HAXTEL: A Laue lens telescope development project for a deep exploration of the hard X-ray sky (> 60 keV)

• DOI: 10.1007/s10686-006-9050-5
• Publication Date: 2006-10-07T07:38:15Z
• Authors: 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
• Keywords: X-ray telescope

A review of the HAXTEL project devoted to the development of a Laue lens telescope for hard X-/gamma-ray observation of the continuum spectra of celestial sources is presented. Main design properties, open issues, the status of the project and an example of multi-lens configuration with sensitivity expectations are discussed.