The Narrow Field Telescope on board the ASTENA mission

E. Virgilli; F. Frontera; E. Caroli; J. B. Stephen; N. Auricchio; P. Rosati; V. Carassiti; S. Squerzanti; C. Guidorzi; L. Bassani; R. Campana; F. Fuschino; R. Gilli; C. Labanti; A. Malizia; M. Orlandini; L. Amati; S. DelSordo; G. Stratta; G. Ghirlanda; I. Kuvvetli; S. Brandt; C. Budtz-Jørgensen; R. M. Curado Da Silva; M. Moita; J. M. Maia; P. Laurent

The Narrow Field Telescope on board the ASTENA mission

E. Virgilli^*, F. Frontera, E. Caroli, J. B. Stephen, N. Auricchio, P. Rosati, V. Carassiti, S. Squerzanti, C. Guidorzi, L. Bassani, R. Campana, F. Fuschino, R. Gilli, C. Labanti, A. Malizia, M. Orlandini, L. Amati, S. DelSordo, G. Stratta, G. GhirlandaI. Kuvvetli, S. Brandt, C. Budtz-Jørgensen, R. M. Curado Da Silva, M. Moita, J. M. Maia, P. Laurent

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Abstract

The ASTENA mission concept consists of a broad band Wide Field Monitor Imager and Spectrometer and a broad band Narrow Field Telescope. The latter is a Laue lens (∼3 m diameter, 20 m focal length) sensitive to the 50 - 600 keV energy pass-band made of Silicon and Germanium cylindrical bent crystals. Such crystals allow the radiation to be focused into a narrow point spread function never achieved so far. In the presented configuration the instrument field of view is ∼ 4 arcmin with angular resolution of ∼30 arcsec. The Laue lens is coupled with a high efficiency (>80% above 600 keV) focal plane position sensitive detector, with 3D spatial resolution of 300 μm in the (X,Y) plane, fine spectroscopic response (1% at 511 keV) and polarization sensitivity. In this paper we present an overview on the satellite configuration and we mainly focus on the Narrow Field Telescope design and performances estimated with Monte Carlo simulations.

Original language	English
Journal	Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana - Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society
Volume	90
Issue number	1-2
Pages (from-to)	252-255
ISSN	1824-016X
Publication status	Published - 2019
Event	12th INTEGRAL conference, 1st AHEAD Gamma-Ray Workshop : INTEGRAL looks AHEAD to Multimessenger astronomy - Campus Biotech, 9 Chemin des Mines, Geneva, Switzerland Duration: 11 Feb 2019 → 15 Feb 2019 https://www.astro.unige.ch/integral2019/

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Conference	12th INTEGRAL conference, 1st AHEAD Gamma-Ray Workshop
Location	Campus Biotech, 9 Chemin des Mines
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Geneva
Period	11/02/2019 → 15/02/2019
Internet address	https://www.astro.unige.ch/integral2019/

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GRBs
Hard X-/soft gamma-rays
Instrumentation: focusing telescopes
Nuclear astrophysics

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Virgilli, E., Frontera, F., Caroli, E., Stephen, J. B., Auricchio, N., Rosati, P., Carassiti, V., Squerzanti, S., Guidorzi, C., Bassani, L., Campana, R., Fuschino, F., Gilli, R., Labanti, C., Malizia, A., Orlandini, M., Amati, L., DelSordo, S., Stratta, G., ... Laurent, P. (2019). The Narrow Field Telescope on board the ASTENA mission. Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana - Journal of the Italian Astronomical Society, 90(1-2), 252-255.

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