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

Experimental Astronomy

Volumn 20, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 241-251

  Frontera, F ^a   Pisa, A ^a   Loffredo, G ^a   Pellicciotta, D ^a   Carassiti, V ^b   Evangelisti, F ^b   Andersen, K ^c   Courtois, P ^c   Amati, L ^d   Caroli, E ^d   Franceschini, T ^d   Landini, G ^d   Silvestri, S ^d   Stephen, J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI FERRARA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUT LAUE LANGEVIN   (France)

^d OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Focusing telescopes; Gamma ray instrumentation; Gamma ray source observations; Laue lenses

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751104191     PISSN: 09226435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-006-9050-5     Document Type: Article

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