Conference paper
ASTENA, a new mission concept for an Advanced Surveyor of Transient Events and Nuclear Astrophysics
Università degli studi di Ferrara1
National Institute for Astrophysics2
Astrophysics and Atmospheric Physics, National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark3
National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark4
University of Coimbra5
Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives6
Within the context of the European project AHEAD, the study of a new concept of high energy mission named ASTENA (Advanced Surveyor of Transient Events and Nuclear Astrophysics) has been started. The mission includes a set of broad band (2 keV–20 MeV) Wide Field Monitors with imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetric capabilities (WFM-IS), and a large effective area broad-band (50–600 keV) Narrow Field Telescope (NFT) with focusing capabilities based on the use of an advanced Laue lens with unprecedented imaging, spectroscopy and polarimetric sensitivity.
ASTENA is expected to be a real breakthrough in the gamma-ray energy band, opening a new window in high energy astrophysics. A short description of the mission concept is reported.
| Language: | English |
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| Year: | 2019 |
| Pages: | 247-251 |
| Proceedings: | 12th INTEGRAL conference, 1st AHEAD Gamma-Ray Workshop |
| ISSN: | 1824016x and 00378720 |
| Types: | Conference paper |
| ORCIDs: | Brandt, S. , Budtz-Joergensen, C. and Kuvvetli, I. |
