Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-07-07
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 10 figures, to be published in the Proc. of the 39th ESLAB Symosium, 19-21 April 2005
Scientific paper
The history of X-ray astronomy has shown that any advancement in our knowledge of the X-ray sky is strictly related to an increase in instrument sensitivity. At energies above 60 keV, there are interesting prospects for greatly improving the limiting sensitivity of the current generation of direct viewing telescopes (with or without coded masks), offered by the use of Laue lenses. We will discuss below the development status of a Hard X-Ray focusing Telescope (HAXTEL) based on Laue lenses with a broad bandpass (from 60 to 600 keV) for the study of the X-ray continuum of celestial sources. We show two examplesof multi-lens configurations with expected sensitivity orders of magnitude better ($\sim 1 \times 10^{-8}$ photons cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ keV$^{-1}$ at 200 keV) than that achieved so far. With this unprecedented sensitivity, very exciting astrophysical prospects are opened.
Amati Lorenzo
Andersen Kristoffer K.
Auricchio Natalia
Bassani Loredana
Carassiti Vito
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