ASTENA, a new mission concept for an Advanced Surveyor of Transient Events and Nuclear Astrophysics.
Abstract
Within the context of the European project AHEAD, the study of a new concept of high energy mission named ASTENA (Advanced Surveyor of Transient Events and Nuclear Astrophysics) has been started. The mission includes a set of broad band (2 keV-20 MeV) Wide Field Monitors with imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetric capabilities (WFM-IS), and a large effective area broad-band (50-600 keV) Narrow Field Telescope (NFT) with focusing capabilities based on the use of an advanced Laue lens with unprecedented imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetric sensitivity. ASTENA is expected to be a real breakthrough in the gamma-ray energy band, opening a new window in high energy astrophysics. A short description of the mission concept is reported.
- Publication:
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Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana
- Pub Date:
- 2019
- Bibcode:
- 2019MmSAI..90..247F
- Keywords:
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- soft gamma-ray astronomy;
- instrumentation;
- GRBs;
- nuclear astrophysics