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Opening the path to hard X-/soft gamma-ray focussing: the ASTENA-pathfinder mission
العنوان: | Opening the path to hard X-/soft gamma-ray focussing: the ASTENA-pathfinder mission |
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المؤلفون: | Virgilli, Enrico, Amati, Lorenzo, Auricchio, Natalia, Caroli, Ezio, Fuschino, Fabio, Orlandini, Mauro, Stephen, John Buchan, Ferro, Lisa, Frontera, Filippo, Moita, Miguel, Rosati, Piero, Caselle, Michele, Ferrari, Claudio |
سنة النشر: | 2023 |
المجموعة: | Astrophysics |
مصطلحات موضوعية: | Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
الوصف: | Hard X-/soft gamma-ray astronomy is a crucial field for transient, nuclear and multimessenger astrophysics. However, the spatial localization, imaging capabilities and sensitivity of the measurements are strongly limited for the energy range > 70 keV. To overcome these limitations, we have proposed a mission concept, ASTENA, submitted to ESA for its program Voyage 2050. We will report on a pathfinder of ASTENA, that we intend to propose to ASI as an Italian mission with international participation. It will be based on one of the two instruments aboard ASTENA: a Laue lens with 20 m focal length, able to focus hard X-rays in the 50-700 keV passband into a 3-d position sensitive focal plane spectrometer. The combination of the focussing properties of the lens and of the localization properties of the detector will provide unparalleled imaging and spectroscopic capabilities, thus enabling studies of phenomena such as gamma-ray bursts afterglows, supernova explosions, positron annihilation lines and many more. Comment: To be published in 'Il Nuovo Cimento' as a selected communication of the 'SIF National Congress 2022' |
نوع الوثيقة: | Working Paper |
URL الوصول: | http://arxiv.org/abs/2302.09272 |
رقم الأكسشن: | edsarx.2302.09272 |
قاعدة البيانات: | arXiv |
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