Jacques Paul, Michel Casse, Elisabeth Vangioni-Flam
Published 2001-03-12Version 1
We briefly review the fundamentals of nuclear gamma-ray line astronomy (radioactive astronomy), focusing on its role to decipher the intimate physics of supernovae, either immediatly (via $^{56}Co)$ or after a time delay (via $^{44}Ti$). All kinds of supernovae can be in principle tested through their radioactivities and their associated gamma-ray lines. Dedicated to the spectroscopy and imaging of celestial sources in the 15 keV to 10 MeV band, the ESA scientific observatory INTEGRAL will open a golden age of nuclear astrophysics in Europe
Comments: Invited review, "Cosmic Evolution", meeting in honor of the 60th birthday of Jean Audouze and Jim Truran, to be published by World Scientific, 6 pages, 1 figure
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