CUSP: a two CubeSats constellation for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
Date Issued
2022
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Baffo, Ilaria
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Bonomo, Sergio
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Contini, Gessica
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Cucinella, Giovanni
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Del Re, Andrea
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Fanelli, Pierluigi
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Locarini, Alfredo
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Modenini, Dario
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Negri, Andrea
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Perelli, Massimo
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Strollo, Eliseo
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Tortora, Paolo
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Zambardi, Alessandro
Abstract
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 of each satellite. CUSP will allow to study the magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration in the flaring magnetic structures. CUSP is a project approved for a Phase A study by the Italian Space Agency in the framework of the Alcor program aimed to develop CubeSat technologies and missions.
Coverage
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
All editors
den Herder, Jan-Willem A.; Nikzad, Shouleh; Nakazawa, Kazuhiro
Series
Volume
12181
Start page
121810J
Conferenece
Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2022: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
Conferenece place
Montréal, Québec, Canada
Conferenece date
17-23 July, 2022
Issn Identifier
0277-786X
Ads BibCode
2022SPIE12181E..0JF
Rights
open.access
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