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most citedDiscovery of Powerful Gamma-Ray Flares from the Crab Nebula

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Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group: Final Report

Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group, Simon R. Bandler, Laura W. Brenneman +51

The Lynx2030 Science Analysis Group (SAG) was convened to reassess the scientific goals and technical drivers of the Lynx mission concept amid a rapidly evolving astrophysics lands…

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EXPO: a quantum leap in fast, wide-band X-ray polarimetry for astrophysics

Paolo Soffitta, Sebastien Guillot, Ian Hutchinson +137

The Enhanced X-ray Polarimetry Observatory (EXPO) is a mission concept proposed to ESA as an M8 candidate, with a prospective launch in 2041. Building on the scientific success of…

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A Focal-plane X-ray Polarimeter with Spectral and Timing Capabilities for Future Missions

Hemanth Manikantan, Carlo Lefevre, Lorenzo Petrucci +16

The NASA-ASI mission Imaging X-ray Polarimeter Explorer (IXPE) firmly established X-ray polarimetry as a core observation pillar of high-energy astrophysics, alongside imaging, tim…

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The CUSP CubeSat mission for space weather multi-physics analysis, design, and testing

Giovanni Lombardi, Riccardo Di Spirito, Sergio Fabiani +48

The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band by means of a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP is a…

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Compton Polarimeter Prototype for the CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission

Nicolas De Angelis, Andrea Alimenti, Riccardo Campana +41

The space-based CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) mission aims to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band (25-100 keV) by means of a dual-phase Compto…

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Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Brian Ramsey, Paolo Soffitta, Martin C. Weisskopf

In 1971 a group from Columbia University detected polarized X rays from the Crab Nebula at about 3 sigma level during a short sounding rocket flight (Novick et al. (1972)). This me…