Focusing Telescopes in Nuclear Astrophysics

Front Matter....Pages i-2
Prospects in space-based gamma-ray astronomy....Pages 3-13
Annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy....Pages 15-22
Prospects and requirements for measurements of extragalactic γ -ray lines....Pages 23-30
Non-thermal cosmic backgrounds and prospects for future high-energy observations of blazars....Pages 31-40
Rolling down from the 30 keV peak: Modelling the hard X-ray and γ -ray backgrounds....Pages 41-47
Focusing supernova gamma rays....Pages 49-55
Nucleosynthesis in nova explosions: Prospects for its observation with focusing telescopes....Pages 57-64
Puzzles and potential for gamma-ray line observations of solar flare ion acceleration....Pages 65-73
The INTEGRAL — HESS/MAGIC connection: A new class of cosmic high energy accelerators from keV to TeV....Pages 75-83
Replicated nickel optics for the hard-x-ray region....Pages 85-92
Small d-spacing WC/SiC multilayers for future hard X-ray telescope designs....Pages 93-103
Design aspects of grazing angle multilayer mirrors for soft γ -rays....Pages 105-113
Progress toward light weight high angular resolution multilayer coated optics....Pages 115-120
InFOC μ S hard X-ray imaging telescope....Pages 121-129
Development of the HEFT and NuSTAR focusing telescopes....Pages 131-137
The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission....Pages 139-149
Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: Theoretical concepts....Pages 151-170
Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: From theory to experiments....Pages 171-184
Mosaic and gradient SiGe single crystals for gamma ray Laue lenses....Pages 185-194
Copper mosaic crystals for Laue lenses....Pages 195-200
High diffraction efficiency, broadband, diffraction crystals for use in crystal diffraction lenses....Pages 201-210
An “ESA-affordable” Laue-lens....Pages 211-217
Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (> 60 keV)....Pages 219-228
Development of a new photon diffraction imaging system for diagnostic nuclear medicine....Pages 229-239
HAXTEL: A Laue lens telescope development project for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray sky (>60 keV)....Pages 241-251
CLAIRE: First light for a gamma-ray lens....Pages 253-267
MAX, a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics....Pages 269-278
The gamma ray lens — an ESA technology reference study....Pages 279-288
Gamma ray Fresnel lenses — why not?....Pages 289-298
Development of ground-testable phase fresnel lenses in silicon....Pages 299-306
Multiwavelength focusing with the Sun as gravitational lens....Pages 307-315
A Si/CdTe Compton Camera for gamma-ray lens experiment....Pages 317-331
New scintillators for focal plane detectors in gamma-ray missions....Pages 333-339
A focal plane detector design for a wide-band Laue-lens telescope....Pages 341-351
Polarisation measurements with a CdTe pixel array detector for Laue hard X-ray focusing telescopes....Pages 353-364
Simulated performance of dedicated Ge-strip Compton telescopes as γ -lens focal plane instrumentation....Pages 365-373
Monte Carlo study of detector concepts for the MAX Laue lens gamma-ray telescope....Pages 375-386
Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope....Pages 387-394
The Compton and pair creation telescope MEGA....Pages 395-403
The MPE X-ray test facility PANTER: Calibration of hard X-ray (15–50 kev) optics....Pages 405-412
The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes....Pages 413-420
SIMBOL-X: An hard X-ray formation flying mission....Pages 421-434
Distributed space segment for high energy astrophysics: Similarities and specificites....Pages 435-445
The CLAIRE gondola: Testing the first gamma-ray lens on a stratospheric balloon....Pages 447-454
Recent advances and low cost concept for the gamma-ray lens project MAX....Pages 455-464
Small-sat platforms and formation flying: An opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX....Pages 465-482
MAX: Formation flying for nuclear astrophysics....Pages 483-495
Formation flying for a Fresnel lens observatory mission....Pages 497-503