1. Development status of the LAUE project
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M. Statera, Vincenzo Guidi, F. Evangelisti, S. Chiozzi, L. Recanatesi, S. Silvestri, Natalia Auricchio, V. Valsan, R. A. Zappettini, Claudio Ferrari, S. Mottini, Riccardo Camattari, Filippo Frontera, Enrico Virgilli, B. Negri, V. Carassiti, M. Pecora, S. Squerzanti, Ezio Caroli, Vincenzo Liccardo, and F. Cassese
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Physics ,Orders of magnitude (power) ,Focusing telescopes ,Photon ,business.industry ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Gamma ray ,FOS: Physical sciences ,Astrophysics ,Physics::History of Physics ,Optics ,Focal length ,Gamma-rays ,Laue lenses ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,business ,Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM) - 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 (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/(cm$^2$ s keV)., 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)
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- 2012
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