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most citedDetailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts

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astro-ph.IM2026

PolPy: A universal tool for X-ray/gamma-ray polarimetry using common data format standards

Sujay Mate, Hancheng Li, Utkarsh Pathak +4

X-ray/gamma-ray polarimetry has been a rapidly developing field in recent years. However, the lack of standardized analysis frameworks has hindered cross-instrument comparisons and…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 1 cited

POLAR-2 -- Latest Developments of the Next Generation GRB Polarimeter

Johannes Hulsman, Philipp Azzarello, Joerg Bayer +20

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the most energetic events in the Universe. Despite over 50 years of research and measurements their prompt emission remains poorly understood, wit…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 5 cited

Design and Performance of a Universal SiPM Readout System for X- and Gamma-Ray Missions

Merlin Kole, Nicolas De Angelis, Nicolas Produit +15

The advent of both multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics over the last decade has seen a large interest in the development of small-scale, cheap, and robust gamma-ray detect…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 9 cited

Response of the first POLAR-2 Prototype to Polarized Beams

Merlin Kole, Nicolas de Angelis, Ana Bacelj +15

POLAR-2 is a dedicated gamma-ray polarimeter currently foreseen to be launched towards the China Space Station around 2027. The design of the detector is based on the legacy of its…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 8 cited

POLAR-2, the next generation of GRB polarization detector

Nicolas Produit, Merlin Kole, Xin Wu +9

The POLAR-2 Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) Polarimetry mission is a follow-up to the successful POLAR mission. POLAR collected six months of data in 2016-2017 on board the Tiangong-2 Chines…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 5 cited

Measuring the Cosmic X-ray Background accurately

Hancheng Li, Roland Walter, Nicolas Produit +1

Synthesis models of the diffuse Cosmic X-ray Background (CXB) suggest that it can be resolved into discrete sources, primarily Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). Measuring the CXB accu…