsi Kiss , Beng-Yun Ky , Vincent Lafage , Philippe Laurent , Christine Le Galliard , Joseph Mangan , Aline Meuris , Mark Pearce , Jean Peyré , Arjun Poitaya , Diana Renaud , Arnaud Saussac , Varun Varun , Matias Vecchio , Colin Wade

PolarLight: a CubeSat X-ray Polarimeter based on the Gas Pixel Detector

The gas pixel detector (GPD) is designed and developed for high-sensitivity astronomical X-ray polarimetry, which is a new window about to open in a few years. Due to the small mass, low power, and compact geometry of the GPD, we propose a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-10 Hua Feng , Weichun Jiang , Massimo Minuti , Qiong Wu , Aera Jung , Dongxin Yang , Saverio Citraro , Hikmat Nasimi , Jiandong Yu , Ge Jin , Jiahui Huang , Ming Zeng , Peng An , Luca Baldini , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Luca Latronico , Carmelo Sgrò , Gloria Spandre , Michele Pinchera , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa

Feasibility of Observing Gamma-ray Polarization from Cygnus X-1 Using a CubeSat

Instruments flown on CubeSats are small. Meaningful applications of CubeSats in astronomical observations rely on the choice of a particular subject that is feasible for CubeSats. Here we report the result of a feasibility study for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-15 Chien-Ying Yang , Yi-Chi Chang , Hung-Hsiang Liang , Che-Yen Chu , Jr-Yue Hsiang , Jeng-Lun Chiu , Chih-Hsun Lin , Philippe Laurent , Jerome Rodriguez , Hsiang-Kuang Chang

POLAR: A Space-borne X-Ray Polarimeter for Transient Sources

POLAR is a novel compact Compton X-ray polarimeter designed to measure the linear polarization of the prompt emission of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) and other strong transient sources such as soft gamma repeaters and solar flares in the energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-21 Silvio Orsi

In-flight energy calibration of the space-borne Compton polarimeter POLAR

POLAR is a compact wide-field space-borne detector for precise measurements of the linear polarisation of hard X-rays emitted by transient sources in the energy range from 50 keV to 500 keV. It consists of a 40$\times$40 array of plastic…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2018-08-01 Hualin Xiao , Wojtek Hajdas , Bobing Wu , Nicolas Produit , Jianchao Sun , Merlin Kole , Tianwei Bao , Tancredi Bernasconi , Tadeusz Batsch , Franck Cadoux , Junying Chai , Yongwei Dong , Ken Egli , Neal Gauvin , Minnan Kong , Reinhold Kramert , Siwei Kong , Hancheng Li , Lu Li , Zhengheng Li , Jiangtao Liu , Xin Liu , Radoslaw Marcinkowski , Silvio Orsi , Dominik K. Rybka , Martin Pohl , Haoli Shi , Liming Song , Shaolin Xiong , Jacek Szabelski , Patryk Socha , Ruijie Wang , Yuanhao Wang , Xing Wen , Xin Wu , Laiyu Zhang , Ping Zhang , Shuangnan Zhang , Xiaofeng Zhang , Yongjie Zhang , Yi Zhao , Anna Zwolinska

Building SPARCS, an Ultraviolet Science CubeSat for Exoplanet Habitability Studies, Technology Advancements, and Mission Training

The Star-Planet Activity Research CubeSat (SPARCS) is a NASA-funded 6U-CubeSat mission designed to monitor ultraviolet (UV) radiation from low-mass stars. These stars' relatively high-frequency and high-energy UV flares significantly affect…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Evgenya L. Shkolnik , David R. Ardila , Logan Jensen , April D. Jewell , Tahina Ramiaramanantsoa , Judd Bowman , Daniel Jacobs , Paul Scowen , Christophe Basset , Johnathan Gamaunt , Dawn Gregory , Maria C. Ladwig , Matthew Kolopanis , Shouleh Nikzad , Nathaniel Struebel , Joe Llama , Mary Knapp , Sarah Peacock , Titu Samson , Mark Swain

Polarization studies with NuSTAR

The capability of NuSTAR to detect polarization in the Compton scattering regime (>50 keV) has been investigated. The NuSTAR mission, flown on June 2012 a Low Earth Orbit (LEO), provides a unique possibility to confirm the findings of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Simone Lotti , Lorenzo Natalucci , Paolo Giommi , B. Grefenstette , Fiona A. Harrison , Kristin K. Madsen , Matteo Perri , Simonetta Puccetti , Andreas Zoglauer