FOCUSING TELESCOPES IN NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS

Online Articles  (Springer, Experimental Astronomy, 2006)

Scientific requirements and prospects

	Jürgen KNOEDLSEDER CESR Toulouse	Prospects in space-based Gamma-Ray Astronomy
	Sergey SAZONOV MPI Garching	Annihilation of positrons in the Galaxy
	Richard GRIFFITHS Carnegie Mellon University	Prospects and requirements for measurements of extragalactic γ-ray lines
	Paolo GIOMMI & S. COLAFRANCESCO ASI / INAF Frascati/Roma	Non-thermal cosmic backgrounds and prospects for future high-energy observations of blazars
	Andrea COMASTRI et al. INAF, Osservat. Astronomico di Bologna	Rolling down from the 30 keV peak: Modelling the Hard X-Ray and γ-Ray Backgrounds
	Mark LEISING Clemson University	Focusing supernova gamma rays
	Margarida HERNANZ and Jordy JOSE IEEC Barcelona	Nucleosynthesis in nova explosions: prospects for their observation with focusing telescopes
	David SMITH Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics	Puzzles and Potential for Gamma-ray Line Observations of Solar Flare Ion Acceleration
	Pietro UBERTINI et al. IASF Roma	The INTEGRAL - HESS connection: a new class of cosmic high energy accelerators from keV to TeV

Gamma-ray Optics

	Hubert HALLOIN  & Pierre BASTIE APC Paris and LSP, St Martin d'Hères	Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: Theoretical concepts
	Hubert HALLOIN APC Paris	Laue diffraction lenses for astrophysics: From theory to experiments
	Brian RAMSEY Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville	Replicated Nickel Optics for the Hard-X-Ray Region
	Carsten JENSEN et al. Danish Natl. Space Center, Copenhagen	Small d-spacing WC/SIC multilayers for future hard x-ray telescope designs
	Ernst-Jan BUIS et al. Cosine Science and Computing, Leiden	Design Aspects of Grazing Angle Multilayer Mirrors for Soft γ-Rays
	Melville ULMER Northwestern University, Evanston	Progress Toward Light Wright High Angular Resolution Multilayer Coated Optics
	Jack TUELLER et al. GSFC Greenbelt	InFOCuS hard X-ray imaging telescope
	Nikolaï ABROSIMOV Institut für Kristallzünchtung, Berlin	Mosaic and Gradient Single Crystals for Gamma ray Laue Lenses
	Bob SMITHER et al. Argonnel Natl. Laboratories, Chicago	High Diffraction Efficiency, Broadband Diffraction Crystals for use in Crystal DiffractionLenses
	Niels LUND Danish Natl. Space Center, Copenhagen	An “ESA-Affordable” Laue-lenses
	Alessandro PISA et al. INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	Optical properties of Laue lenses for hard X-rays (>60 keV)
	Pierre COURTOIS et al. Institut Laue-Langevin, Grenoble	Copper Mosaic Crystals for Laue Lens
	Dante ROA et al. University of California, Irvine	Development of a new photon diffraction imaging system for nuclear diagnostic medicine
	Fiona HARRISON et al. Caltech, Pasadena	Development of the HEFT and NuSTAR focusing telescopes
	Giovanni PARESCHI & Philippe FERRANDO INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	The SIMBOL-X hard X-ray mission
	Fillipo FRONTERA et al. INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	HAXTEL: a Laue lens telescope for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray (>60 keV) sky
	Peter VON BALLMOOS et al. CESR, Toulouse	CLAIRE: First light for a gamma-ray lens
	Nicolas BARRIERE et al. CESR, Toulouse	MAX, a Laue diffraction lens for nuclear astrophysics
	Craig BROWN et al. Science Payload & Adv. Concepts Office, ESA	The Gamma Ray Lens : An ESA technology reference study
	Gerry SKINNER et al. CESR, Toulouse	Fresnel Lenses - why not ?
	John KRIZMANIC USRA/NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt	Development of ground-testable phase fresnel lenses in silicon
	Laurent KOECHLIN et al. OMP, Toulouse	Multiwavelenght Focusing with the Sun as Gravitational Lens

Focal plane instrumentation

	Tadayuki TAKAHASHI ISAS, Sagamihara Kanagawa	A Si/CdTe Compton Camera for gamma-ray lens experiment
	Ezio CAROLI et al. INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna	Polarisation meas. with a CdTe pixel array detector for Laue hard X-ray focusing telesc.
	Ernst Jan BUIS et al. Cosine Science and Computing, Leiden	New scintillators for focal plane detectors in gamma-ray missions
	C. WUNDERER et al. Space Sciences Lab., UC Berkeley	Simulated performance of dedicated Ge-strip Compton telescopes as γ-lens focal plane instr.
	Georg WEIDENSPOINTNER et al. CESR, Toulouse	Monte Carlo Study of Detector Concepts for the MAX Laue Lens Gamma-Ray Telescope
	S. BOGGS et al. Space Sciences Lab., UC Berkeley	Performance of the Nuclear Compton Telescope
	Robert ANDRITSCHKE et al. MPE, Garching	The Compton and pair creation telescope MEGA
	Ezio CAROLI  et al. INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Bologna	A focal plane detector design for a wide-band Laue-lens telescope

Ground facilities and Flight systems for focusing telescopes

	Philippe LAPORTE et al. CNES, Toulouse	The Claire gondola: Testing the first gamma-ray lens on a stratospheric balloon
	Jacques BORDE ASTRIUM, Toulouse	Small-sat Platforms and Formation Flying :an opportunity for the gamma ray telescope MAX
	Emmanuel HINGLAIS CNES, Toulouse	Distributed space segment architectures for high energy astrophysic: Similarities and specificities
	R. CLEDASSOU & Ph. FERRANDO CNES, Toulouse	SIMBOL-X: An hard X-ray formation flying mission
	Paul DUCHON CNES, Toulouse	MAX Formation Flying for nuclear astrophysics
	Xavier LEYRE et al. Alcatel Alenia Space, Cannes	Recent Advances and Low cost concept for the Gamma-Ray Lens Project MAX
	Michael Freyberg et al. INAF, Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera	The MPE X-ray test facility PANTER: Calibration of hard X-ray (15–50 kev) optics
	John KRIZMANIC USRA/NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt	Formation Flying for a Fresnel Lens Observatory Mission
	Gianluca LOFFREDO et al. INFN, Dipartimento di Fisica, Ferrara	The Ferrara hard X-ray facility for testing/ calibrating hard X-ray focusing telescopes

Update : 23 October 2006
Questions and comments : Peter von Ballmoos