4 papers
A CubeSat Electronics System for Dual-Satellite Coordinated Soft X-Ray Polarimetry
Lirong Xie, Shiqiang Zhou, Kai Chen +12
Addressing the unique requirements for a wide field of view and rapid response in soft X-ray polarization measurements of transient sources such as gamma-ray bursts, this paper pro…
Topmetal-L: A Low Noise Charge-Sensitive Pixel Sensor for POLAR2/LPD
Li-rong Xie, Shi-Qiang Zhou, Di-Fan Yi +7
POLAR-2 is a next-generation space astronomy platform led by China, with its core scientific objective focused on high-precision polarization measurements of gamma-ray bursts. As o…
A Novel Pixel-Chip-Based Region-of-Interest Readout Circuit Design
Shi-Qiang Zhou, Li-Rong Xie, Dong Wang +9
This paper presents a novel pixel chip readout scheme: the Region-of-Interest Readout Circuit (ROIRC), which is designed for large area, large array pixel chips and Gas Pixel Detec…
Wide-Field X-ray Polarimetry for High Energy Astronomical Transients: First results of the pathfinder CXPD Cubesat Mission
Hong-Bang Liu, Zu-Ke Feng, Huan-Bo Feng +27
The Low Energy Polarization Detector (LPD) is a key component of the next-generation large-scale Gamma-Ray Burst polarimeter, POLAR-2. It is designed for polarization observations…