1. Towards imaging-spectro-polarimetry of solar flares in the X-rays
- Author
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Fabiani, Sergio, Rankin, John, Basso, Stefano, Costa, Enrico, Del Monte, Ettore, Desch, Klaus, Di Marco, Alessandro, Gruber, Markus, Kaminski, Jochen, Kim, Dawoon E., Imtiaz, Saba, Lefevre, Carlo, Loffredo, Pasqualino, Manikantan, Hemant, Morbidini, Alfredo, Muleri, Fabio, Pareschi, Giovanni, Plesanovs, Vladilavs, Ratheesh, Ajay, Rubini, Alda, Soffitta, Paolo, and Spiga, Daniele
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics - Abstract
X-ray polarimetry of solar flares is still a not well established field of observation of our star. Past polarimeters were not able to measure with a high significance the polarization in X-rays from solar flares. Moreover, they had no imaging capabilities and measured only the polarization by integrating on all the image of the source. We propose a mission concept based on a gas photoelectric polarimeter, coupled with multilayer lobster-eye optics, to perform imaging-spectro-polarimetry of solar flares while monitoring the entire solar disc., Comment: Proceeding of SPIE Conference "Astronomical Telescopes+ Instrumentation", Yokohama (Japan), 16-21 June 2024
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- 2024