Speaker
Elena Orlando
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Description
We present an innovative mission concept that builds upon the heritage of past and current missions improving the sensitivity and, very importantly, the angular resolution. This consists in combining a Compton telescope and a coded-mask telescope. The Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton Telescope (GECCO) is a novel concept for a next-generation telescope covering hard X-ray and soft gamma-ray energies. With the unprecedented angular resolution of the coded mask telescope combined with the sensitive Compton telescope, a mission such as GECCO can disentangle the discrete sources from the truly diffuse emission.
We present the GECCO mission and its science as recently published in JCAP07(2022)036.
Primary authors
Elena Orlando
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare)
Eugenio Bottacini
A. Moiseev
GECCO Team
