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Rui M. Curado da Silva

Researcher at University of Coimbra

Publications -  25
Citations -  738

Rui M. Curado da Silva is an academic researcher from University of Coimbra. The author has contributed to research in topics: Polarimetry & Lens (optics). The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 20 publications receiving 668 citations.

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The e-ASTROGAM mission: Exploring the extreme Universe with gamma rays in the MeV – GeV range

A. De Angelis, +74 more
TL;DR: The e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) project as mentioned in this paper is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated to the study of the non-thermal Universe in the photon energy range from 0.3 MeV to 3 GeV.
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XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

P. Soffitta, +421 more
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) as discussed by the authors is a mission dedicated to Xray Astronomy which is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4).
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XIPE: the X-ray imaging polarimetry explorer

Paolo Soffitta, +106 more
TL;DR: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) as mentioned in this paper was proposed in 2012 to the first ESA call for a small mission with a launch in 2017, but the proposal was, unfortunately, not selected.
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XIPE: the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer

Paolo Soffitta, +98 more
TL;DR: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) as mentioned in this paper is composed of two out of the three existing JET-X telescopes with two Gas Pixel Detectors (GPDs) filled with a He-DME mixture at their focus, and two additional GPDs filled with pressurized Ar DME facing the sun.