Development status of the LAUE project
Abstract
We present the status of LAUE, a project supported by the Italian Space Agency (ASI), and devoted to develop Laue lenses with long focal length (from 10-15 meters up to 100 meters), for hard X-/soft gamma-ray astronomy (80-600 keV). Thanks to their focusing capability, the design goal is to improve the sensitivity of the current instrumention in the above energy band by 2 orders of magnitude, down to a few times 10-8 photons/(cm2 s keV).
- Publication:
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Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray
- Pub Date:
- September 2012
- DOI:
- 10.1117/12.926378
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1211.4977
- Bibcode:
- 2012SPIE.8443E..0BF
- Keywords:
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- Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 9 figures, presented at the Space Telescopes and Instrumentation Symposium in Amsterdam, 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray Conference. Published in the Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 8443, id. 84430B-84430B-9 (2012)