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

89 citations · 218 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

The Gamma-Ray Monitor onboard the SVOM satellite

Jian-Chao Sun, Yong-Wei Dong, Jiang He +21

The Gamma-Ray Monitor (GRM) is a key scientific payload onboard the Space-based Multi-band Variable Object Monitor (SVOM) satellite, designed specifically for the detection and stu…

astro-ph.HE2026

Prospects of Prompt Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with POLAR-2

Ramandeep Gill, Jiang He, Jonathan Granot +6

The dominant radiation mechanism that powers the prompt -ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) remains poorly understood. High quality, time- and energy-resolved linear polari…

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★ 1 cited

Design and Scientific Prospects of the POLAR-2 Mission

Merlin Kole, Nicolas de Angelis, Jiang He +4

The POLAR-2 mission consists of 3 instruments designed with the combined aim of producing a deeper understanding of Gamma-Ray Bursts. To achieve this, POLAR-2 relies on polarisatio…

astro-ph.HE2025

Gamma-Ray Burst Polarimetry with the POLAR and POLAR-2 missions

Nicolas De Angelis, Philipp Azzarello, Franck Cadoux +15

Gamma-Ray Bursts are among the most powerful and violent events in the Universe. Despite over half a century of observations of these transient sources, many open questions remain…

astro-ph.HE2025

The enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission -- eXTP for launch in 2030

Shuang-Nan Zhang, Andrea Santangelo, Yupeng Xu +155

In this paper we present the current status of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry mission, which has been fully approved for launch in 2030. eXTP is a space science mission…

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.IM2022★ 5 cited

Proton Irradiation of SiPM arrays for POLAR-2

Slawomir Mianowski, Nicolas De Angelis, Johannes Hulsman +12

POLAR-2 is a space-borne polarimeter, built to investigate the polarization of Gamma-Ray Bursts and help elucidate their mechanisms. The instrument is targeted for launch in 2024 o…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Gamma-Ray Polarimetry of the Crab Pulsar Observed by POLAR

Han-Cheng Li, Nicolas Produit, Shuang-Nan Zhang +15

The X/ ray polarimetry of the Crab pulsar/nebula is believed to hold crucial information on their emission models. In the past, several missions have shown evidence of polarized…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 79 cited

The POLAR Gamma-Ray Burst Polarization Catalog

Merlin Kole, Nicolas De Angelis, Francesco Berlato +18

Despite over 50 years of research, many open questions remain about the origin and nature of GRBs. Polarization measurements of the prompt emission of these extreme phenomena have…

astro-ph.IM2019★ 4 cited

Phase-resolved gamma-ray spectroscopy of the Crab pulsar observed by POLAR

Han-Cheng Li, Neal Gauvin, Ming-Yu Ge +15

The POLAR detector is a space based Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) polarimeter sensitive in the 15-500 keV energy range. Apart from its main scientific goal as a Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 89 cited

Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts

Shuang-Nan Zhang, Merlin Kole, Tian-Wei Bao +37

Gamma-ray bursts are the strongest explosions in the Universe since the Big Bang, believed to be produced either in forming black holes at the end of massive star evolution or merg…

astro-ph.IM2019

Observation data pre-processing and scientific data products generation of POLAR

Zheng-Heng Li, Jian-Chao Sun, Li-Ming Song +8

POLAR is a compact space-borne detector initially designed to measure the polarization of hard X-rays emitted from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50-500keV. This instrument w…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 20 cited

In-Orbit Instrument Performance Study and Calibration for POLAR Polarization Measurements

Zhengheng Li, Merlin Kole, Jianchao Sun +30

POLAR is a compact space-borne detector designed to perform reliable measurements of the polarization for transient sources like Gamma-Ray Bursts in the energy range 50-500keV. The…

astro-ph.IM2018★ 3 cited

A Low-latency Pipeline for GRB Light Curve and Spectrum using Fermi/GBM Near Real-time Data

Yi Zhao, Binbin Zhang, Shaolin Xiong +15

Rapid response and short time latency are very important for Time Domain Astronomy, such as the observations of Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and electromagnetic (EM) counterparts of gra…