Unveiling Physical Processes in Type Ia Supernovae With a Laue Lens Telescope

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2011-09-06

arxiv.org/abs/1109.1307v1

PoS(INTEGRAL 2010)108

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics

Proceedings of the 8th INTEGRAL workshop held in Dublin from Sept 27th to 30th 2010

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We present in this paper a focusing gamma-ray telescope that has only one goal: addressing the true nature of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia). This telescope is based on a Laue lens focusing a 100-keV wide energy band centered on 847 keV, which correspond to a bright line emitted by the decay chain of 56Ni, a radioactive element massively produced during SNe Ia events. Spectroscopy and light curve measurements of this gamma-ray line allow direct measurement of the underlying explosion physics and dynamics, and thus discriminate among the competing models. However reaching this goal the observation of several events with high detection significance, meaning more powerful telescopes. The telescope concept we present in this paper is composed of a Laue lens held 30 m apart from the focal instrument (a compact Compton telescope) by an extensible mast. With a 3-sigma sensitivity of 1.8\times10-6 ph/s/cm2 in the 3%-broadened line at 847 keV (in 1Ms observation time), dozens of SNe Ia could be detected per year out to \sim40 Mpc, enough to perform detailed time-evolved spectroscopy on several events each year. This study took place in the framework of the DUAL mission proposal which was recently submitted to ESA for the third medium class mission of the Cosmic Vision program.

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