The e-ASTROGAM space mission: a major step forward for supernova physics. Issue Volume 12:Issue S331(2017) (17th October 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tatischeff, Vincent; Diehl, Roland; De Angelis, Alessandro
• Editors: Marcowith, A.; Renaud, M.; Dubner, G.; Ray, A.; Bykov, A.
• Is Part Of: Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. Volume 12:Issue S331(2017)
• Page Start: 351
• Page End: 356
• Publication Date: 2017-10-17
• Subjects: Gamma rays: observations, -- telescopes, -- radiation mechanisms: nonthermal, -- supernovae: general, -- supernova remnants, -- cosmic rays; Astronomy -- Congresses; Astronomy -- Periodicals; 520
• DOI: 10.1017/S1743921317004410
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1743-9213

Abstract

Abstract: e-ASTROGAM is a gamma-ray observatory operating in a broad energy range, 0.15 MeV – 3 GeV, recently proposed as the M5 Medium-size mission of the European Space Agency. It has the potential to revolutionize the astronomy of medium-energy gamma-rays by increasing the number of known sources in this domain by more than an order of magnitude and providing gamma-ray polarization information for many of these sources. In these proceedings, we discuss the expected capacity of the mission to study the physics of supernovae, both thermonuclear and core-collapse, as well as the origin of cosmic rays in SN shocks.