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2. EUSO-SPB1 Mission and Science
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Collaboration, JEM-EUSO, Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams. Jr., J. H., Allard, D., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arnone, E., Asano, K., Attallah, R., Attoui, H., Pernas, M. Ave, Bachmann, R., Bacholle, S., Bagheri, M., Bakiri, M., Baláz, J., Barghini, D., Bartocci, S., Battisti, M., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Bellotti, R., Belov, A. A., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Bertone, P. F., Biermann, P. L., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blanc, N., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bolmgren, K., Bozzo, E., Briz, S., Bruno, A., Caballero, K. S., Cafagna, F., Cambié, G., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J. N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Černý, K., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M. J., Colalillo, R., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Cummings, A., Gónzalez, A. de Castro, de la Taille, C., del Peral, L., Desiato, J., Damian, A. Diaz, Diesing, R., Dinaucourt, P., Djakonow, A., Djemil, T., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, G., Finch, W., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini, S., Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Gardiol, D., Garipov, G. K., Gascón, E., Gazda, E., Genci, J., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Gregg, R., Green, A., Guarino, F., Guépin, C., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haungs, A., Heigbes, T., Carretero, J. Hernández, Hulett, L., Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Jochum, J., Joven, E., Judd, E. G., Jung, A., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Kasztelan, M., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B. A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P. A., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J. F., Królik, K., Kungel, V., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Licandro, J., Campano, L. López, Martínez, F. López, Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Mandát, D., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marcos, J. L., Marszał, W., Martín, Y., Martinez, O., Mase, K., Mastafa, M., Matthews, J. N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Mese, M., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S. S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Ríos, J. A. Morales de los, Nachtman, J. M., Nagataki, S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M. I., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Pastircak, B., Paul, T., Pech, M., Pérez-Grande, I., Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado, S., Piotrowski, L. W., Piraino, S., Plebaniak, Z., Pollini, A., Popescu, E. M., Prevete, R., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Przybylak, M., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Reyes, M., Ricci, M., Frías, M. D. Rodríguez, Matamala, O. F. Romero, Ronga, F., Sabau, M. D., Saccá, G., Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Sánchez, J. L., Balanzar, J. C. Sanchez, Santangelo, A., Sanz-Andrés, A., Saprykin, O. A., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Scagliola, A., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Serra, M., Sharakin, S. A., Shimizu, H. M., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Sotgiu, A., Stan, I., Strharský, I., Sugiyama, N., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M. C., Tameda, Y., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S. B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L. G., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Valdés-Galicia, J. F., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Venters, T. M., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts. Jr., J., Muñoz, R. Weigand, Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Yamamoto, T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I. V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I. S., Zotov, M. Yu., and Marchi, A. Zuccaro
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 (EUSO-SPB1) was launched in 2017 April from Wanaka, New Zealand. The plan of this mission of opportunity on a NASA super pressure balloon test flight was to circle the southern hemisphere. The primary scientific goal was to make the first observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray extensive air showers (EASs) by looking down on the atmosphere with an ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence telescope from suborbital altitude (33~km). After 12~days and 4~hours aloft, the flight was terminated prematurely in the Pacific Ocean. Before the flight, the instrument was tested extensively in the West Desert of Utah, USA, with UV point sources and lasers. The test results indicated that the instrument had sensitivity to EASs of approximately 3 EeV. Simulations of the telescope system, telescope on time, and realized flight trajectory predicted an observation of about 1 event assuming clear sky conditions. The effects of high clouds were estimated to reduce this value by approximately a factor of 2. A manual search and a machine-learning-based search did not find any EAS signals in these data. Here we review the EUSO-SPB1 instrument and flight and the EAS search., Comment: 18 pages, 19 figures
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3. JEM-EUSO Collaboration contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference
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Abe, S., Adams Jr., J. H., Allard, D., Alldredge, P., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arnone, E., Bagheri, M., Baret, B., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Bellotti, R., Belov, A. A., Bertaina, M., Bertone, P. F., Bianciotto, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin-Bondil, S., Bolmgren, K., Briz, S., Burton, J., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Campana, D., Capel, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Černý, K., Christl, M. J., Colalillo, R., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Cummings, A., Gónzalez, A. de Castro, de la Taille, C., Diesing, R., Dinaucourt, P., Di Nola, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, G., Finch, W. W., Flaminio, F., Fornaro, C., Fuehne, D., Fuglesang, C., Fukushima, M., Gadamsetty, S., Gardiol, D., Garipov, G. K., Gazda, E., Golzio, A., Guarino, F., Guépin, C., Haungs, A., Heibges, T., Isgrò, F., Judd, E. G., Kajino, F., Kaneko, I., Kim, S. -W., Klimov, P. A., Krizmanic, J. F., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, E., Martínez, F. López, Mandát, D., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, A., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Matthews, J. N., Mese, M., Meyer, S. S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Nagataki, S., Nachtman, J. M., Naumov, D., Neronov, A., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Pagliaro, A., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Paul, T., Pech, M., Perfetto, F., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Posligua, J., Potts, M., Prevete, R., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Matamala, O. F. Romero, Romoli, G., Sagawa, H., Sakaki, N., Saprykin, O. A., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Selmane, S., Sharakin, S. A., Shinozaki, K., Stepanoff, S., Soriano, J. F., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Thomas, S. B., Tkachev, L. G., Tomida, T., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Trofimov, D., Tsuno, K., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Venters, T. M., Vigorito, C., Vrábel, M., Wada, S., Watts Jr., J., Wiencke, L., Winn, D., Wistrand, H., Yashin, I. V., Young, R., and Zotov, M. Yu.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
This is a collection of papers presented by the JEM-EUSO Collaboration at the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Nagoya, Japan, July 26-August 3, 2023)
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4. Developments and results in the context of the JEM-EUSO program obtained with the ESAF Simulation and Analysis Framework
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Abe, S., Adams Jr., J. H., Allard, D., Alldredge, P., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arnone, E., Baret, B., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Bayer, J., Bellotti, R., Belov, A. A., Bertaina, M., Bertone, P. F., Bianciotto, M., Biermann, P. L., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bolmgren, K., Briz, S., Burton, J., Cafagna, F., Cambié, G., Campana, D., Capel, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Černý, K., Christl, M. J., Colalillo, R., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Cummings, A., Gónzalez, A. de Castro, de la Taille, C., del Peral, L., Diesing, R., Dinaucourt, P., Di Nola, A., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, G., Finch, W. W., Flaminio, F., Fornaro, C., Fuehne, D., Fuglesang, C., Fukushima, M., Gardiol, D., Garipov, G. K., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Guarino, F., Guépin, C., Guzmán, A., Haungs, A., Heibges, T., Hernández-Carretero, J., Isgrò, F., Judd, E. G., Kajino, F., Kaneko, I., Kawasaki, Y., Kleifges, M., Klimov, P. A., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J. F., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, E., Martínez, F. López, Mackovjak, S., Mandát, D., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, A., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Matthews, J. N., Menshikov, A., Mernik, T., Mese, M., Meyer, S. S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Ríos, J. A Morales de los, Nagataki, S., Nachtman, J. M., Naumov, D., Neronov, A., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Pagliaro, A., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Pastircak, B., Paul, T., Pech, M., Perfetto, F., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Posligua, J., Prevete, R., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Przybylak, M., Putis, M., Reali, E., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Frías, M. Rodríguez, Romoli, G., Cano, G. Sáez, Sagawa, H., Sakaki, N., Santangelo, A., Saprykin, O. A., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Schieler, H., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Selmane, S., Sharakin, S. A., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S. B., Tkachev, L. G., Tomida, T., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Trofimov, D., Tsuno, K., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Venters, T. M., Vigorito, C., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watts Jr., J., Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wilms, J., Winn, D., Wistrand, H., Yashin, I. V., Young, R., and Zotov, M. Yu.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
JEM--EUSO is an international program for the development of space-based Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray observatories. The program consists of a series of missions which are either under development or in the data analysis phase. All instruments are based on a wide-field-of-view telescope, which operates in the near-UV range, designed to detect the fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers in the atmosphere. We describe the simulation software ESAFin the framework of the JEM--EUSO program and explain the physical assumptions used. We present here the implementation of the JEM--EUSO, POEMMA, K--EUSO, TUS, Mini--EUSO, EUSO--SPB1 and EUSO--TA configurations in ESAF. For the first time ESAF simulation outputs are compared with experimental data.
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5. Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector
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Casolino, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Blaksley, C., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bianciotto, M., Bisconti, F., Blin, S., Bolmgren, K., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Churilo, I., Crisconio, M., De La Taille, C., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M. A., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kasuga, H., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Kuznetsov, V., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Mascetti, G., Marsza, W., Miyamoto, H., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Romoli, G., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Valentini, G., Vrabel, M., and Wiencke, L.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth from the International Space Station since 2019. The instrument employs a Fresnel-lens optical system and a focal surface composed of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes, 64 channels each, for a total of 2304 channels with single photon counting sensitivity. Mini-EUSO also contains two ancillary cameras to complement measurements in the near infrared and visible ranges. The scientific objectives of the mission range from the search for extensive air showers generated by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) with energies above 10$^{21}$ eV, the search for nuclearites and Strange Quark Matter (SQM), up to the study of atmospheric phenomena such as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), meteors and meteoroids. Mini-EUSO can map the night-time Earth in the near UV range (between 290-430 nm) with a spatial resolution of about 6.3 km (full field of view of 44{\deg}) and a maximum temporal resolution of 2.5 $\mu$s, observing our planet through a nadir-facing UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module. The detector saves triggered transient phenomena with a sampling rate of 2.5 $\mu$s and 320 $\mu$s, as well as continuous acquisition at 40.96 ms scale. In this paper we discuss the detector response and the flat-fielding and calibration procedures. Using the 40.96 ms data, we present $\simeq$6.3 km resolution night-time Earth maps in the UV band, and report on various emissions of anthropogenic and natural origin. We measure ionospheric airglow emissions of dark moonless nights over the sea and ground, studying the effect of clouds, moonlight, and artificial (towns, boats) lights. In addition to paving the way forward for the study of long-term variations of natural and artificial light, we also estimate the observation live-time of future UHECR detectors., Comment: 49 pages, 27 figures, 1 table, published in Remote Sensing of Environment
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6. PANDORA project: photo-nuclear reactions below $A=60$
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Tamii, A., Pellegri, L., Söderström, P. -A., Allard, D., Goriely, S., Inakura, T., Khan, E., Kido, E., Kimura, M., Litvinova, E., Nagataki, S., von Neumann-Cosel, P., Pietralla, N., Shimizu, N., Tsoneva, N., Utsuno, Y., Adachi, S., Adsley, P., Bahini, A., Balabanski, D., Baret, B., Bekker, J. A. C., Binda, S. D., Boicu, E., Bracco, A., Brandherm, I., Brezeanu, M., Brummer, J. W., Camera, F., Crespi, F. C. L., Dalal, R., Donaldson, L. M., Fujikawa, Y., Furuno, T., Haoning, H., Honda, Y., Gavrilescu, A., Inoue, A., Isaak, J., Jivan, H., Jones, P. M., Jongile, S., Just, O., Kawabata, T., Khumalo, T., Kiener, J., Kleemann, J., Kobayashi, N., Koshio, Y., Kuşoğlu, A., Li, K. C. W., Malatji, K. L., Molaeng, R. E., Motoki, H., Murata, M., Netshiya, A. A., Neveling, R., Niina, R., Okamoto, S., Ota, S., Papst, O., Parizot, E., Petruse, T., Reen, M. S., Ring, P., Sakanashi, K., Sideras-Haddad, E., Siem, S., Spall, M., Suda, T., Sudo, T., Taniguchi, Y., Tatischeff, V., Utsunomiya, H., Wang, H., Werner, V., Wibowo, H., Wiedeking, M., Wieland, O., Xu, Y., and Yang, Z. H.
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Nuclear Experiment ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Nuclear Theory - Abstract
Photo-nuclear reactions of light nuclei below a mass of $A=60$ are studied experimentally and theoretically by the PANDORA (Photo-Absorption of Nuclei and Decay Observation for Reactions in Astrophysics) project. Two experimental methods, virtual-photon excitation by proton scattering and real-photo absorption by a high-brilliance gamma-ray beam produced by laser Compton scattering, will be applied to measure the photo-absorption cross sections and the decay branching ratio of each decay channel as a function of the photon energy. Several nuclear models, e.g. anti-symmetrized molecular dynamics, mean-field type models, a large-scale shell model, and ab initio models, will be employed to predict the photo-nuclear reactions. The uncertainty in the model predictions will be evaluated from the discrepancies between the model predictions and the experimental data. The data and the predictions will be implemented in a general reaction calculation code TALYS . The results will be applied to the simulation of the photo-disintegration process of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays in inter-galactic propagation.
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7. Description and performance results of the trigger logic of TUS and Mini-EUSO to search for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from space
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Bertaina, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bianciotto, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Bolmgren, K., Cambie, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M. A., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszal, W., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Napolitano, T., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prevot, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Sharakin, S., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Vrabel, M., Yashin, I., and Zotov, M.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
The trigger logic of the Tracking Ultraviolet Setup (TUS) and Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (Mini-EUSO) space-based projects of the Joint Experiment Missions - EUSO (JEM-EUSO) program is summarized. The performance results on the search for ultra-high energy cosmic rays are presented.
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8. Detection limits and trigger rates for ultra-high energy cosmic ray detection with the EUSO-TA ground-based fluorescence telescope
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Adams, J.H., Jr., Anchordoqui, L., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A.A., Belz, J.W., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin-Bondil, S., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Cummings, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Falk, S., Fenu, F., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, G., Fouka, M., Fuglesang, C., Gorodetzky, P., Guarino, F., Haungs, A., Inoue, N., Kajino, F., Klimov, P.A., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mashiyama, H., Matthews, J.N., Miyamoto, H., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A.V., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L.W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sagawa, H., Sahnoun, Z., Sakaki, N., Shin, H., Shinozaki, K., Sokolsky, P., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Takizawa, Y., Tameda, Y., Thomson, G.B., Vrabel, M., Wiencke, L., and Zotov, M.Yu.
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9. An end-to-end calibration of the Mini-EUSO detector in space
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Battisti, M., Bertaina, M., Parizot, E., Abrate, M., Barghini, D., Belov, A., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin, S., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Churilo, I., Coretti, A.G., Crisconio, M., De La Taille, C., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M.A., Fuglesang, C., Gallian, S., Gardiol, D., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Kasuga, H., Klimov, P., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, V., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mascetti, G., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L.W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Reynaud, F., Ricci, M., Romoli, G., Sharakin, S., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Vagelli, V., Valentini, G., Vrabel, M., Wiencke, L., and Zotov, M.
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10. Status of the K-EUSO Orbital Detector of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays
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Klimov, P., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bianciotto, M., Blin-Bondil, S., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Fuglesang, C., Marszał, W., Neronov, A., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Sakaki, M. Przybylak N., Sharakin, S., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Trofimov, D., Yashin, I., and Zotov, M.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
K-EUSO (KLYPVE-EUSO) is a planned orbital mission aimed at studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by detecting fluorescence and Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers in the nocturnal atmosphere of Earth in the ultraviolet (UV) range. The observatory is being developed within the JEM-EUSO collaboration and is planned to be deployed on the International Space Station after 2025 and operated for at least two years. The telescope, consisting of $\sim10^{5}$ independent pixels, will allow a spatial resolution of $\sim0.6$ km on the ground, and, from a 400 km altitude, it will achieve a large and full sky exposure to sample the highest energy range of the UHECR spectrum. We provide a comprehensive review of the current status of the development of the K-EUSO experiment, paying special attention to its hardware parts and expected performance. We demonstrate how results of the K-EUSO mission can complement the achievements of the existing ground-based experiments and push forward the intriguing studies of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, as well as bring new knowledge about other phenomena manifesting themselves in the atmosphere in the UV range., Comment: 26 pages
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11. JEM-EUSO Collaboration contributions to the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference
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Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams Jr., J. H., Allard, D., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arnone, E., Asano, K., Attallah, R., Attoui, H., Pernas, M. Ave, Bagheri, M., Baláz, J., Bakiri, M., Barghini, D., Bartocci, S., Battisti, M., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Bellotti, R., Belov, A. A., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Bertone, P. F., Biermann, P. L., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blanc, N., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bolmgren, K., Bozzo, E., Briz, S., Bruno, A., Caballero, K. S., Cafagna, F., Cambié, G., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J-N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Carlson, P., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Černý, K., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M. J., Colalillo, R., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Gónzalez, A. de Castro, de la Taille, C., del Peral, L., Damian, A. Diaz, Diesing, R., Dinaucourt, P., Djakonow, A., Djemil, T., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, G., Fornaro, W. I. Finch C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini, S., Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Gardiol, D., Garipov, G. K., Gascón, E., Gazda, E., Genci, J., Golzio, A., Alvarado, C. González, Gorodetzky, P., Green, A., Guarino, F., Guépin, C., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haungs, A., Carretero, J. Hernández, Hulett, L., Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Joven, E., Judd, E. G., Jochum, J., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Karadzhov, Y., Kasztelan, M., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B. A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P. A., Kolev, D., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J. F., Królik, K., Kungel, V., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Licandro, J., Campano, L. López, Martínez, F. López, Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Mandát, D., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marcos, J. L., Marszał, W., Martín, Y., Martinez, O., Mase, K., Matev, R., Matthews, J. N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Mese, M., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S. S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Ríos, J. A. Morales de los, Mastafa, M., Nagataki, S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Neronov, J. M. Nachtman A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Osteria, Y. Onel G., Otte, A. N., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M. I., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Pastircak, B., Paul, T., Pech, M., Pérez-Grande, I., Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado, S., Piotrowski, L. W., Piraino, S., Plebaniak, Z., Pollini, A., Popescu, E. M., Prevete, R., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Przybylak, M., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Reyes, M., Ricci, M., Frías, M. D. Rodríguez, Matamala, O. F. Romero, Ronga, F., Sabau, M. D., Saccá, G., Cano, G. Sáez, Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Balanzar, J. C. Sanchez, Sánchez, J. L., Santangelo, A., Sanz-Andrés, A., Palomino, M. Sanz, Saprykin, O. A., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Scagliola, A., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Serra, M., Sharakin, S. A., Shimizu, H. M., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Sotgiu, A., Stan, I., Strharský, I., Sugiyama, N., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M. C., Tameda, Y., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S. B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L. G., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Vaduvescu, O., Valdés-Galicia, J. F., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Venters, T. M., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts Jr., J., Muñoz, R. Weigand, Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Yamamoto, D. Winn T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I. V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I. S., Zotov, M. Yu., and Marchi, A. Zuccaro
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Compilation of papers presented by the JEM-EUSO Collaboration at the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), held on July 12-23, 2021 (online) in Berlin, Germany., Comment: html page with links to the JEM-EUSO Collaboration papers presented at ICRC-2021, Berlin, Germany
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12. Towards observations of nuclearites in Mini-EUSO
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Piotrowski, L. W., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Bolmgren, K., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Franceschi, A., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzki, P., Kajino, F., Kasuga, H., Klimov, P., Kungel, V., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Miyamoto, H., Mignone, M., Napolitano, T., Osteria, G., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Wada, S., and Wiencke, L.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Mini-EUSO is a small orbital telescope with a field of view of $44^{\circ}\times 44^{\circ}$, observing the night-time Earth mostly in 320-420 nm band. Its time resolution spanning from microseconds (triggered) to milliseconds (untriggered) and more than $300\times 300$ km of the ground covered, already allowed it to register thousands of meteors. Such detections make the telescope a suitable tool in the search for hypothetical heavy compact objects, which would leave trails of light in the atmosphere due to their high density and speed. The most prominent example are the nuclearites -- hypothetical lumps of strange quark matter that could be stabler and denser than the nuclear matter. In this paper, we show potential limits on the flux of nuclearites after collecting 42 hours of observations data., Comment: To be published in the Proceedings of the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021), Berlin, 12 -23 July 2021
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13. The Mini-EUSO telescope on board the International Space Station: Launch and first results
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Casolino, M, Barghini, D, Battisti, M, Belov, A, Bertaina, M, Bisconti, F, Blaksley, C, Bolmgren, K, Cafagna, F, Cambiè, G, Capel, F, Ebisuzaki, T, Fenu, F, Franceschi, A, Fuglesang, C, Golzio, A, Gorodetzki, P, Kajino, F, Kasuga, H, Klimov, P, Kungel, V., Manfrin, M, Marszał, W, Miyamoto, H, Mignone, M, Napolitano, T, Osteria, G, Parizot, E, Picozza, P, Piotrowski, L W, Plebaniak, Z, Prévôt, G, Reali, E, Ricci, M, Sakaki, N, Shinozaki, K, Takizawa, Y, Wada, S, and Wiencke, L.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
Mini-EUSO is a telescope launched on board the International Space Station in 2019 and currently located in the Russian section of the station. Main scientific objectives of the mission are the search for nuclearites and Strange Quark Matter, the study of atmospheric phenomena such as Transient Luminous Events, meteors and meteoroids, the observation of sea bioluminescence and of artificial satellites and man-made space debris. It is also capable of observing Extensive Air Showers generated by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with an energy above 10$^{21}$ eV and detect artificial showers generated with lasers from the ground. Mini-EUSO can map the night-time Earth in the UV range (290 - 430 nm), with a spatial resolution of about 6.3 km and a temporal resolution of 2.5 $\mu$s, observing our planet through a nadir-facing UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module. The instrument, launched on 2019/08/22 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, is based on an optical system employing two Fresnel lenses and a focal surface composed of 36 Multi-Anode Photomultiplier tubes, 64 channels each, for a total of 2304 channels with single photon counting sensitivity and an overall field of view of 44$^{\circ}$. Mini-EUSO also contains two ancillary cameras to complement measurements in the near infrared and visible ranges. In this paper we describe the detector and present the various phenomena observed in the first year of operation., Comment: 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 2021
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14. EUSO@TurLab project in view of Mini-EUSO and EUSO-SPB2 missions
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Miyamoto, H., Bertaina, M. E., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bisconti, F., Blin-Bondil, S., Bolmgren, K., Cambie, G., Capel, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Churilo, I., Contino, G., Cotto, G., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marengo, M., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Suino, G., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., and Youssef, A.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
The TurLab facility is a laboratory, equipped with a 5 m diameter and 1 m depth rotating tank, located in the fourth basement level of the Physics Department of the University of Turin. In the past years, we have used the facility to perform experiments related to the observations of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays (EECRs) from space using the fluorescence technique for JEM- EUSO missions with the main objective to test the response of the trigger logic. In the missions, the diffuse night brightness and artificial and natural light sources can vary significantly in time and space in the Field of View (FoV) of the telescope. Therefore, it is essential to verify the detector performance and test the trigger logic under such an environment. By means of the tank rotation, a various terrestrial surface with the different optical characteristics such as ocean, land, forest, desert and clouds, as well as artificial and natural light sources such as city lights, lightnings and meteors passing by the detector FoV one after the other is reproduced. The fact that the tank located in a very dark place enables the tests under an optically controlled environment. Using the Mini-EUSO data taken since 2019 onboard the ISS, we will report on the comparison between TurLab and ISS measurements in view of future experiments at TurLab. Moreover, in the forthcoming months we will start testing the trigger logic of the EUSO-SPB2 mission. We report also on the plans and status for this purpose.
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15. Simulations studies for the Mini-EUSO detector
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Miyamoto, H., Fenu, F., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M. E., Bisconti, F., Bonino, R., Cambie, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Churilo, I., Ebisuzaki, T., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Suino, G., Szabelski, J., and Takizawa, Y.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Mini-EUSO is a mission of the JEM-EUSO program flying onboard the International Space Station since August 2019. Since the first data acquisition in October 2019, more than 35 sessions have been performed for a total of 52 hours of observations. The detector has been observing Earth at night-time in the UV range and detected a wide variety of transient sources all of which have been modelled through Monte Carlo simulations. Mini-EUSO is also capable of detecting meteors and potentially space debris and we performed simulations for such events to estimate their impact on future missions for cosmic ray science from space. We show here examples of the simulation work done in this framework to analyse the Mini-EUSO data. The expected response of Mini-EUSO with respect to ultra high energy cosmic ray showers has been studied. The efficiency curve of Mini-EUSO as a function of primary energy has been estimated and the energy threshold for Cosmic Rays has been placed to be above 10^{21} eV. We compared the morphology of several transient events detected during the mission with cosmic ray simulations and excluded that they can be due to cosmic ray showers. To validate the energy threshold of the detector, a system of ground based flashers is being used for end-to-end calibration purposes. We therefore implemented a parameterisation of such flashers into the JEM-EUSO simulation framework and studied the response of the detector with respect to such sources.
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16. The Fluorescence Telescope on board EUSO-SPB2 for the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays
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Osteria, G., Adams, J., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Christi, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Filippatos, G., Fornaro, C., Guarino, F., Klimov, P., Kungel, V., Mackovjak, S., Mese, M., Miller, M., Miyamoto, H., Olinto, A., Onel, Y., Parizot, E., Pech, M., Perfetto, F., Piotrowski, L., Prevot, G., Reardon, P., Ricci, M., Sarazin, F., Scotti, V., Shinozaki, K., Shovanec, P., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Valore, L., and Wiencke, L.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
The Fluorescence Telescope is one of the two telescopes on board the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an ultra-long-duration balloon mission that aims at the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) via the fluorescence technique (using a Fluorescence Telescope) and of Ultra High Energy (UHE) neutrinos via Cherenkov emission (using a Cherenkov Telescope). The mission is planned to fly in 2023 and is a precursor of the Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA). The Fluorescence Telescope is a second generation instrument preceded by the telescopes flown on the EUSO-Balloon and EUSO-SPB1 missions. It features Schmidt optics and has a 1-meter diameter aperture. The focal surface of the telescope is equipped with a 6912-pixel Multi Anode Photo Multipliers (MAPMT) camera covering a 37.4 x 11.4 degree Field of Regard. Such a big Field of Regard, together with a flight target duration of up to 100 days, would allow, for the first time from suborbital altitudes, detection of UHECR fluorescence tracks. This contribution will provide an overview of the instrument including the current status of the telescope development., Comment: ICRC 2021
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17. What can be learnt from UHECR anisotropies observations? Paper I : large-scale anisotropies and composition features
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Allard, D., Aublin, J., Baret, B., and Parizot, E.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We investigate the implications of the current data regarding large scale anisotropies, and examine to what extent they can be used to constrain the origin of UHECRs and the astrophysical parameters of the source scenarios. We discuss the possibility of observing an associated anisotropy of the composition, the potential benefit of the separation of the different nuclear components and the interest of observing the UHECR sky with larger exposure future observatories. We simulate UHECR sky maps for various astrophysical scenarios satisfying the current observational constraints, taking into account the energy losses of the UHE protons and nuclei and their deflections by intervening magnetic fields. We investigate scenarios in which the UHECR source distribution follows that of the galaxies, varying the source composition and spectrum, the source density and the magnetic field models. We apply similar analyses as those used by the Auger collaboration. We find that: i) reproducing the observed dipole anisotropy and its energy evolution is relatively easy within our assumptions; ii) this agreement can be obtained with different sets of assumptions on the astrophysical parameters, and is thus not, at this stage, very constraining for UHECR source scenarios; iii) the actual reconstructed direction of the dipole appears non natural in essentially all scenarios investigated, and challenges their main assumptions on the source distribution or the assumed magnetic field configuration, especially in the Galaxy; iv) except for protons, the energy range in which the GZK horizon strongly reduces is a key target for anisotropy searches for each given nuclear species; v) The composition anisotropy naturally expected in our models is unlikely to account for that recently reported by Auger unless the observed amplitude is a strong positive statistical fluctuation of an intrinsically weaker signal., Comment: 39 pages, 32 figures
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18. The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) Observatory
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Olinto, A. V., Krizmanic, J., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Anzalone, A., Bagheri, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P. F., Bisconti, F., Bustamante, M., Cafagna, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Černý, K., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A. L., De Mitri, I., Diesing, R., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fang, K., Fenu, F., Filippatos, G., Gazda, E., Guepin, C., Haungs, A., Hays, E. A., Judd, E. G., Klimov, P., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, Š., Mandát, D., Marcelli, L., McEnery, J., Medina-Tanco, G., Merenda, K. -D., Meyer, S. S., Mitchell, J. W., Miyamoto, H., Nachtman, J. M., Neronov, A., Oikonomou, F., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Pech, M., Perkins, J. S., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Matamala, O. Romero, Sarazin, F., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Stecker, F., Takizawa, Y., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Venters, T. M., Wiencke, L., Winn, D., Young, R. M., and Zotov, M.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to accurately observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and cosmic neutrinos from space with sensitivity over the full celestial sky. POEMMA will observe the extensive air showers (EASs) from UHECRs and UHE neutrinos above 20 EeV via air fluorescence. Additionally, POEMMA will observe the Cherenkov signal from upward-moving EASs induced by Earth-interacting tau neutrinos above 20 PeV. The POEMMA spacecraft are designed to quickly re-orientate to follow up transient neutrino sources and obtain unparalleled neutrino flux sensitivity. Developed as a NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, POEMMA consists of two identical satellites flying in loose formation in 525 km altitude orbits. Each POEMMA instrument incorporates a wide field-of-view (45$^\circ$) Schmidt telescope with over 6 m$^2$ of collecting area. The hybrid focal surface of each telescope includes a fast (1~$\mu$s) near-ultraviolet camera for EAS fluorescence observations and an ultrafast (10~ns) optical camera for Cherenkov EAS observations. In a 5-year mission, POEMMA will provide measurements that open new multi-messenger windows onto the most energetic events in the universe, enabling the study of new astrophysics and particle physics at these otherwise inaccessible energies., Comment: 66 pages, 53 figures; JCAP accepted version
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19. Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 calibration: from the laboratory to the desert
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Adams Jr., J. H., Allen, L., Bachman, R., Bacholle, S., Barrillon, P., Bayer, J., Bertaina, M., Blaksley, C., Blin-Bondil, S., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Casolino, M., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A., Dagoret-Campagne, S., Damian, A. Diaz, Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Escobar, J., Eser, J., Evrard, J., Fenu, F., Finch, W., Fornaro, C., Gorodetzky, P., Gregg, R., Guarino, F., Haungs, A., Hedber, W., Hunt, P., Jung, A., Kawasaki, Y., Kleifges, M., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, S., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Medina-Tanco, G., Meyer, S. S., Miyamoto, H., Mastafa, M., Olinto, A. V., Osteria, G., Painter, W., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Perfetto, F., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Polonski, Z., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Rezazadeh, M., Ricci, M., Balanzar, J. C. Sanchez, Santangelo, A., Sarazin, F., Scotti, V., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Wiencke, L., Young, R., and von Ballmoos, P.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 (EUSO-SPB1) instrument was launched out of Wanaka, New Zealand, by NASA in April, 2017 as a mission of opportunity. The detector was developed as part of the Joint Experimental Missions for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (JEM-EUSO) program toward a space-based ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) telescope with the main objective to make the first observation of UHECRs via the fluorescence technique from suborbital space. The EUSO-SPB1 instrument is a refractive telescope consisting of two 1m$^2$ Fresnel lenses with a high-speed UV camera at the focal plane. The camera has 2304 individual pixels capable of single photoelectron counting with a time resolution of 2.5$\mu$s. A detailed performance study including calibration was done on ground. We separately evaluated the properties of the Photo Detector Module (PDM) and the optical system in the laboratory. An end-to-end test of the instrument was performed during a field campaign in the West Desert in Utah, USA at the Telescope Array (TA) site in September 2016. The campaign lasted for 8 nights. In this article we present the results of the preflight laboratory and field tests. Based on the tests performed in the field, it was determined that EUSO-SPB1 has a field of view of 11.1$^\circ$ and an absolute photo-detection efficiency of 10%. We also measured the light flux necessary to obtain a 50% trigger efficiency using laser beams. These measurements were crucial for us to perform an accurate post flight event rate calculation to validate our cosmic ray search. Laser beams were also used to estimated the reconstruction angular resolution. Finally, we performed a flat field measurement in flight configuration at the launch site prior to the launch providing a uniformity of the focal surface better than 6%.
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20. Mini-EUSO mission to study Earth UV emissions on board the ISS
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Bacholle, S., Barrillon, P., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin-Bondil, S., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Crisconio, M., Churilo, I., Cotto, G., de la Taille, C., Djakonow, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Franceschi, A., Fuglesang, C., Gorodetzky, P., Haungs, A., Kajino, F., Kasuga, H., Khrenov, B., Klimov, P., Kochepasov, S., Kuznetsov, V., Marcelli, L., Marszal, W., Mignone, M., Mascetti, G., Miyamoto, H., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Olinto, A. V., Ohmori, H., Osteria, G., Panasyuk, M., Porfilio, M., Poroshin, A., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prevot, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Turriziani, S., Valentini, M. Traiche G., Wada, S., Wiencke, L., Yashin, I., and Zuccaro-Marchi, A.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
Mini-EUSO is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band from the International Space Station. It is a part of the JEM-EUSO program, paving the way to future larger missions, such as KEUSO and POEMMA, devoted primarily to the observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from space. Mini-EUSO is capable of observing Extensive Air Showers generated by Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with an energy above 10^21 eV and detect artificial showers generated with lasers from the ground. Other main scientific objectives of the mission are the search for nuclearites and Strange Quark Matter, the study of atmospheric phenomena such as Transient Luminous Events, meteors and meteoroids, the observation of sea bioluminescence and of artificial satellites and man-made space debris. Mini-EUSO will map the night-time Earth in the UV range (290 - 430 nm), with a spatial resolution of about 6.3 km and a temporal resolution of 2.5 microseconds, through a nadir-facing UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module. The instrument, launched on August 22, 2019 from the Baikonur cosmodrome, is based on an optical system employing two Fresnel lenses and a focal surface composed of 36 Multi-Anode Photomultiplier tubes, 64 channels each, for a total of 2304 channels with single photon counting sensitivity and an overall field of view of 44 degrees. Mini-EUSO also contains two ancillary cameras to complement measurements in the near infrared and visible ranges. In this paper we describe the detector and present the various phenomena observed in the first months of operations., Comment: 23 pages, 20 figures
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21. Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: The Probe Of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA)
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Olinto, A. V., Sarazin, F., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Bagheri, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P. F., Bisconti, F., Bustamante, M., Casolino, M., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A. L., De Mitri, I., Diesing, R., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fang, K., Fillipatos, G., Fenu, F., Gazda, E., Guepin, C., Hays, E. A., Judd, E. G., Klimov, P., Krizmanic, J., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, S., Marcelli, L., McEnery, J., Merenda, K. -D., Meyer, S. S., Mitchell, J. W., Miyamoto, H., Nachtman, J. M., Neronov, A., Oikonomou, F., Onel, Y., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Perkins, J. S., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Prevot, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Matamala, O. Romero, Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Stecker, F., Takizawa, Y., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Venters, T. M., Wiencke, L., Winn, D., Young, R. M., and Zotov, M.
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The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to identify the sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) and to observe cosmic neutrinos, both with full-sky coverage. Developed as a NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, POEMMA consists of two spacecraft flying in a loose formation at 525 km altitude, 28.5 deg inclination orbits. Each spacecraft hosts a Schmidt telescope with a large collecting area and wide field of view. A novel focal plane is optimized to observe both the UV fluorescence signal from extensive air showers (EASs) and the beamed optical Cherenkov signals from EASs. In POEMMA-stereo fluorescence mode, POEMMA will measure the spectrum, composition, and full-sky distribution of the UHECRs above 20 EeV with high statistics along with remarkable sensitivity to UHE neutrinos. The spacecraft are designed to quickly re-orient to a POEMMA-limb mode to observe neutrino emission from Target-of-Opportunity (ToO) transient astrophysical sources viewed just below the Earth's limb. In this mode, POEMMA will have unique sensitivity to cosmic neutrino tau events above 20 PeV by measuring the upward-moving EASs induced by the decay of the emerging tau leptons following the interactions of neutrino tau inside the Earth., Comment: 3 pages, no figures, LoI for Snowmass 2021
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22. EUSO-BALLOON a pathfinder for detecting UHECR's from the edge of space
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Scotti V., Szabelski J., Roudil G., Frías M.D. Rodríguez, Ricci M., Picozza P., Prévôt G., Prieto H., Park I.H., Parizot E., Osteria G., Mot B., Kawasaki Y., Medina-Tanco G., Jung A., Haungs A., Gorodetzky Ph., Ebersoldt A., Ebisuzaki T., Dupieux M., Casolino M., Distratis G., Bertaina M., Cafagna F., Bayer J., Barrillon P., Adams J.H., Santangelo A., Dagoret S., von Ballmoos P., Takizawa Y., and Tsuno K.
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EUSO-Balloon has been conceived as a pathfinder mission for JEM-EUSO, to perform an end-to-end test of the subsystems and components, and to prove the global detection chain while improving our knowledge of the atmospheric and terrestrial UV background. Through a series of stratospheric balloon flights performed by the French Space Agency CNES, EUSO-BALLOON will serve as an evolutive test-bench for all the key technologies of JEM-EUSO. EUSO-Balloon also has the potential to detect Extensive Air Showers from above, marking a key milestone in the development of UHECR science, and paving the way for any future large scale, space-based UHECR observatory.
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23. The EUSO@TurLab project in the framework of the JEM-EUSO program
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Barrillon, P., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Blin-Bondil, S., Bonino, R., Capel, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Contino, G., Cotto, G., Dagoret-Campagne, S., Fenu, F., Fornaro, C., Forza, R., Gorodetzky, P., Guardone, N., Jung, A., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Mulas, R., Onorato, M., Parizot, E., Piotrowski, L., Plebaniak, Z., Prevot, G., Szabelski, J., Suino, G., Takizawa, Y., Tibaldi, P., Vigorito, C., and Youssef, A.
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24. Integration, qualification, and launch of the Mini-EUSO telescope on board the ISS
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Marcelli, L., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Blaksley, C., Blin, S., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bianciotto, M., Bisconti, F., Bolmgren, K., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Churilo, I., Crisconio, M., Taille, C. De La, Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M. A., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kasuga, H., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Kuznetsov, V., Manfrin, M., Mascetti, G., Marszał, W., Miyamoto, H., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Romoli, G., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Valentini, G., Vrabel, M., and Wiencke, L.
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25. Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019) of the JEM-EUSO Collaboration
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Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams Jr., J. H., Ahriche, A., Allard, D., Allen, L., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arai, Y., Asano, K., Attallah, R., Attoui, H., Pernas, M. Ave, Bacholle, S., Bakiri, M., Baragatti, P., Barrillon, P., Bartocci, S., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Bellotti, R., Belov, A., Belov, K., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Biermann, P. L., Biktemerova, S., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blanc, N., Błęcki, J., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bozzo, E., Pacheco, S. Briz, Bruno, A., Caballero, K. S., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J-N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Carlson, P., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M. J., Connaughton, V., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Csorna, S., Cummings, A., Dagoret-Campagne, S., Gónzalez, A. de Castro, De Donato, C., de la Taille, C., De Santis, C., del Peral, L., Di Martino, M., Damian, A. Diaz, Djemil, T., Dutan, I., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Ferrarese, S., Flamini, M., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini, S., Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fujimoto, J., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Garipov, G., Gascón, E., Genci, J., Giraudo, G., Alvarado, C. González, Gorodetzky, P., Greg, R., Guarino, F., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haiduc, M., Harlov, B., Haungs, A., Carretero, J. Hernández, Cruz, W. Hidber, Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Joven, E., Judd, E. G., Jung, A., Jochum, J., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Karadzhov, Y., Karczmarczyk, J., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B. A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P. A., Kolev, D., Krantz, H., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J. F., Kudela, K., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., La Barbera, A., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Larsson, O., Lee, J., Licandro, J., Campano, L. López, Martínez, F. López, Maccarone, M. C., Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Maravilla, D., Marcelli, L., Marcos, J. L., Marini, A., Marszał, W., Martens, K., Martín, Y., Martinez, O., Martucci, M., Masciantonio, G., Mase, K., Matev, R., Matthews, J. N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S. S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Ríos, J. A. Morales de los, Mustafa, M., Nagataki, S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Nava, R., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Orleaánski, P., Osteria, G., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M. I., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Pastircak, B., Patzak, T., Paul, T., Pérez-Grande, I., Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado, S., Piotrowski, L. W., Piraino, S., Placidi, L., Plebaniak, Z., Pliego, S., Pollini, A., Polonski, Z., Popescu, E. M., Prat, P., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Rabanal, J., Radu, A. A., Reyes, M., Rezazadeh, M., Ricci, M., Frías, M. D. Rodríguez, Ronga, F., Roudil, G., Rusinov, I., Rybczyński, M., Sabau, M. D., Cano, G. Sáaez, Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Balanzar, J. C. Sanchez, Sánchez, J. L., Santangelo, A., Sanz-Andrés, A., Palomino, M. Sanz, Saprykin, O., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Scotti, V., Selmane, S., Semikoz, D., Serra, M., Sharakin, S., Shimizu, H. M., Shinozaki, K., Shirahama, T., Spataro, B., Stan, I., Sugiyama, T., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelska, B., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takami, H., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M. C., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S. B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsenov, R., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Tubbs, J., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Vaduvescu, O., Valdés-Galicia, J. F., Vallania, P., Vankova, G., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts Jr., J., Weber, M., Muñoz, R. Weigand, Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Włodarczyk, Z., Yamamoto, T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I. V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I. S, Zotov, M. Yu., and Marchi, A. Zuccaro
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Compilation of papers presented by the JEM-EUSO Collaboration at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), held July 24 through August 1, 2019 in Madison, Wisconsin., Comment: links to the 24 papers published in arXiv
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26. Mini-EUSO experiment to study UV emission of terrestrial and astrophysical origin onboard of the International Space Station
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Casolino, M., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Blin-Bondil, S., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Churilo, I., Cotto, G., Djakonow, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Fausti, F., Fenu, F., Fornaro, C., Franceschi, A., Fuglesang, C., Gorodetzky, P., Haungs, A., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Osteria, G., Panasyuk, M., Poroshin, A., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Traïche, M., and Turriziani, S.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
Mini-EUSO will observe the Earth in the UV range (300 - 400 nm) offering the opportunity to study a variety of atmospheric events such as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), meteors and marine bioluminescence. Furthermore it aims to search for Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) above $10^{21}$ eV and Strange Quark Matter (SQM). The detector is expected to be launched to the International Space Station in August 2019 and look at the Earth in nadir mode from the UV-transparent window of the Zvezda module of the International Space Station. The instrument comprises a compact telescope with a large field of view ($44^{\circ}$), based on an optical system employing two Fresnel lenses for light collection. The light is focused onto an array of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (MAPMT), for a total of 2304 pixels and the resulting signal is converted into digital, processed and stored via the electronics subsystems on-board. In addition to the main detector, Mini-EUSO contains two ancillary cameras for complementary measurements in the near infrared (1500 - 1600 nm) and visible (400 - 780 nm) range and also a 8x8 SiPM imaging array., Comment: 8 pages, 12 figures, ICRC2019
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27. The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) mission
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Olinto, A. V., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P., Bisconti, F., Bustamante, M., Casolino, M., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A. L., De Mitri, I., Diesing, R., Eser, J. B., Fenu, F., Guépin, C., Hays, E. A., Judd, E., Krizmanic, J. F., Kuznetsov, E., Liberatore, A., Mackovjak, S., McEnery, J., Mitchell, J. W., Neronov, A., Oikonomou, F., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T. C., Perkins, J. S., Prévôt, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Sarazin, F., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Stecker, F., Takizawa, Y., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Venters, T., Wiencke, L., and Young, R. M.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,High Energy Physics - Experiment - Abstract
The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to observe cosmic neutrinos (CNs) above 20 PeV and ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) above 20 EeV over the full sky. The POEMMA mission calls for two identical satellites flying in loose formation, each comprised of a 4-meter wide field-of-view (45 degrees) Schmidt photometer. The hybrid focal surface includes a fast (1 ${\mu}$s) ultraviolet camera for fluorescence observations and an ultrafast (10 ns) optical camera for Cherenkov observations. POEMMA will provide new multi-messenger windows onto the most energetic events in the universe, enabling the study of new astrophysics and particle physics at these otherwise inaccessible energies., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, presented in 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Madison). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1907.06217
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28. Space Debris detection and tracking with the techniques of cosmic ray physics
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Miyamoto, H., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M. E., Bisconti, F., Bonino, R., Blin-Bondil, S., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Cellino, A., Churilo, I., Cotto, G., Djakonow, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Fausti, F., Fenu, F., Fornaro, C., Franceschi, A., Fuglesang, C., Gardiol, D., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Osteria, G., Panasyuk, M., Parizot, E., Poroshin, A., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Suino, G., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Traïche, M., and Turriziani, S.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Space Debris (SD) consist of non-operational artificial objects orbiting around the Earth, which could possibly damage space vehicles, such as the International Space Station (ISS) or other manned spacecrafts. The vast majority of such objects are cm-sized, not catalogued and usually the tracking data are not precise enough. Here we present the feasibility study of SD detection and tracking with techniques usually employed in cosmic-ray physics. For this purpose, we have evaluated the possibility of using Mini-EUSO, a space-borne fluorescence telescope to be deployed on the ISS, to track SD illuminated by the Sun. By means of ESAF (EUSO Simulation and analysis Framework) simulation and by developing the trigger algorithms, we estimated the minimum size and maximum distances of detectable SD. We then studied the number of possible SD detections using an ESA software called MASTER (Meteoroid and SD Terrestrial Environment Reference). With the Mini-EUSO Engineering Model (Mini-EUSO EM), we performed some measurements to estimate the reflectance of the most common SD materials and to demonstrate the ability of Mini-EUSO to detect SD events. We also performed some tests in open-sky conditions, identifying and tracking fast-moving objects. In particular, the detection of a rocket body allowed us to confirm the simulation outcomes predictions and the expected performance of the detector.
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29. Mini-EUSO engineering model: tests in open-sky condition
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Bisconti, F., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M. E., Blin-Bondil, S., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Cellino, A., Churilo, I., Cotto, G., Djakonow, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Fausti, F., Fenu, F., Fornaro, C., Franceschi, A., Fuglesang, C., Gardiol, D., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Osteria, G., Panasyuk, M., Parizot, E., Poroshin, A., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Suino, G., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Traïche, M., and Turriziani, S.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
Mini-EUSO is a UV telescope that will look downwards to the Earth's atmosphere onboard the International Space Station. With the design of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detectors belonging to the JEM-EUSO program, it will make the first UV map of the Earth by observing atmospheric phenomena such as transient luminous events, sprites and lightning, as well as meteors and bioluminescence from earth. Diffused light from laser shots from the ground, which mimic the fluorescence light emitted by Nitrogen molecules when extensive air showers pass through the atmosphere, can be used to verify the capability of this kind of detector to observe ultra-high energy cosmic rays. To validate the electronics and the trigger algorithms developed for Mini-EUSO, a scaled down version of the telescope with 1:9 of the original focal surface and a lens of 2.5 cm diameter has been built. Tests of the Mini-EUSO engineering model have been made in laboratory and in open sky condition. In this paper, we report results of observations of the night sky, which include the detection of stars, meteors, a planet and a rocket body reflecting the sunlight. Interesting results of the observation of city lights are also reported., Comment: presented at the 36th ICRC (Madison, WI; 2019)
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30. EUSO-TA ground based fluorescence detector: analysis of the detected events
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Bisconti, F., Belz, J. W., Bertaina, M. E., Blin-Bondil, S., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Gorodetzky, P., Matthews, J. N., Parizot, E., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Putis, M., Sagawa, H., Sakaki, N., Shin, H., Shinozaki, K., Sokolsky, P., Takizawa, Y., Tameda, Y., and Thomson, G. B.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
EUSO-TA is a ground-based florescence detector built to validate the design of an ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detector to be operated in space. EUSO-TA detected the first air shower events with the technology developed within the JEM-EUSO program. It operates at the Telescope Array (TA) site in Utah, USA. With the external trigger provided by the Black Rock Mesa fluorescence detectors of Telescope Array (TA-FDs), EUSO-TA observed nine ultra-high energy cosmic ray events and several laser events from the Central Laser Facility of Telescope Array and portable lasers like the JEM-EUSO Global Light System prototype. The reconstruction parameters of the cosmic ray events which crossed the EUSO-TA field of view (both detected and not detected by EUSO-TA), were provided by the Telescope Array Collaboration. As the TA-FDs have a wider field of view than EUSO-TA ($\sim$30 times larger), they allow the cosmic ray energy reconstruction based on the observation of most of the extensive air-shower profiles, including the shower maximum, while EUSO-TA only observes a portion of the showers, usually far from the maximum. For this reason, the energy of the cosmic rays corresponding to the EUSO-TA signals appear lower than the actual ones. In this contribution, the analysis of the cosmic-ray events detected with EUSO-TA is discussed., Comment: presented at the 36th ICRC (Madison, WI; 2019)
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31. The EUSO@TurLab: Test of Mini-EUSO Engineering Model
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Miyamoto, H., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M. E., Bisconti, F., Bonino, R., Blin-Bondil, S., Cafagna, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cellino, A., Churilo, I., Contino, G., Cotto, G., Djakonow, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Fausti, F., Fenu, F., Fornaro, C., Franceschi, A., Fuglesang, C., Gardiol, D., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Osteria, G., Panasyuk, M., Parizot, E., Poroshin, A., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Przybylak, M., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Suino, G., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Traïche, M., and Turriziani, S.
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The TurLab facility is a laboratory, equipped with a 5 m diameter and 1 m depth rotating tank, located in the Physics Department of the University of Turin. Originally, it was mainly built to study systems of different scales where rotation plays a key role in the fluid behavior such as in atmospheric and oceanic flows. In the past few years the TurLab facility has been used to perform experiments related to the observation of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays (EECRs) from space using the fluorescence technique. For example, in the case of the JEM-EUSO mission, where the diffuse night brightness and artificial light sources can vary significantly in time and space inside the Field of View of the telescope. The Focal Surface of Mini-EUSO Engineering Model (Mini-EUSO EM) with the level 1 (L1) and 2 (L2) trigger logics implemented in the Photo-Detector Module (PDM) has been tested at TurLab. Tests related to the possibility of using an EUSO-like detector for other type of applications such as Space Debris (SD) monitoring and imaging detector have also been pursued. The tests and results obtained within the EUSO@TurLab Project on these different topics are presented., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures, ICRC2019
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32. POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) design
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Olinto, A. V., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P., Bisconti, F., Bustamante, M., Casolino, M., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A. L., De Mitri, I., Diesing, R., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Guepin, C., Hays, E. A., Judd, E. G., Krizmanic, J. F., Kuznetsov, E., Liberatore, A., Mackovjak, S., McEnery, J., Mitchell, J. W., Neronov, A., Oikonomou, F., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Perkins, J. S., Prevot, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Sarazin, F., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Stecker, F., Takizawa, Y., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Venters, T. M., Wiencke, L., and Young, R. M.
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The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is a NASA Astrophysics probe-class mission designed to observe ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and cosmic neutrinos from space. Astro2020 APC white paper: Medium-class Space Particle Astrophysics Project., Comment: Astro2020 APC white paper: Medium-class Space Particle Astrophysics Project
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33. PANDORA Project for the study of photonuclear reactions below A=60
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Tamii, A., Pellegri, L., Söderström, P.-A., Allard, D., Goriely, S., Inakura, T., Khan, E., Kido, E., Kimura, M., Litvinova, E., Nagataki, S., Neumann-Cosel, P. von, Pietralla, N., Shimizu, N., Tsoneva, N., Utsuno, Y., Adachi, S., Adsley, P., Bahini, A., Balabanski, D., Baret, B., Bekker, J. A. C., Binda, S. D., Boicu, E., Bracco, A., Brandherm, I., Brezeanu, M., Brummer, J. W., Camera, F., Crespi, F. C. L., Dalal, R., Donaldson, L. M., Fujikawa, Y., Furuno, T., Haoning, H., Higuchi, R., Honda, Y., Gavrilescu, A., Inoue, A., Isaak, J., Jivan, H., Jones, P., Jongile, S., Just, O., Kawabata, T., Khumalo, T., Kiener, J., Kleemann, J., Kobayashi, N., Koshio, Y., Kuşoğlu, A., Li, K. C. W., Malatji, K. L., Molaeng, R. E., Motoki, H., Murata, M., Netshiya, A. A., Neveling, R., Niina, R., Okamoto, S., Ota, S., Papst, O., Parizot, E., Petruse, T., Reen, M. S., Ring, P., Sakanashi, K., Sideras-Haddad, E., Siem, S., Spall, M., Suda, T., Sudo, T., Taniguchi, Y., Tatischeff, V., Utsunomiya, H., Wang, H., Werner, V., Wibowo, H., Wiedeking, M., Wieland, O., Xu, Y., and Yang, Z. H.
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34. EUSO-SPB2 Fluorescence Telescope trigger test within the EUSO@TurLab Project
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Battisti, Matteo, Belov, A., Bertaina, M.E., Bisconti, F., Blin, S., Eser, J., Filippatos, G., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Parizot, E., Piotrowski, L.W., Prévôt, G., Santero Mormile, E., Sarazin, F., Szabelski, J., and Wiencke, L.
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35. Description and performance results of the trigger logic of TUS and Mini-EUSO to search for Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from space
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Bertaina, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bianciotto, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Bolmgren, K., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M.A., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzky, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Mignone, M., Miyamoto, H., Napolitano, T., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L.W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Sharakin, S., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., Vrabel, M., Yashin, I., and Zotov, M.
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36. First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere
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Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams Jr., J. H., Ahriche, A., Allard, D., Allen, L., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arai, Y., Asano, K., Attallah, R., Attoui, H., Pernas, M. Ave, Bacholle, S., Bakiri, M., Baragatti, P., Barrillon, P., Bartocci, S., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Bellotti, R., Belov, A., Belov, K., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Biermann, P. L., Biktemerova, S., Bisconti, F., Blanc, N., Błȩcki, J., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bozzo, E., Bruno, A., Caballero, K. S., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J-N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Carlson, P., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, C. Catalano O., Cellino, A., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M. J., Connaughton, V., Conti, L., Cordero, G., Cotto, G., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Csorna, S., Cummings, A., Dagoret-Campagne, S., De Donato, C., de la Taille, C., De Santis, C., del Peral, L., Di Martino, M., Damian, A. Diaz, Djemil, T., Dutan, I., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Fernández-Soriano, J., Ferrarese, S., Flamini, M., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini, S., Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fujimoto, J., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Garipov, G., Gascón, E., Genci, J., Giraudo, G., Alvarado, C. González, Gorodetzky, P., Greg, R., Guarino, F., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haiduc, M., Harlov, B., Haungs, A., Carretero, J. Hernández, Cruz, W. Hidber, Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Joven, E., Judd, E. G., Jung, A., Jochum, J., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Karadzhov, Y., Karczmarczyk, J., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B. A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P. A., Kolev, D., Krantz, H., Kreykenbohm, I., Kudela, K., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., La Barbera, A., Lachaud, C., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Larson, R., Larsson, O., Lee, J., Licandro, J., Campano, L. López, Maccarone, M. C., Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Maravilla, D., Marcelli, L., Marcos, J. L., Marini, A., Marszał, W., Martens, K., Martín, Y., Martinez, O., Martucci, M., Masciantonio, G., Mase, K., Mastafa, M., Matev, R., Matthews, J. N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Mendoza, M. A., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S. S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Ríos, J. A. Morales de los, Nagataki, C. Moretto S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Naslund, W., Nava, R., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Orleański, P., Osteria, G., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M. I., Panico, B., Pasqualino, G., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Pastircak, B., Patzak, T., Paul, T., Pérez-Grande, I., Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado, S., Piotrowski, L. W., Piraino, S., Placidi, L., Plebaniak, Z., Pliego, S., Pollini, A., Polonski, Z., Popescu, E. M., Prat, P., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Rabanal, J., Radu, A. A., Reyes, M., Rezazadeh, M., Ricci, M., Frías, M. D. Rodríguez, Rodencal, M., Ronga, F., Roudil, G., Rusinov, I., Rybczyński, M., Sabau, M. D., Cano, G. Sáez, Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Balanzar, J. C. Sanchez, Sánchez, J. L., Santangelo, A., Sanz-Andrés, A., Palomino, M. Sanz, Saprykin, O., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Scotti, V., Selmane, S., Semikoz, D., Serra, M., Sharakin, S., Shimizu, H. M., Shinozaki, K., Shirahama, T., Spataro, B., Stan, I., Sugiyama, T., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelska, B., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takami, H., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M. C., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S. B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsenov, R., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Tubbs, J., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Vaduvescu, O., Valdés-Galicia, J. F., Vallania, P., Vankova, G., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts Jr., J., Weber, M., Muñoz, R. Weigand, Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Włodarczyk, Z., Yamamoto, T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I. V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I. S, Zotov, M. Yu., and Marchi, A. Zuccaro
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25$^{th}$ of August 2014 from Timmins, Canada. The flight ended successfully after maintaining the target altitude of 38 km for five hours. One part of the mission was a 2.5 hour underflight using a helicopter equipped with three UV light sources (LED, xenon flasher and laser) to perform an inflight calibration and examine the detectors capability to measure tracks moving at the speed of light. We describe the helicopter laser system and details of the underflight as well as how the laser tracks were recorded and found in the data. These are the first recorded laser tracks measured from a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere. Finally, we present a first reconstruction of the direction of the laser tracks relative to the detector., Comment: 18 pages, 14 figures
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37. Onboard performance of the level 1 trigger of the mini-EUSO telescope
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Battisti, M., Barghini, D., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Bolmgren, K., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M.A., Fuglesang, C., Golzio, A., Gorodetzki, P., Kajino, F., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszał, W., Miyamoto, H., Napolitano, T., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L.W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., and Takizawa, Y.
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38. Optical complex for the study of pulsating aurora with sub-millisecond time resolution on the basis of the Verkhnetulomsky observatory
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Belov, A.A., Klimov, P.A., Kozelov, B.V., Barrillon, P., Blin-Bondil, S., Marszał, W., Murashov, A.S., Parizot, E., Prévôt, G., Roldugin, A.V., Sharakin, S.A., Szabelski, J., Takizawa, Y., and Trofimov, D.A.
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39. Supernova remnants in the very-high-energy gamma-ray domain: the role of the Cherenkov telescope array
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Cristofari, P., Gabici, S., Humensky, T. B., Santander, M., Terrier, R., Parizot, E., and Casanova, S.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
Supernova remnants are often presented as the most probable sources of Galactic cosmic rays. This idea is supported by the accumulation of evidence that particle acceleration is happening at supernova remnant shocks. Observations in the TeV range have especially contributed to increase the understanding of the mechanisms, but many aspects of the particle acceleration at supernova remnant shocks are still debated. The Cherenkov telescope array is expected to lead to the detection of many new supernova remnants in the TeV and multi-TeV range. In addition to the individual study of each, the study of these objects as a population can help constrain the parameters describing the acceleration of particles and increase our understanding of the mechanisms involved., Comment: 10 pages, 3 Figures, 3 Tables
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40. POEMMA: Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics
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Olinto, A. V., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P., Bustamante, M., Christl, M. J., Csorna, S. E., Eser, J. B., Fenu, F., Guépin, C., Hays, E. A., Hunter, S., Judd, E., Jun, I., Kotera, K., Krizmanic, J. F., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, S., Martinez-Sierra, L. M., Mastafa, M., Matthews, J. N., McEnery, J., Mitchell, J. W., Neronov, A., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T. C., Perkins, J. S., Prevot, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Sarazin, F., Shinozaki, K., Stecker, F., Streitmatter, R., Venters, T., Wiencke, L., and Young, R. M.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) mission is being designed to establish charged-particle astronomy with ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and to observe cosmogenic tau neutrinos (CTNs). The study of UHECRs and CTNs from space will yield orders-of-magnitude increase in statistics of observed UHECRs at the highest energies, and the observation of the cosmogenic flux of neutrinos for a range of UHECR models. These observations should solve the long-standing puzzle of the origin of the highest energy particles ever observed, providing a new window onto the most energetic environments and events in the Universe, while studying particle interactions well beyond accelerator energies. The discovery of CTNs will help solve the puzzle of the origin of UHECRs and begin a new field of Astroparticle Physics with the study of neutrino properties at ultra-high energies., Comment: 8 pages, in the Proceedings of the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC217, Busan, Korea
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41. Pre-flight qualification tests of the Mini-EUSO telescope engineering model
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Bisconti, F., Miyamoto, H., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M. E., Blin-Bondil, S., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Cellino, A., Conti, L., Contino, G., Cotto, G., Ebisuzaki, T., Fenu, F., Fornaro, C., Franceschi, A., Gardiol, D., Haungs, A., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Mignone, M., Napolitano, T., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Shinozaki, K., Simioli, F., Suino, G., and Szabelski, J.
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42. The EUSO@TurLab Project
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Miyamoto, H., Bertaina, M., Cotto, G., Forza, R., Manfrin, M., Mignone, M., Suino, G., Youssef, A., Caruso, R., Contino, G., Bacholle, S., Gorodetzky, P., Jung, A., Parizot, E., Prevôt, G., Barrillon, P., Dagoret-Campagne, S., Reina, J. Rabanal, and Blin, S.
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics ,Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
The TurLab facility is a laboratory, equipped with a 5 m diameter and 1 m depth rotating tank, located in the Physics Department of the University of Turin. The tank has been built mainly to study problems where system rotation plays a key role in the fluid behaviour such as in atmospheric and oceanic flows at different scales. The tank can be filled with different fluids of variable density, which enables studies in layered conditions such as sea waves. The tank can be also used to simulate the terrestrial surface with the optical characteristics of different environments such as snow, grass, ocean, land with soil, stones etc., fogs and clouds. As it is located in an extremely dark place, the light intensity can be controlled artificially. Such capabilities of the TurLab facility are applied to perform experiments related to the observation of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays (EECRs) from space using the fluorescence technique, as in the case of the JEM-EUSO mission, where the diffuse night brightness and artificial light sources can vary significantly in time and space inside the Field of View (FoV) of the telescope. Here we will report the currently ongoing activity at the TurLab facility in the framework of the JEM-EUSO mission (EUSO@TurLab)., Comment: 4 pages, 5 figures, "XXV ECRS 2016 Proceedings - eConf C16-09-04.3"
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43. A study of photons at ultra high energy using Auger surface detector
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Decerprit, Guillaume, Busca, N. G., and Parizot, E.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
We present a new method to derive an upper limit on the ultra-high-energy (UHE) photon flux above a given energy, using the Auger SD events. As previous studies, it takes advantage of the fundamental differences between showers induced by hadrons and showers induced by photons (signal rise time, slope of the Lateral Distribution Function, radius of curvature), but it uses photon shower simulations adapted to the actually observed SD events, on an event-by-event basis. In particular, we find that a limited number of simulations per event allows to reach an upper limit that is very close to the ideal case that would be obtained with an infinite number of simulations. For instance, 10 simulated showers per event are sufficient to reach an upper limit only 10 percent higher than the ideal one. As an illustration, we apply this method to the SD events reconstructed above 55 EeV, which provides an optimized upper limit on the photon flux above 150 EeV, and indicate how this can be easily extended to the lower-energy events, to constrain the photon flux down to much lower energies., Comment: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to disclosure of non-public data and is incompatible with publication policies of Pierre Auger Collaboration
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44. What can be learnt from UHECR anisotropies observations. II. Intermediate-scale anisotropies
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Allard, D., primary, Aublin, J., additional, Baret, B., additional, and Parizot, E., additional
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45. A Review of the EUSO-Balloon Pathfinder for the JEM-EUSO Program
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Adams, Jr., J. H., Ahmad, S., Allard, D., Anzalone, A., Bacholle, S., Barrillon, P., Bayer, J., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobík, P., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Catalano, C., Cremonini, R., Dagoret-Campagne, S., Danto, P., del Peral, L., de la Taille, C., Díaz Damian, A., Dupieux, M., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Evrard, J., Fenu, F., Ferrarese, S., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Gorodetzky, P., Guarino, F., Guzman, A., Hachisu, Y., Haungs, A., Judd, E., Jung, A., Karczmarczyk, J., Kawasaki, Y., Klimov, P. A., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, S., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Medina-Tanco, G., Mercier, K., Merino, A., Mernik, T., Miyamoto, H., Morales de los Ríos, J. A., Moretto, C., Mot, B., Neronov, A., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Osteria, G., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Pliego, S., Prat, P., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Putis, M., Rabanal, J., Ricci, M., Rojas, J., Rodríguez Frías, M. D., Roudil, G., Sáez Cano, G., Sahnoun, Z., Sakaki, N., Sanchez, J. C., Santangelo, A., Sarazin, F., Scotti, V., Shinozaki, K., Silva, H., Soriano, J. F., Suino, G., Szabelski, J., Toscano, S., Tabone, I., Takizawa, Y., von Ballmoos, P., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., and Zotov, M.
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46. EUSO-SPB1 mission and science
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Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams, J.H., Allard, D., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arnone, E., Asano, K., Atallah, R., Attoui, H., Ave Pernas, M., Bachmann, R., Bacholle, S., Bagheri, M., Bakiri, M., Baláz, J., Barghini, D., Bartocci, S., Battisti, M., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Belloti, R., Belov, A., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Bertone, P. F., Biermann, P.L., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blanc, N., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bolmgren, K., Bozzo, E., Briz, S., Bruno, A., Caballero, K.S., Cafagna, F., Cambié, G., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J. N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Černý, K., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M. J., Colalillo, R., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H.J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Cummings, A., Castro, A. de, Taille, C. de la, Peral, L. del, Desiato, J., Diaz Damian, A., Diesing, R., Dinaucourt, P., Djakonow, A., Djemil, T., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, George, Finch, W., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini Longhi, Sebastian Nicolas, Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Gardiol, D., Garipov, G., Gascón, E., Gazda, E., Genci, J., Golzio, Alessio, Gorodetzky, P., Gregg, Robbie, Green, A., Guarino, F., Guépin, C., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haungs, A., Heigbes, T., Hernández Carretero, J., Hulett, L., Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Jochum, J., Joven, E., Judd, E.G., Jung, A., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Kasztelan, M., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B.A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P.A., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J.F., Królik, K., Kungel, V., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Licandro, J., López Campano, L., López Martínez, F., Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Mandát, D., Manfrin, M, Marcelli, L., Marcos, J.L., Marszał, W., Martín, Y., Martínez, O., Mase, K., Mastafa, M., Matthews, J.N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Mese, M., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S.S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Morales de los Ríos, J.A., Nachtman, J. M., Nagataki, S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A.V., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M.I., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I.H., Pastircak, B., Paul, T., Pech, M., Pérez Grande, María Isabel, Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado Carrion, Santiago, Piotrowski, L.W., Piraino, S., Plebaniak, Z., Pollini, A., Popescu, E.M., Prevete, R., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Przybylak, M., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Reyes, M., Ricci, M., Rodríguez Frías, M.D., Romero Matamala, O. F., Ronga, F., Sabau, M.D., Saccá, G., Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Sanchez, J.L., Sanchez Balanzar, J.C., Santangelo, A., Sanz Andres, Angel Pedro, Saprykin, O., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Scagliola, A., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Serra, M., Sharakin, S. A., Shimizu, H.M., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J.F., Sotgiu, A., Stan, I., Strharský, I., Sugiyama, N., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M.C., Tameda, Y., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S.B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L. G., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Valdés-Galicia, J.F., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Venters, T. M., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts Jr, J., Weigand Muñoz, R., Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Yamamoto, T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I.V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I.S., Zotov, M.Yu., Zuccaro Marchini, A., JEM-EUSO, Collaboration, Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams, J.H., Allard, D., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arnone, E., Asano, K., Atallah, R., Attoui, H., Ave Pernas, M., Bachmann, R., Bacholle, S., Bagheri, M., Bakiri, M., Baláz, J., Barghini, D., Bartocci, S., Battisti, M., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Belloti, R., Belov, A., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Bertone, P. F., Biermann, P.L., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blanc, N., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bolmgren, K., Bozzo, E., Briz, S., Bruno, A., Caballero, K.S., Cafagna, F., Cambié, G., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J. N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Černý, K., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M. J., Colalillo, R., Conti, L., Cotto, G., Crawford, H.J., Cremonini, R., Creusot, A., Cummings, A., Castro, A. de, Taille, C. de la, Peral, L. del, Desiato, J., Diaz Damian, A., Diesing, R., Dinaucourt, P., Djakonow, A., Djemil, T., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Ferrarese, S., Filippatos, George, Finch, W., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini Longhi, Sebastian Nicolas, Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Gardiol, D., Garipov, G., Gascón, E., Gazda, E., Genci, J., Golzio, Alessio, Gorodetzky, P., Gregg, Robbie, Green, A., Guarino, F., Guépin, C., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haungs, A., Heigbes, T., Hernández Carretero, J., Hulett, L., Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Jochum, J., Joven, E., Judd, E.G., Jung, A., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Kasztelan, M., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B.A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P.A., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J.F., Królik, K., Kungel, V., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Licandro, J., López Campano, L., López Martínez, F., Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Mandát, D., Manfrin, M, Marcelli, L., Marcos, J.L., Marszał, W., Martín, Y., Martínez, O., Mase, K., Mastafa, M., Matthews, J.N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Mese, M., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S.S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Morales de los Ríos, J.A., Nachtman, J. M., Nagataki, S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A.V., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M.I., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I.H., Pastircak, B., Paul, T., Pech, M., Pérez Grande, María Isabel, Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado Carrion, Santiago, Piotrowski, L.W., Piraino, S., Plebaniak, Z., Pollini, A., Popescu, E.M., Prevete, R., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Przybylak, M., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Reyes, M., Ricci, M., Rodríguez Frías, M.D., Romero Matamala, O. F., Ronga, F., Sabau, M.D., Saccá, G., Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Sanchez, J.L., Sanchez Balanzar, J.C., Santangelo, A., Sanz Andres, Angel Pedro, Saprykin, O., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Scagliola, A., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Schovánek, P., Scotti, V., Serra, M., Sharakin, S. A., Shimizu, H.M., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J.F., Sotgiu, A., Stan, I., Strharský, I., Sugiyama, N., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M.C., Tameda, Y., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S.B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L. G., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Valdés-Galicia, J.F., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Vankova-Kirilova, G., Venters, T. M., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts Jr, J., Weigand Muñoz, R., Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Yamamoto, T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I.V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I.S., Zotov, M.Yu., Zuccaro Marchini, A., and JEM-EUSO, Collaboration
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The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 (EUSO-SPB1) was launched in 2017 April from Wanaka, New Zealand. The plan of this mission of opportunity on a NASA super pressure balloon test flight was to circle the southern hemisphere. The primary scientific goal was to make the first observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray extensive air showers (EASs) by looking down on the atmosphere with an ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence telescope from suborbital altitude (33 km). After 12 days and 4 h aloft, the flight was terminated prematurely in the Pacific Ocean. Before the flight, the instrument was tested extensively in the West Desert of Utah, USA, with UV point sources and lasers. The test results indicated that the instrument had sensitivity to EASs of EeV. Simulations of the telescope system, telescope on time, and realized flight trajectory predicted an observation of about 1 event assuming clear sky conditions. The effects of high clouds were estimated to reduce this value by approximately a factor of 2. A manual search and a machine-learning-based search did not find any EAS signals in these data. Here we review the EUSO-SPB1 instrument and flight and the EAS search.
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47. An evaluation of the exposure in nadir observation of the JEM-EUSO mission
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Adams, J. H., Ahmad, S., Albert, J. -N., Allard, D., Ambrosio, M., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arai, Y., Aramo, C., Asano, K., Ave, M., Barrillon, P., Batsch, T., Bayer, J., Belenguer, T., Bellotti, R., Berlind, A. A., Bertaina, M., Biermann, P. L., Biktemerova, S., Blaksley, C., Blecki, J., Blin-Bondil, S., Bluemer, J., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bonamente, M., Briggs, M. S., Briz, S., Bruno, A., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J-N., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellini, G., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Chikawa, M., Christl, M. J., Connaughton, V., Cortes, J. F., Crawford, H. J., Cremonini, R., Csorna, S., D'Olivo, J. C., Dagoret-Campagne, S., de Castro, A. J., De Donato, C., de la Taille, C., del Peral, L., Dell'Oro, A., De Pascale, M. P., Di Martino, M., Distratis, G., Dupieux, M., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Engel, R., Falk, S., Fang, K., Fenu, F., Fernandez-Gomez, I., Ferrarese, S., Franceschi, A., Fujimoto, J., Galeotti, P., Garipov, G., Geary, J., Giaccari, U. G., Giraudo, G., Gonchar, M., Alvarado, C. Gonzalez, Gorodetzky, P., Guarino, F., Guzman, A., Hachisu, Y., Harlov, B., Haungs, A., Carretero, J. Hernandez, Higashide, K., Iguchi, T., Ikeda, H., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Insolia, A., Isgrio, F., Itow, Y., Joven, E., Judd, E. G., Jung, A., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kaneko, I., Karadzhov, Y., Karczmarczyk, J., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Keilhauer, B., Khrenov, B. A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kim, Sug-Whan, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P. A., Ko, S. H., Kolev, D., Kreykenbohm, I., Kudela, K., Kurihara, Y., Kuznetsov, E., La Rosa, G., Lee, J., Licandro, J., Lim, H., Lopez, F., Maccarone, M. C., Mannheim, K., Marcelli, L., Marini, A., Martin-Chassard, G., Martinez, O., Masciantonio, G., Mase, K., Matev, R., Maurissen, A., Medina-Tanco, G., Mernik, T., Miyamoto, H., Miyazaki, Y., Mizumoto, Y., Modestino, G., Monnier-Ragaigne, D., Rios, J. A. Morales de los, Mot, B., Murakami, T., Nagano, M., Nagata, M., Nagataki, S., Nakamura, T., Nam, J. W., Nam, S., Nam, K., Napolitano, T., Naumov, D., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Ogawa, T., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A. V., Orleanski, P., Osteria, G., Pacheco, N., Panasyuk, M. I., Parizot, E., Park, I. H., Pastircak, B., Patzak, T., Paul, T., Pennypacker, C., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pollini, A., Prieto, H., Reardon, P., Reina, M., Reyes, M., Ricci, M., Rodriguez, I., Frias, M. D. Rodriguez, Ronga, F., Rothkaehl, H., Roudil, G., Rusinov, I., Rybczynski, M., Sabau, M. D., Cano, G. Saez, Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Sakata, M., Salazar, H., Sanchez, S., Santangelo, A., Cruz, L. Santiago, Palomino, M. Sanz, Saprykin, O., Sarazin, F., Sato, H., Sato, M., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Scotti, V., Scuderi, M., Segreto, A., Selmane, S., Semikoz, D., Serra, M., Sharakin, S., Shibata, T., Shimizu, H. M., Shinozaki, K., Shirahama, T., Siemieniec-Ozieb, G., Lopez, H. H. Silva, Sledd, J., Slominska, K., Sobey, A., Sugiyama, T., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelska, B., Szabelski, J., Tajima, F., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takami, H., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Tenzer, C., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Trillaud, F., Tsenov, R., Tsuno, K., Tymieniecka, T., Uchihori, Y., Vaduvescu, O., Valdes-Galicia, J. F., Vallania, P., Valore, L., Vankova, G., Vigorito, C., Villasenor, L., von Ballmoos, P., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watanabe, S., Watts, J., Weber, M., Weiler, T. J., Wibig, T., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Wlodarczyk, Z., Yamamoto, T., Yamamoto, Y., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I. V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, K., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zamora, A., and Marchi, A. Zuccaro
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
We evaluate the exposure during nadir observations with JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, on-board the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station. Designed as a mission to explore the extreme energy Universe from space, JEM-EUSO will monitor the Earth's nighttime atmosphere to record the ultraviolet light from tracks generated by extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In the present work, we discuss the particularities of space-based observation and we compute the annual exposure in nadir observation. The results are based on studies of the expected trigger aperture and observational duty cycle, as well as, on the investigations of the effects of clouds and different types of background light. We show that the annual exposure is about one order of magnitude higher than those of the presently operating ground-based observatories., Comment: published in Astroparticle Physics by the JEM-EUSO Collaboration
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48. Acceleration of cosmic rays and gamma-ray emission from supernova remnants in the Galaxy
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Cristofari, P., Gabici, S., Casanova, S., Terrier, R., and Parizot, E.
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Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena - Abstract
Galactic cosmic rays are believed to be accelerated at supernova remnant shocks. Though very popular and robust, this conjecture still needs a conclusive proof. The strongest support to this idea is probably the fact that supernova remnants are observed in gamma-rays, which are indeed expected as the result of the hadronic interactions between the cosmic rays accelerated at the shock and the ambient gas. However, also leptonic processes can, in most cases, explain the observed gamma-ray emission. This implies that the detections in gamma rays do not necessarily mean that supernova remnants accelerate cosmic ray protons. To overcome this degeneracy, the multi-wavelength emission (from radio to gamma rays) from individual supernova remnants has been studied and in a few cases it has been possible to ascribe the gamma-ray emission to one of the two processes (hadronic or leptonic). Here we adopt a different approach and, instead of a case-by-case study we aim for a population study and we compute the number of supernova remnants which are expected to be seen in TeV gamma rays above a given flux under the assumption that these objects indeed are the sources of cosmic rays. The predictions found here match well with current observational results, thus providing a novel consistency check for the supernova remnant paradigm for the origin of galactic cosmic rays. Moreover, hints are presented for the fact that particle spectra significantly steeper than E^-2 are produced at supernova remnants. Finally, we expect that several of the supernova remnants detected by H.E.S.S. in the survey of the galactic plane should exhibit a gamma-ray emission dominated by hadronic processes (i.e. neutral pion decay). The fraction of the detected remnants for which the leptonic emission dominates over the hadronic one depends on the assumed values of the physical parameters and can be as high as roughly a half., Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures, 4 tables, submitted to MNRAS
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49. Ultra-violet imaging of the night-time earth by EUSO-Balloon towards space-based ultra-high energy cosmic ray observations
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Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams, J.H., Jr., Ahriche, A., Allard, D., Allen, L., Alonso, G., Anchordoqui, L., Anzalone, A., Arai, Y., Asano, K., Attallah, R., Attoui, H., Ave Pernas, M., Bacholle, S., Bakiri, M., Baragatti, P., Barrillon, P., Bartocci, S., Bayer, J., Beldjilali, B., Belenguer, T., Belkhalfa, N., Bellotti, R., Belov, A., Belov, K., Benmessai, K., Bertaina, M., Biermann, P.L., Biktemerova, S., Bisconti, F., Blanc, N., Błȩcki, J., Blin-Bondil, S., Bobik, P., Bogomilov, M., Bozzo, E., Briz, S., Bruno, A., Caballero, K.S., Cafagna, F., Campana, D., Capdevielle, J-N., Capel, F., Caramete, A., Caramete, L., Carlson, P., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cassardo, C., Castellina, A., Catalano, C., Catalano, O., Cellino, A., Chikawa, M., Chiritoi, G., Christl, M.J., Connaughton, V., Conti, L., Cordero, G., Cotto, G., Crawford, H.J., Cremonini, R., Csorna, S., Cummings, A., Dagoret-Campagne, S., de Castro, A.J., De Donato, C., de la Taille, C., De Santis, C., del Peral, L., Di Martino, M., Diaz Damian, A., Djemil, T., Dutan, I., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Fernández-González, S., Ferrarese, S., Flamini, M., Fornaro, C., Fouka, M., Franceschi, A., Franchini, S., Fuglesang, C., Fujii, T., Fujimoto, J., Fukushima, M., Galeotti, P., García-Ortega, E., Garipov, G., Gascón, E., Genci, J., Giraudo, G., González Alvarado, C., Gorodetzky, P., Greg, R., Guarino, F., Guzmán, A., Hachisu, Y., Haiduc, M., Harlov, B., Haungs, A., Hernández Carretero, J., Hidber Cruz, W., Ikeda, D., Inoue, N., Inoue, S., Isgrò, F., Itow, Y., Jammer, T., Jeong, S., Joven, E., Judd, E.G., Jung, A., Jochum, J., Kajino, F., Kajino, T., Kalli, S., Kaneko, I., Karadzhov, Y., Karczmarczyk, J., Katahira, K., Kawai, K., Kawasaki, Y., Kedadra, A., Khales, H., Khrenov, B.A., Kim, Jeong-Sook, Kim, Soon-Wook, Kleifges, M., Klimov, P.A., Kolev, D., Krantz, H., Kreykenbohm, I., Krizmanic, J.F., Kudela, K., Kurihara, Y., Kusenko, A., Kuznetsov, E., La Barbera, A., Lachaud, C., Lahmar, H., Lakhdari, F., Larsson, O., Lee, J., Licandro, J., López Campano, L., López, F., Maccarone, M.C., Mackovjak, S., Mahdi, M., Maravilla, D., Marcelli, L., Marcos, J.L., Marini, A., Marszał, W., Martens, K., Martín, Y., Martinez, O., Martucci, M., Masciantonio, G., Mase, K., Mastafa, M., Matev, R., Matthews, J.N., Mebarki, N., Medina-Tanco, G., Mendoza, M.A., Menshikov, A., Merino, A., Meseguer, J., Meyer, S.S., Mimouni, J., Miyamoto, H., Mizumoto, Y., Monaco, A., Morales de los Ríos, J.A., Moretto, C., Nagataki, S., Naitamor, S., Napolitano, T., Nava, R., Neronov, A., Nomoto, K., Nonaka, T., Ogawa, T., Ogio, S., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A.V., Orleański, P., Osteria, G., Pagliaro, A., Painter, W., Panasyuk, M.I., Panico, B., Parizot, E., Park, I.H., Pastircak, B., Patzak, T., Paul, T., Pérez-Grande, I., Perfetto, F., Peter, T., Picozza, P., Pindado, S., Piotrowski, L.W., Piraino, S., Placidi, L., Plebaniak, Z., Pliego, S., Pollini, A., Polonsky, Z., Popescu, E.M., Prat, P., Prévôt, G., Prieto, H., Puehlhofer, G., Putis, M., Rabanal, J., Radu, A.A., Reyes, M., Rezazadeh, M., Ricci, M., Rodríguez Frías, M.D., Ronga, F., Roudil, G., Rusinov, I., Rybczyński, M., Sabau, M.D., Sáez Cano, G., Sagawa, H., Sahnoune, Z., Saito, A., Sakaki, N., Salazar, H., Sanchez Balanzar, J.C., Sánchez, J.L., Santangelo, A., Sanz-Andrés, A., Sanz Palomino, M., Saprykin, O., Sarazin, F., Sato, M., Schanz, T., Schieler, H., Scotti, V., Selmane, S., Semikoz, D., Serra, M., Sharakin, S., Shimizu, H.M., Shinozaki, K., Shirahama, T., Spataro, B., Stan, I., Sugiyama, T., Supanitsky, D., Suzuki, M., Szabelska, B., Szabelski, J., Tajima, N., Tajima, T., Takahashi, Y., Takami, H., Takeda, M., Takizawa, Y., Talai, M.C., Tenzer, C., Thomas, S.B., Tibolla, O., Tkachev, L., Tokuno, H., Tomida, T., Tone, N., Toscano, S., Traïche, M., Tsenov, R., Tsunesada, Y., Tsuno, K., Tubbs, J., Turriziani, S., Uchihori, Y., Vaduvescu, O., Valdés-Galicia, J.F., Vallania, P., Vankova, G., Vigorito, C., Villaseñor, L., Vlcek, B., von Ballmoos, P., Vrabel, M., Wada, S., Watanabe, J., Watts, J., Jr., Weber, M., Weigand Muñoz, R., Weindl, A., Wiencke, L., Wille, M., Wilms, J., Włodarczyk, Z., Yamamoto, T., Yang, J., Yano, H., Yashin, I.V., Yonetoku, D., Yoshida, S., Young, R., Zgura, I.S., Zotov, M.Yu., and Zuccaro Marchi, A.
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50. Antennas for the Detection of Radio Emission Pulses from Cosmic-Ray induced Air Showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory
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Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics - Abstract
The Pierre Auger Observatory is exploring the potential of the radio detection technique to study extensive air showers induced by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. The Auger Engineering Radio Array (AERA) addresses both technological and scientific aspects of the radio technique. A first phase of AERA has been operating since September 2010 with detector stations observing radio signals at frequencies between 30 and 80 MHz. In this paper we present comparative studies to identify and optimize the antenna design for the final configuration of AERA consisting of 160 individual radio detector stations. The transient nature of the air shower signal requires a detailed description of the antenna sensor. As the ultra-wideband reception of pulses is not widely discussed in antenna literature, we review the relevant antenna characteristics and enhance theoretical considerations towards the impulse response of antennas including polarization effects and multiple signal reflections. On the basis of the vector effective length we study the transient response characteristics of three candidate antennas in the time domain. Observing the variation of the continuous galactic background intensity we rank the antennas with respect to the noise level added to the galactic signal., Comment: Accepted for publication in JINST, 50 pages, 25 figures
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