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author Fabiani, Sergio
Del Monte, Ettore
Alimenti, Andrea
Campana, Riccardo
Centrone, Mauro
Costa, Enrico
De Angelis, Nicolas
De Cesare, Giovanni
Di Cosimo, Sergio
Di Persio, Giuseppe
Kumar, Abhay
Lacerenza, Alessandro
Loffredo, Pasqualino
Lombardi, Giovanni
Marra, Lorenzo
Minervini, Gabriele
Muleri, Fabio
Romano, Paolo
Rubini, Alda
Scalise, Emanuele
Silva, Enrico
Soffitta, Paolo
Albanesi, Davide
Baffo, Ilaria
Brienza, Daniele
Campamaggiore, Valerio
Cucinella, Giovanni
Curatolo, Andrea
de Iulis, Giulia
Del Re, Andrea
Di Bari, Vito
Di Filippo, Simone
Donnarumma, Immacolata
Fanelli, Pierluigi
Gagliardi, Nicolas
Leonetti, Paolo
Mergè, Matteo
Modenini, Dario
Negri, Andrea
Pecorella, Daniele
Perelli, Massimo
Ponti, Alice
Sbop, Francesca
Tortora, Paolo
Turchi, Alessandro
Vagelli, Valerio
Zaccagnino, Emanuele
Zambardi, Alessandro
Zazza, Costantino
author_facet Fabiani, Sergio
Del Monte, Ettore
Alimenti, Andrea
Campana, Riccardo
Centrone, Mauro
Costa, Enrico
De Angelis, Nicolas
De Cesare, Giovanni
Di Cosimo, Sergio
Di Persio, Giuseppe
Kumar, Abhay
Lacerenza, Alessandro
Loffredo, Pasqualino
Lombardi, Giovanni
Marra, Lorenzo
Minervini, Gabriele
Muleri, Fabio
Romano, Paolo
Rubini, Alda
Scalise, Emanuele
Silva, Enrico
Soffitta, Paolo
Albanesi, Davide
Baffo, Ilaria
Brienza, Daniele
Campamaggiore, Valerio
Cucinella, Giovanni
Curatolo, Andrea
de Iulis, Giulia
Del Re, Andrea
Di Bari, Vito
Di Filippo, Simone
Donnarumma, Immacolata
Fanelli, Pierluigi
Gagliardi, Nicolas
Leonetti, Paolo
Mergè, Matteo
Modenini, Dario
Negri, Andrea
Pecorella, Daniele
Perelli, Massimo
Ponti, Alice
Sbop, Francesca
Tortora, Paolo
Turchi, Alessandro
Vagelli, Valerio
Zaccagnino, Emanuele
Zambardi, Alessandro
Zazza, Costantino
contents The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is an Earth-orbiting CubeSat mission designed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band using a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP will enable the study of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration within the Sun's flaring magnetic structures. This project is being developed within the framework of the Italian Space Agency's Alcor Program, which aims to foster new CubeSat missions. CUSP entered its Phase B in December 2024, a phase scheduled to last 12 months. This paper reports on the current status of the CUSP mission design, mission analysis, and payload scientific performance.
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spellingShingle The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP): mission overview II
Fabiani, Sergio
Del Monte, Ettore
Alimenti, Andrea
Campana, Riccardo
Centrone, Mauro
Costa, Enrico
De Angelis, Nicolas
De Cesare, Giovanni
Di Cosimo, Sergio
Di Persio, Giuseppe
Kumar, Abhay
Lacerenza, Alessandro
Loffredo, Pasqualino
Lombardi, Giovanni
Marra, Lorenzo
Minervini, Gabriele
Muleri, Fabio
Romano, Paolo
Rubini, Alda
Scalise, Emanuele
Silva, Enrico
Soffitta, Paolo
Albanesi, Davide
Baffo, Ilaria
Brienza, Daniele
Campamaggiore, Valerio
Cucinella, Giovanni
Curatolo, Andrea
de Iulis, Giulia
Del Re, Andrea
Di Bari, Vito
Di Filippo, Simone
Donnarumma, Immacolata
Fanelli, Pierluigi
Gagliardi, Nicolas
Leonetti, Paolo
Mergè, Matteo
Modenini, Dario
Negri, Andrea
Pecorella, Daniele
Perelli, Massimo
Ponti, Alice
Sbop, Francesca
Tortora, Paolo
Turchi, Alessandro
Vagelli, Valerio
Zaccagnino, Emanuele
Zambardi, Alessandro
Zazza, Costantino
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP) project is an Earth-orbiting CubeSat mission designed to measure the linear polarization of solar flares in the hard X-ray band using a Compton scattering polarimeter. CUSP will enable the study of magnetic reconnection and particle acceleration within the Sun's flaring magnetic structures. This project is being developed within the framework of the Italian Space Agency's Alcor Program, which aims to foster new CubeSat missions. CUSP entered its Phase B in December 2024, a phase scheduled to last 12 months. This paper reports on the current status of the CUSP mission design, mission analysis, and payload scientific performance.
title The CUbesat Solar Polarimeter (CUSP): mission overview II
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00661