CUSP: a two CubeSats constellation for space weather and solar flares x-ray polarimetry
- Fabiani, Sergio
- Baffo, ilaria
- Bonomo, Sergio
- Contini, Gessica
- Costa, Enrico
- Cucinella, Giovanni
- De Cesare, Giovanni
- Del Monte, Ettore
- Del Re, Andrea
- Di Cosimo, Sergio
- Di Filippo, Simone
- Di Marco, Alessandro
- Fanelli, Pierluigi
- La Monaca, Fabio
- Locarini, Alfredo
- Loffredo, Pasqualino
- Lombardi, Giovanni
- Minervini, Gabriele
- Modenini, Dario
- Muleri, Fabio
- Negri, Andrea
- Perelli, Massimo
- Rankin, John
- Rubini, Alda
- Soffitta, Paolo
- Strollo, Eliseo
- Tortora, Paolo
- Zambardi, Alessandro
DOIAbstract
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
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