Development status of the LAUE project

F. Frontera; E. Virgilli; V. Liccardo; V. Valsan; V. Carassiti; S. Chiozzi; F. Evangelisti; S. Squerzanti; M. Statera; V. Guidi; C. Ferrari; R. A. Zappettini; E. Caroli; N. Auricchio; S. Silvestri; R. Camattari; F. Cassese; L. Recanatesi; M. Pecora; S. Mottini; B. Negri

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27 September 2012 Development status of the LAUE project

F. Frontera; E. Virgilli; V. Liccardo; V. Valsan; V. Carassiti; S. Chiozzi; F. Evangelisti; S. Squerzanti; M. Statera; V. Guidi; C. Ferrari; R. A. Zappettini; E. Caroli; N. Auricchio; S. Silvestri; R. Camattari; F. Cassese; L. Recanatesi; M. Pecora; S. Mottini; B. Negri

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Proceedings Volume 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray; 84430B (2012) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926378
Event: SPIE Astronomical Telescopes + Instrumentation, 2012, Amsterdam, Netherlands

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).

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F. Frontera, E. Virgilli, V. Liccardo, V. Valsan, V. Carassiti, S. Chiozzi, F. Evangelisti, S. Squerzanti, M. Statera, V. Guidi, C. Ferrari, R. A. Zappettini, E. Caroli, N. Auricchio, S. Silvestri, R. Camattari, F. Cassese, L. Recanatesi, M. Pecora, S. Mottini, and B. Negri "Development status of the LAUE project", Proc. SPIE 8443, Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2012: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray, 84430B (27 September 2012); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926378