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

142 citations · 179 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.IM2024

FlyEye Ground-Based Telescope: Unveiling New Frontiers in Astronomical Science

Carmelo Arcidiacono, Matteo Simioni, Roberto Ragazzoni +15

The FlyEye design makes its debut in the ESA's NEOSTEL developed by OHB-Italia. This pioneering FlyEye telescope integrates a monolithic 1-meter class primary mirror feeding 16 CCD…

astro-ph.IM2022★ 31 cited

Calibration of the IXPE focal plane X-ray polarimeters to polarized radiation

Alessandro Di Marco, Sergio Fabiani, Fabio La Monaca +80

IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) is a NASA Small Explorer mission -- in partnership with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) -- dedicated to X-ray polarimetry in the 2--8 keV e…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

The Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE): Pre-Launch

Martin C. Weisskopf, Paolo Soffitta, Luca Baldini +155

Scheduled to launch in late 2021, the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) is a NASA Small Explorer Mission in collaboration with the Italian Space Agency (ASI). The mission w…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

The Instrument of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Paolo Soffitta, Luca Baldini, Ronaldo Bellazzini +78

While X-ray Spectroscopy, Timing and Imaging have improved verymuch since 1962, when the first astronomical non-solar source was discovered, especially with the launch of Newton/X-…

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

The X/Gamma-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XGIS) on-board THESEUS: design, main characteristics, and concept of operation

Claudio Labanti, Lorenzo Amati, Filippo Frontera +58

THESEUS is one of the three missions selected by ESA as fifth medium class mission (M5) candidates in its Cosmic Vision science program, currently under assessment in a phase A stu…

astro-ph.IM2021

The XGIS instrument on-board THESEUS: the detection plane and on-board electronics

Fabio Fuschino, Riccardo Campana, Claudio Labanti +32

The X and Gamma Imaging Spectrometer instrument on-board the THESEUS mission (selected by ESA in the framework of the Cosmic Vision M5 launch opportunity, currently in phase A) is…