Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-06-21
Exper.Astron.20:3-13,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 7 figures, to be published in the Proceedings of the 39th ESLAB Symposium
Scientific paper
10.1007/s10686-006-9031-8
With the unequalled INTEGRAL observatory, ESA has provided a unique tool to the astronomical community that has made Europe the world leader in the field of gamma-ray astronomy. INTEGRAL provides an unprecedented survey of the soft gamma-ray sky, revealing hundreds of sources of different kinds, new classes of objects, extraordinary views of antimatter annihilation in our Galaxy, and fingerprints of recent nucleosynthesis processes. While INTEGRAL provides the longly awaited global overview over the soft gamma-ray sky, there is a growing need to perform deeper, more focused investigations of gamma-ray sources, comparable to the step that has been taken in X-rays by going from the ROSAT survey satellite to the more focused XMM-Newton observatory. Technological advances in the past years in the domain of gamma-ray focusing using Laue diffraction techniques have paved the way towards a future European gamma-ray mission, that will outreach past missions by large factors in sensitivity and angular resolution. Such a future Gamma-Ray Imager will allow to study particle acceleration processes and explosion physics in unprecedented depth, providing essential clues on the intimate nature of the most violent and most energetic processes in the Universe.
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