Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics
This volume is the first of its kind on focusing gamma-ray telescopes. Forty-eight refereed papers provide a comprehensive overview of the scientific potential and technical challenges of this nascent tool for nuclear astrophysics. The book features articles dealing with pivotal technologies such as...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2006.
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- Scientific Requirements and Prospects
- Prospects in space-based gamma-ray astronomy
- Annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy
- Prospects and requirements for measurements of extragalactic ?-ray lines
- Non-thermal cosmic backgrounds and prospects for future high-energy observations of blazars
- Rolling down from the 30 keV peak: Modelling the hard X-ray and ?-ray backgrounds
- Focusing supernova gamma rays
- Nucleosynthesis in nova explosions: Prospects for its observation with focusing telescopes
- Puzzles and potential for gamma-ray line observations of solar flare ion acceleration
- Gamma-ray Optics
- The INTEGRAL — HESS/MAGIC connection: A new class of cosmic high energy accelerators from keV to TeV
- Replicated nickel optics for the hard-x-ray region
- Small d-spacing WC/SiC multilayers for future hard X-ray telescope designs
- Design aspects of grazing angle multilayer mirrors for soft ?-rays
- Progress toward light weight high angular resolution multilayer coated optics
- InFOC?S hard X-ray imaging telescope
- Development of the HEFT and NuSTAR focusing telescopes
- The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission
- Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: Theoretical concepts
- Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: From theory to experiments
- Mosaic and gradient SiGe single crystals for gamma ray Laue lenses
- Copper mosaic crystals for Laue lenses
- High diffraction efficiency, broadband, diffraction crystals for use in crystal diffraction lenses
- An “ESA-affordable” Laue-lens
- Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (> 60 keV)
- Development of a new photon diffraction imaging system for diagnostic nuclear medicine
- HAXTEL: A Laue lens telescope development project for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray sky (>60 keV)
- CLAIRE: First light for a gamma-ray lens
- MAX, a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics
- The gamma ray lens — an ESA technology reference study
- Gamma ray Fresnel lenses — why not?
- Development of ground-testable phase fresnel lenses in silicon
- Multiwavelength focusing with the Sun as gravitational lens
- Focal Plane Instrumentation
- A Si/CdTe Compton Camera for gamma-ray lens experiment
- New scintillators for focal plane detectors in gamma-ray missions
- A focal plane detector design for a wide-band Laue-lens telescope
- Polarisation measurements with a CdTe pixel array detector for Laue hard X-ray focusing telescopes
- Simulated performance of dedicated Ge-strip Compton telescopes as ?-lens focal plane instrumentation
- Monte Carlo study of detector concepts for the MAX Laue lens gamma-ray telescope
- Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope
- The Compton and pair creation telescope MEGA
- Ground Facilities and Flight Systems for Focusing Telescopes
- The MPE X-ray test facility PANTER: Calibration of hard X-ray (15–50 kev) optics
- The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes
- SIMBOL-X: An hard X-ray formation flying mission
- Distributed space segment for high energy astrophysics: Similarities and specificites
- The CLAIRE gondola: Testing the first gamma-ray lens on a stratospheric balloon
- Recent advances and low cost concept for the gamma-ray lens project MAX
- Small-sat platforms and formation flying: An opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX
- MAX: Formation flying for nuclear astrophysics
- Formation flying for a Fresnel lens observatory mission.
