DUAL Gamma-Ray Mission

Details DUAL Gamma-Ray Mission DUAL Gamma-Ray Mission

2010-06-10

arxiv.org/abs/1006.2102v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

White paper for US National Academy of Sciences Decadal Survey "Astro2010"

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Gamma-ray astronomy presents an extraordinary scientific potential for the study of the most powerful sources and the most violent events in the Universe. In order to take full advantage of this potential, the next generation of instrumentation for this domain will have to achieve an improvement in sensitivity over present technologies of at least an order of magnitude. The DUAL mission concept takes up this challenge in two complementary ways: a very long observation of the entire sky, combined with a large collection area for simultaneous observations of Type Ia SNe. While the Wide-Field Compton Telescope (WCT) accumulates data from the full gamma-ray sky (0.1-10 MeV) over the entire mission lifetime, the Laue-Lens Telescope (LLT) focuses on 56Co emission from SNe Ia (0.8-0.9 MeV), collecting gamma-rays from its large area crystal lens onto the WCT. Two separated spacecraft flying in formation will maintain the DUAL payloads at the lens' focal distance.

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