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most citedAccretion geometry of the black-hole binary Cygnus X-1 from X-ray polarimetry

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physics.ins-det20214 cited

The design and performance of CUBES -- a CubeSat X-ray detector

Rakhee Kushwah, Theodor A. Stana, Mark Pearce

CUBES is a X-ray detector payload which will be installed on the KTH 3U CubeSat mission, MIST. The detector comprises cerium-doped Gd3Al2Ga3O12 (GAGG) scintillators read out with s…

astro-ph.IM2020

XL-Calibur -- a second-generation balloon-borne hard X-ray polarimetry mission

Q. Abarr, H. Awaki, M. G. Baring +38

XL-Calibur is a hard X-ray (15-80 keV) polarimetry mission operating from a stabilised balloon-borne platform in the stratosphere. It builds on heritage from the X-Calibur mission,…

astro-ph.IM2019

A Compton polarimeter using scintillators read out with MPPCs through Citiroc ASIC

Rakhee Kushwah, Nirmal K. Iyer, Mózsi Kiss +2

In recent years, a number of purpose-built scintillator-based polarimeters have studied bright astronomical sources for the first time in the hard X-ray band (tens to hundreds of k…

astro-ph.HE201856 cited

Accretion geometry of the black-hole binary Cygnus X-1 from X-ray polarimetry

M. Chauvin, H. -G. Florén, M. Friis +13

Black-hole binary (BHB) systems comprise a stellar-mass black hole and a closely orbiting companion star. Matter is transferred from the companion to the black hole, forming an acc…

astro-ph.IM2018

Science prospects for SPHiNX - a small satellite GRB polarimetry mission

M. Pearce, L. Eliasson, N. Kumar Iyer +9

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are exceptionally bright electromagnetic events occurring daily on the sky. The prompt emission is dominated by X-/-rays. Since their discovery over 50 y…

astro-ph.HE20172 cited

Shedding new light on the Crab with polarized X-rays

M. Chauvin, H. -G. Florén, M. Friis +13

Strong magnetic fields, synchrotron emission, and Compton scattering are omnipresent in compact celestial X-ray sources. Emissions in the X-ray energy band are consequently expecte…