Ballmoos, Peter
Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics
Section I. Scientific Requirements and Prospects
1. Prospects in space-based gamma-ray astronomy
J. Knödlseder
2. Annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy
S. Sazonov, E. Churazov, R. Sunyaev, M. Revnivtsev
3. Prospects and requirements for measurements of extragalactic
Richard E. Griffiths
4. Non-thermal cosmic backgrounds and prospects for future high-energy observations of blazars
P. Giommi, S. Colafrancesco
5. Rolling down from the 30 keV peak: Modelling the hard X-ray and
Andrea Comastri, Roberto Gilli, Günther Hasinger
6. Focusing supernova gamma rays
M. D. Leising
7. Nucleosynthesis in nova explosions: Prospects for its observation with focusing telescopes
M. Hernanz, J. José
8. Puzzles and potential for gamma-ray line observations of solar flare ion acceleration
David M. Smith
Section II:. Gamma-ray Optics
9. The INTEGRAL — HESS/MAGIC connection: A new class of cosmic high energy accelerators from keV to TeV
P. Ubertini
10. Replicated nickel optics for the hard-x-ray region
Brian D. Ramsey
11. Small d-spacing WC/SiC multilayers for future hard X-ray telescope designs
Carsten P. Jensen, Kristin K. Madsen, Finn E. Christensen
12. Design aspects of grazing angle multilayer mirrors for soft
Ernst-Jan Buis, Marco Beijersbergen, Giuseppe Vacanti, Marcos Bavdaz, David Lumb
13. Progress toward light weight high angular resolution multilayer coated optics
M. P. Ulmer, M. E. Graham, S. Vaynman, J. Echt, M. Farber, S. Ehlert, S. Varlese
14. InFOC
J. Tueller, H. A. Krimm, T. Okajima, S. D. Barthelmy, S. M. Owens, P. J. Serlemitsos, Y. Soong, K. -W. Chan, Y. Ogasaka, R. Shibata, K. Tamura, A. Furuzawa, Y. Tawara, H. Kunieda, K. Yamashita
15. Development of the
Fiona A. Harrison, Finn E. Christensen, William Craig, Charles Hailey, Wayne Baumgartner, C. M. H. Chen, James Chonko, W. Rick Cook, Jason Koglin, Kristin-Kruse Madsen, Michael Pivavoroff, Steven Boggs, David Smith
16. The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission
Giovanni Pareschi, Philippe Ferrando
17. Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: Theoretical concepts
Hubert Halloin, Pierre Bastie
18. Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: From theory to experiments
Hubert Halloin
19. Mosaic and gradient SiGe single crystals for gamma ray Laue lenses
N. V. Abrosimov
20. Copper mosaic crystals for Laue lenses
P. Courtois, K. H. Andersen, P. Bastie
21. High diffraction efficiency, broadband, diffraction crystals for use in crystal diffraction lenses
Robert K. Smither, Khaliefeh Abu Saleem, Dante E. Roa, Mark A. Beno, Peter Ballmoos, Gerry K. Skinner
22. An “ESA-affordable” Laue-lens
Niels Lund
23. Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (> 60 keV)
Alessandro Pisa, Filippo Frontera, Gianluca Loffredo, Damiano Pellicciotta, Natalia Auricchio
24. Development of a new photon diffraction imaging system for diagnostic nuclear medicine
D. E. Roa, R. K. Smither, X. Zhang, K Nie, Y. Y. Shieh, N. S. Ramsinghani, N. Milne, J. V. Kuo, J. L. Redpath, M. S. A. L. Al-Ghazi, P. Caligiuri
25. HAXTEL: A Laue lens telescope development project for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray sky (>60 keV)
F. Frontera, A. Pisa, G. Loffredo, D. Pellicciotta, V. Carassiti, F. Evangelisti, K. Andersen, P. Courtois, L. Amati, E. Caroli, T. Franceschini, G. Landini, S. Silvestri, J. Stephen
26. CLAIRE: First light for a gamma-ray lens
Peter Ballmoos, Hubert Halloin, Jean Evrard, Gerry Skinner, Nikolai Abrosimov, Jose Alvarez, Pierre Bastie, Bernard Hamelin, Margarida Hernanz, Pierre Jean, Jürgen Knödlseder, Bob Smither
27. MAX, a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics
N. Barrière, P. Ballmoos, H. Halloin, N. Abrosimov, J. M. Alvarez, K. Andersen, P. Bastie, S. Boggs, P. Courtois, T. Courvoisier, M. Harris, M. Hernanz, J. Isern, P. Jean, J. Knödlseder, G. Skinner, B. Smither, P. Ubertini, G. Vedrenne, G. Weidenspointner, C. Wunderer
28. The gamma ray lens — an ESA technology reference study
Craig Brown, Nicola Rando, Alexander Short, Aleksander Lyngvi, Tone Peacock
29. Gamma ray Fresnel lenses — why not?
G. K. Skinner
30. Development of ground-testable phase fresnel lenses in silicon
John Krizmanic, Brian Morgan, Robert Streitmatter, Neil Gehrels, Keith Gendreau, Zaven Arzoumanian, Reza Ghodssi, Gerry Skinner
31. Multiwavelength focusing with the Sun as gravitational lens
Laurent Koechlin, Denis Serre, Gerald K. Skinner, Peter Ballmoos, Thomas Crouzil
Section III:. Focal Plane Instrumentation
32. A Si/CdTe Compton Camera for gamma-ray lens experiment
Tadayuki Takahashi
33. New scintillators for focal plane detectors in gamma-ray missions
Ernst-Jan Buis, Marco Beijersbergen, Stefan Kraft, Alan Owens, Francesco Quarati, Sytze Brandenburg, Reint Ostendorf
34. A focal plane detector design for a wide-band Laue-lens telescope
Ezio Caroli, Natalia Auricchio, Lorenzo Amati, Yuriy Bezsmolnyy, Carl Budtz-Jørgensen, Rui M. Curado da Silva, Filippo Frontera, Alessandro Pisa, Stefano Sordo, John B. Stephen, Giulio Ventura
35. Polarisation measurements with a CdTe pixel array detector for Laue hard X-ray focusing telescopes
Ezio Caroli, Rui M. Curado da Silva, Alessandro Pisa, John B. Stephen, Filippo Frontera, Matilde T. D. Castanheira, Stefano Sordo
36. Simulated performance of dedicated Ge-strip Compton telescopes as
C. B. Wunderer, P. Ballmoos, N. Barrière, S. E. Boggs, G. Weidenspointner, A. Zoglauer
37. Monte Carlo study of detector concepts for the MAX Laue lens gamma-ray telescope
G. Weidenspointner, C. B. Wunderer, N. Barrière, A. Zoglauer, P. Ballmoos
38. Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope
Steven Boggs, Mark Bandstra, Jason Bowen, Wayne Coburn, Robert Lin, Cornelia Wunderer, Andreas Zoglauer, Mark Amman, Paul Luke, Pierre Jean, Peter Ballmoos
39. The Compton and pair creation telescope MEGA
Robert Andritschke, Andreas Zoglauer, Gottfried Kanbach, Peter F. Bloser, Florian Schopper
Section IV:. Ground Facilities and Flight Systems for Focusing Telescopes
40. The MPE X-ray test facility PANTER: Calibration of hard X-ray (15–50 kev) optics
M. J. Freyberg, H. Bräuninger, W. Burkert, G. D. Hartner, O. Citterio, F. Mazzoleni, G. Pareschi, D. Spiga, S. Romaine, P. Gorenstein, B. D. Ramsey
41. The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes
Gianluca Loffredo, Filippo Frontera, Damiano Pellicciotta, Alessandro Pisa, Vito Carassiti, Stefano Chiozzi, Federico Evangelisti, Luca Landi, Michele Melchiorri, Stefano Squerzanti
42. SIMBOL-X: An hard X-ray formation flying mission
Rodolphe Clédassou, Philippe Ferrando
43. Distributed space segment for high energy astrophysics: Similarities and specificites
Emmanuel Hinglais
44. The CLAIRE gondola: Testing the first gamma-ray lens on a stratospheric balloon
Ph. Laporte, J. Evrard, A. Laurens
45. Recent advances and low cost concept for the gamma-ray lens project MAX
Xavier Leyre, Michel Sghedoni, Francis Arbusti, Primo Attina, Peter Ballmoos
46. Small-sat platforms and formation flying: An opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX
J. Borde, P. Ballmoos, R. Soumagne
47. MAX: Formation flying for nuclear astrophysics
Duchon Paul
48. Formation flying for a Fresnel lens observatory mission
John Krizmanic, Neil Gehrels, Gerry Skinner
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Keywords: SCIENCE / Physics SCI055000
- Author(s)
- Ballmoos, Peter
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2006
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Category
- Natural Sciences
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9781402053047