Status of the GAMMA-400 project

Galper, A. M.; Adriani, O.; Aptekar, R. L.; Arkhangelskaja, I. V.; Arkhangelskiy, A. I.; Boezio, M.; Bonvicini, V.; Boyarchuk, K. A.; Gusakov, Y. V.; Farber, M. O.; Fradkin, M. I.; Kachanov, V. A.; Kaplin, V. A.; Kheymits, M. D.; Leonov, A. A.; Longo, Francesco; Maestro, P.; Marrocchesi, P.; Mazets, E. P.; Mocchiutti, Emiliano; Moiseev, A. A.; Mori, N.; Moskalenko, I.; Naumov, P. Y.; Papini, P.; Picozza, P.; Rodin, V. G.; Runtso, M. F.; Sparvoli, R.; Spillantini, P.; Suchkov, S. I.; Tavani, M.; Topchiev, N. P.; Vacchi, Andrea; Vannuccini, E.; Yurkin, Y. T.; Zampa, N.; Zverev, V. G.

doi:10.1016/j.asr.2012.01.019

The preliminary design of the new space gamma-ray telescope GAMMA-400 for the energy range 100 MeV–3 TeV is presented. The angular resolution of the instrument, 1–2° at Eγ ∼ 100 MeV and ∼0.01° at Eγ > 100 GeV, its energy resolution ∼1% at Eγ > 100 GeV, and the proton rejection factor ∼106 are optimized to address a broad range of science topics, such as search for signatures of dark matter, studies of Galactic and extragalactic gamma-ray sources, Galactic and extragalactic diffuse emission, gamma-ray bursts, as well as high-precision measurements of spectra of cosmic-ray electrons, positrons, and nuclei.

Status of the GAMMA-400 project / A. M., G., O., A., R. L., A., I. V., A., A. I., A., M., B., V., B., K. A., B., Y. V., G., M. O., F., M. I., F., V. A., K., V. A., K., M. D., K., A. A., L., Longo, F., P., M., P., M., E. P., M., Mocchiutti, E., et al.. - In: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH. - ISSN 0273-1177. - 51:(2013), pp. 297-300. [10.1016/j.asr.2012.01.019]