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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

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

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

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

Prototype Development and Calibration of the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP)

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 will allow to study the magnetic reconnection and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-01 Nicolas De Angelis , Abhay Kumar , Sergio Fabiani , Ettore Del Monte , Enrico Costa , Giovanni Lombardi , 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 , 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 , 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

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

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

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

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

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

In-orbit Operation and Performance of the CubeSat Soft X-ray Polarimeter PolarLight

PolarLight is a compact soft X-ray polarimeter onboard a CubeSat, which was launched into a low-Earth orbit on October 29, 2018. In March 2019, PolarLight started full operation, and since then, regular observations with the Crab nebula,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-01-06 Hong Li , Xiangyun Long , Hua Feng , Qiong Wu , Jiahui Huang , Weichun Jiang , Massimo Minuti , Dongxin Yang , Saverio Citraro , Hikmat Nasimi , Jiandong Yu , Ge Jin , Ming Zeng , Peng An , Luca Baldini , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandro Brez , Luca Latronico , Carmelo Sgro , Gloria Spandre , Michele Pinchera , Fabio Muleri , Paolo Soffitta , Enrico Costa

3UCubed: The IMAP Student Collaboration CubeSat Project

The 3UCubed project is a 3U CubeSat being jointly developed by the University of New Hampshire, Sonoma State University, and Howard University as a part of the NASA Interstellar Mapping and Acceleration Probe, IMAP, student collaboration.…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Marcus Alfred , Sonya Smith , Charles Kim , Carissma McGee , Ruth Davis , Myles Pope , Taran Richardson , Trinity Sager , Avery Williams , Matthew Gales , Wilson Jean Baptiste , Tyrese Kierstdet , Oluwatamilore Ogunbanjo , Laura Peticolas , Lynn Cominsky , Garrett Jernigan , Jeffrey Reedy , Doug Clarke , Sabrina Blais , Erik Castellanos-Vasquez , Jack Dawson , Erika Diaz Ramirez , Walter Foster , Cristopher Gopar Carreno , Haley Joerger , Onasis Mora , Alex Vasquez , Sanjeev Mehta , Noé Lugaz , Lindsay Bartolone , Marc Lessard Jenna Burgett , Kelly Bisson , Luke Bradley , Jeffrey Campbell , Mathieu Champagne , Alex Chesley , Jeff Grant , Hanyu Jiang , Jared King , Emily McLain , Matthew Rollend , Shane Woods

The HaloSat and PolarLight CubeSat Missions for X-ray Astrophysics

Astronomical observations in the X-ray band are subject to atmospheric attenuation and have to be performed in the space. CubeSats offer a cost effective means for space-based X-ray astrophysics but allow only limited mass and volume. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-05 Hua Feng , Philip Kaaret

The EarthASAP mission concept for a Lunar orbiting cubesat

There is a growing interest in Lunar exploration fed by the perception that the Moon can be made accessible to low-cost missions in the next decade. The on-going projects to set a communications relay in Lunar orbit and a deep space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-25 Ana I. Gomez de Castro , Leire Beitia-Antero , Carlos E. Miravet-Fuster , Lorenzo Tarabini , Albert Tomas , Juan Carlos Vallejo , Ada Canet , Mikhail Sachkov , Shingo Kameda

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

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

Sun CubE OnE: A Multi-wavelength Synoptic Solar Micro Satellite

The Sun cubE onE (SEE) is a 12U CubeSat mission proposed for a phase A/B study to the Italian Space Agency that will investigate Gamma and X-ray fluxes and ultraviolet (UV) solar emission to support studies in Sun-Earth interaction and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-04 L. Giovannelli , F. Berrilli , M. Casolino , F. Curti , D. Del Moro , D. Calchetti , M. Cantoresi , A. D'Ambrosio , G. Francisco , P. Giobbi , L. Marcelli , P. Mazzotta , R. Mugatwala , G. Pucacco , R. Reda , S. K Dhara , F. Tombesi , D. Blandino , N. Benigno , M. Cilia , A. Di Salvo , V. Di Tana , F. Ingiosi , S. Loddo , M. Marmonti , M. Musazzi , S. Simonetti , G. Truscelli

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