Development status of the LAUE project

Authors :: Frontera, F.
Virgilli, E.
Liccardo, V.
Valsan, V.
Carassiti, V.
Chiozzi, S.
Evangelisti, F.
Squerzanti, S.
Statera, M.
Guidi, V.
Ferrari, C.
Zappettini, R. A.
Caroli, E.
Auricchio, N.
Silvestri, S.
Camattari, R.
Cassese, F.
Recanatesi, L.
Pecora, M.
Mottini, S.
Negri, B.
Publication Year :: 2012
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).<br />Comment: 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)