Compton Large Area Silicon Timing Tracker for Cosmic Vision M3

F. Lebrun (1) , F. Aharonian , V. Beckmann (2) , W. Bertoli (2) , J.-M. Brom (3) , A. Bykov , S. Brandt , T. Bulik , C. Budtz-Jorgensen , I. Caballero (4) , J. Cohen-Tanugi (5) , A. Creusot (2) , F. Daigne (6) , M. Denis , L. Drury , Y. Gallant (5) , N. Gehrels , U. Goerlach (3) , D. Götz (4) , C. Hamadache (7) , W. Hermsen , J. Kiener (7) , L. Kuiper , G. Lamanna (8) , Philippe Laurent (1) , O. Limousin (4) , F. Mattana (2) , Alexandre Marcowith (5) , T. Neubert , C. Olivetto (2) , P. Orleanski , E. Parizot (2) , Jean-Louis Pinçon (9) , T. Pradier (3) , S. Schanne (4) , N. de Séréville (10) , S. Soldi (4) , Matthieu Renaud (5) , Michel Tagger (9) , V. Tatischeff (7) , R. Terrier (2) , R. Walter , S. Watanabe , J.A. Zurita Heras (2)

1 APC - AHE - APC - Astrophysique des Hautes Energies
2 APC (UMR_7164) - AstroParticule et Cosmologie
3 IPHC - Institut Pluridisciplinaire Hubert Curien
4 AIM (UMR7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation
5 LPTA - Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Astroparticules
6 IAP - Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
7 CSNSM - Centre de Spectrométrie Nucléaire et de Spectrométrie de Masse
8 LAPP - Laboratoire d'Annecy de Physique des Particules
9 LPCE - Laboratoire de physique et chimie de l'environnement
10 IPNO - Institut de Physique Nucléaire d'Orsay

Proposed in response to the ESA call for the third Medium size mission (M3), CAPSiTT is a small mission designed for a 3-year survey of the non-thermal high energy sky from an equatorial LEO orbit. With a large effective area and a very wide field of view, its single instrument, a silicon tracker, provides good imaging, spectroscopic and polarimetric capabilities with a sensitivity 10-100 times better than COMPTEL. Nucleosynthesis and particle acceleration mechanisms in various sites are the main scientific topics addressed by CAPSiTT.

Domaines: Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]; Phénomènes cosmiques de haute energie [astro-ph.HE]

F. Lebrun, F. Aharonian, V. Beckmann, W. Bertoli, J.-M. Brom, et al.. Compton Large Area Silicon Timing Tracker for Cosmic Vision M3. 8th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Restless Gamma-ray Universe", Sep 2010, Dublin, Ireland. pp.34. ⟨in2p3-00671014⟩