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astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

Simulations studies for the Mini-EUSO detector

H. Miyamoto, F. Fenu, D. Barghini +31

Mini-EUSO is a mission of the JEM-EUSO program flying onboard the International Space Station since August 2019. Since the first data acquisition in October 2019, more than 35 sess…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 45 cited

An algorithm to calibrate and correct the response to unpolarized radiation of the X-ray polarimeter on board IXPE

John Rankin, Fabio Muleri, Allyn F. Tennant +18

The Gas Pixel Detector is an X-ray polarimeter to fly on-board IXPE and other missions. To correctly measure the source polarization, the response of IXPE's GPDs to unpolarized rad…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

LEXT: a lobster eye optic for Gamow

Charlotte Feldman, Paul O'Brien, Nicholas White +5

The Lobster Eye X-ray Telescope (LEXT) is one of the payloads on-board the Gamow Explorer, which will be proposed to the 2021 NASA Explorer MIDEX opportunity. If approved, it will…

astro-ph.IM2021

CanariCam Mid-Infrared Drift Scanning: Improved Sensitivity and Spatial Resolution

Amílcar R. Torres-Quijano, Christopher Packham, Sergio Fernandez Acosta

Ground-based mid-infrared (MIR) astronomical observations require the removal of the fast time variable components of (a) sky/background variation and (b) array background. Typical…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 21 cited

Ultraviolet Spectropolarimetry: on the origin of rapidly rotating B stars

C. E. Jones, J. Labadie-Bartz, D. V. Cotton +12

UV spectroscopy and spectropolarimetry hold the key to understanding certain aspects of massive stars that are largely inaccessible with optical or longer wavelength observations.…

astro-ph.IM2021

Overview of Cherenkov Telescope on-board EUSO-SPB2 for the Detection of Very-High-Energy Neutrinos

Mahdi Bagheri, Peter Bertone, Ivan Fontane +12

We present the status of the development of a Cherenkov telescope to be flown on a long-duration balloon flight, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EU…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Calibration of the MaGIXS experiment II: Flight Instrument Calibration

P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Patrick Champey +21

The Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS) is a sounding rocket experiment that observes the soft X-ray spectrum of the Sun from 6.0 - 24 Angstrom (0.5 - 2.0 keV),…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 142 cited

Design, Construction, and Test of the Gas Pixel Detectors for the IXPE Mission

L. Baldini, M. Barbanera, R. Bellazzini +91

Due to be launched in late 2021, the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer mission designed to perform polarization measurements in the 2-8 keV band, c…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

The Effect of Mission Duration on LISA Science Objectives

Pau Amaro Seoane, Manuel Arca Sedda, Stanislav Babak +38

The science objectives of the LISA mission have been defined under the implicit assumption of a 4 yr continuous data stream. Based on the performance of LISA Pathfinder, it is now…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 127 cited

Characterization of the stochastic signal originating from compact binaries populations as measured by LISA

Nikolaos Karnesis, Stanislav Babak, Mauro Pieroni +2

The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) mission, scheduled for launch in the early 2030s, is a gravitational wave observatory in space designed to detect sources emitting in…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

DarpanX: A Python Package for Modeling X-ray Reflectivity of Multilayer Mirrors

Biswajit Mondal, Santosh V. Vadawale, N. P. S. Mithun +8

Multilayer X-ray mirrors consist of a coating of a large number of alternate layers of high Z and low Z materials with a typical thickness of 10-100 Angstrom, on a suitable substra…