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/(cm2 s keV).
@article{arxiv.1211.4977,
title = {Development status of the LAUE project},
author = {F. Frontera and E. Virgilli and V. Liccardo and V. Valsan and V. Carassiti and S. Chiozzi and F. Evangelisti and S. Squerzanti and M. Statera and V. Guidi and C. Ferrari and R. A. Zappettini and E. Caroli and N. Auricchio and S. Silvestri and R. Camattari and F. Cassese and L. Recanatesi and M. Pecora and S. Mottini and B. Negri},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.4977},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
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)