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1. Observation of Declination Dependence in the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectrum

Author: The Telescope Array Collaboration, Abbasi, R. U., Abu-Zayyad, T., Allen, M., Belz, J. W., Bergman, D. R., Buckland, I., Campbell, W., Cheon, B. G., Endo, K., Fedynitch, A., Fujii, T., Fujisue, K., Fujita, K., Fukushima, M., Furlich, G., Gerber, Z., Globus, N., Hanlon, W., Hayashida, N., He, H., Hibino, K., Higuchi, R., Ikeda, D., Ishii, T., Ivanov, D., Jeong, S., Jui, C. C. H., Kadota, K., Kakimoto, F., Kalashev, O., Kasahara, K., Kawachi, Y., Kawata, K., Kharuk, I., Kido, E., Kim, H. B., Kim, J. H., Kim, S. W., Kobo, R., Komae, I., Komatsu, K., Komori, K., Koyama, C., Kudenko, M., Kuroiwa, M., Kusumori, Y., Kuznetsov, M., Kwon, Y. J., Lee, K. H., Lee, M. J., Lubsandorzhiev, B., Lundquist, J. P., Matsuzawa, A., Matthews, J. A., Matthews, J. N., Mizuno, K., Mori, M., Murakami, M., Nagataki, S., Nakahara, M., Nakamura, T., Nakayama, T., Nakayama, Y., Nonaka, T., Ogio, S., Ohoka, H., Okazaki, N., Onishi, M., Oshima, A., Oshima, H., Ozawa, S., Park, I. H., Park, K. Y., Potts, M., Przybylak, M., Pshirkov, M. S., Remington, J., Rott, C., Rubtsov, G. I., Ryu, D., Sagawa, H., Sakaki, N., Sakamoto, R., Sako, T., Sakurai, N., Sakurai, S., Sato, D., Sato, S., Sekino, K., Shibata, T., Shikita, J., Shimodaira, H., Shin, B. K., Shin, H. S., Shinozaki, K., Smith, J. D., Sokolsky, P., Stokes, B. T., Stroman, T. A., Takagi, Y., Takahashi, K., Takeda, M., Takeishi, R., Taketa, A., Takita, M., Tameda, Y., Tanaka, K., Tanaka, M., Thomas, S. B., Thomson, G. B., Tinyakov, P., Tkachev, I., Tomida, T., Troitsky, S., Tsunesada, Y., Udo, S., Urban, F., Vaiman, I. A., Vrábel, M., Warren, D., Yamazaki, K., Zhezher, Y., Zundel, Z., and Zvirzdin, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: We report on an observation of the difference between northern and southern skies of the ultrahigh energy cosmic ray energy spectrum with a significance of ${\sim}8\sigma$. We use measurements from the two largest experiments$\unicode{x2014}$the Telescope Array observing the northern hemisphere and the Pierre Auger Observatory viewing the southern hemisphere. Since the comparison of two measurements from different observatories introduces the issue of possible systematic differences between detectors and analyses, we validate the methodology of the comparison by examining the region of the sky where the apertures of the two observatories overlap. Although the spectra differ in this region, we find that there is only a $1.8\sigma$ difference between the spectrum measurements when anisotropic regions are removed and a fiducial cut in the aperture is applied., Comment: 8 pages, 6 figures
Published: 2024

2. EUSO-SPB1 Mission and Science

Author: 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
Subjects: 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
Published: 2024
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3. ELVES Measurements in the “UV Atmosphere” (Mini-EUSO) Experiment Onboard the ISS and Their Reconstruction

Author: Sharakin, S., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bianciotto, M., Bisconti, F., Blaksley, C., Blin, S., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Eser, J., Fenu, F., Franceschi, M. A., Golzio, A., Gorodetsky, P., Kajino, F., Kasuga, H., Klimov, P., Manfrin, M., Marcelli, L., Marszal, W., Miyamoto, H., Mignone, M., Murashov, A., Napolitano, T., Ohmori, H., Olinto, A., Parizot, E., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prévôt, G., Reali, E., Ricci, M., Romoli, G., Sakaki, N., Shinozaki, K., Szabelski, J., De La Taille, C., Takizawa, Y., Vrábel, M., Wiencke, L., and Zotov, M.
Published: 2024
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4. JEM-EUSO Collaboration contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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)
Published: 2023

5. Developments and results in the context of the JEM-EUSO program obtained with the ESAF Simulation and Analysis Framework

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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.
Published: 2023
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6. Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2022
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7. Probing Cosmic Inflation with the LiteBIRD Cosmic Microwave Background Polarization Survey

Author: LiteBIRD Collaboration, Allys, E., Arnold, K., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Azzoni, S., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banerji, R., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Bautista, L., Beck, D., Beckman, S., Bersanelli, M., Boulanger, F., Brilenkov, M., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Campeti, P., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Catalano, A., Chan, V., Cheung, K., Chinone, Y., Clark, S. E., Columbro, F., D'Alessandro, G., de Bernardis, P., de Haan, T., de la Hoz, E., De Petris, M., Della Torre, S., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Duval, J. M., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galloway, M., Ganga, K., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Génova-Santos, R. T., Ghigna, T., Giardiello, S., Gjerløw, E., Grain, J., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halverson, N. W., Hargrave, P., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hazumi, M., Henrot-Versillé, S., Hensley, B., Hergt, L. T., Herman, D., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R. A., Hornsby, A. L., Hoshino, Y., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Imada, H., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G., Katayama, N., Kato, A., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kuo, C. L., Lamagna, L., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Linder, E., Luzzi, G., Macias-Perez, J., Maciaszek, T., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Mandelli, S., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Massa, M., Matarrese, S., Matsuda, F. T., Matsumura, T., Mele, L., Migliaccio, M., Minami, Y., Moggi, A., Montgomery, J., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Nagano, Y., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakano, R., Namikawa, T., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Noviello, F., Odagiri, K., Oguri, S., Ohsaki, H., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Passerini, A., Patanchon, G., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pisano, G., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Prouvé, T., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Ritacco, A., Roudil, G., Rubino-Martin, J. A., Russell, M., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sasaki, M., Scott, D., Sekimoto, Y., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Signorelli, G., Spinella, F., Stever, S., Stompor, R., Sugiyama, S., Sullivan, R. M., Suzuki, A., Svalheim, T. L., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takase, Y., Tartari, A., Terao, Y., Thermeau, J., Thommesen, H., Thompson, K. L., Tomasi, M., Tominaga, M., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Tsujimoto, M., Vacher, L., Vielva, P., Vittorio, N., Wang, W., Watanuki, K., Wehus, I. K., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Wollack, E. J., Yumoto, J., and Zannoni, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and fundamental physics. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) selected LiteBIRD in May 2019 as a strategic large-class (L-class) mission, with an expected launch in the late 2020s using JAXA's H3 rocket. LiteBIRD is planned to orbit the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point L2, where it will map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization over the entire sky for three years, with three telescopes in 15 frequency bands between 34 and 448 GHz, to achieve an unprecedented total sensitivity of 2.2$\mu$K-arcmin, with a typical angular resolution of 0.5$^\circ$ at 100 GHz. The primary scientific objective of LiteBIRD is to search for the signal from cosmic inflation, either making a discovery or ruling out well-motivated inflationary models. The measurements of LiteBIRD will also provide us with insight into the quantum nature of gravity and other new physics beyond the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. We provide an overview of the LiteBIRD project, including scientific objectives, mission and system requirements, operation concept, spacecraft and payload module design, expected scientific outcomes, potential design extensions and synergies with other projects., Comment: 155 pages, accepted for publication in PTEP
Published: 2022
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8. Status of the K-EUSO Orbital Detector of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2022

9. JEM-EUSO Collaboration contributions to the 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference

Author: 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
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: 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
Published: 2022

10. Towards observations of nuclearites in Mini-EUSO

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2022

11. The Mini-EUSO telescope on board the International Space Station: Launch and first results

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2022

12. Measurement of UV light emission of the nighttime Earth by Mini-EUSO for space-based UHECR observations

Author: Shinozaki, K., Bolmgren, K., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Cambiè, G., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Fenu, F., Golzio, A., Plebaniak, Z., Przybylak, M., Szabelski, J., Sakaki, N., and Takizawa, Y.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: The JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program aims at the realization of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observation using wide field of view fluorescence detectors in orbit. Ultra-violet (UV) light emission from the atmosphere such as airglow and anthropogenic light on the Earth's surface are the main background for the space-based UHECR observations. The Mini-EUSO mission has been operated on the International Space Station (ISS) since 2019 which is the first space-based experiment for the program. The Mini-EUSO instrument consists of a 25 cm refractive optics and the photo-detector module with the 2304-pixel array of the multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. On the nadir-looking window of the ISS, the instrument is capable of continuously monitoring a ~300 km x 300 km area. In the present work, we report the preliminary result of the measurement of the UV light in the nighttime Earth using the Mini-EUSO data downlinked to the ground. We mapped UV light distribution both locally and globally below the ISS obit. Simulations were also made to characterize the instrument response to diffuse background light. We discuss the impact of such light on space-based UHECR observations and the Mini-EUSO science objectives., Comment: 11 pages, 5 figures, presented in 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Berlin)
Published: 2021
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13. EUSO@TurLab project in view of Mini-EUSO and EUSO-SPB2 missions

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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.
Published: 2021
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14. Simulations studies for the Mini-EUSO detector

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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.
Published: 2021
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15. The Fluorescence Telescope on board EUSO-SPB2 for the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2021
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16. Study of the calibration method using the stars measured by the EUSO-TA telescope

Author: Plebaniak, Z., Przybylak, M., Barghini, D., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Casolino, M., Gardiol, D., Lipiec, R., Piotrowski, L. W., Shinozaki, K., and Szabelski, J.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: EUSO-TA is a ground-based experiment, placed at Black Rock Mesa of the Telescope Array site as a part of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program. The UV fluorescence imaging telescope with a field of view of about 10.6 deg x 10.6 deg consisting of 2304 pixels (36 Multi-Anode Photomultipliers, 64 pixels each) works with 2.5-microsecond time resolution. An experimental setup with two Fresnel lenses allows for measurements of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays in parallel with the TA experiment as well as the other sources like flashes of lightning, artificial signals from UV calibration lasers, meteors and stars. Stars increase counts on pixels while crossing the field of view as the point-like sources. In this work, we discuss the method for calibration of EUSO fluorescence detectors based on signals from stars registered by the EUSO-TA experiment during several campaigns. As the star position is known, the analysis of signals gives an opportunity to determine the pointing accuracy of the detector. This can be applied to space-borne or balloon-borne EUSO missions. We describe in details the method of the analysis which provides information about detector parameters like the shape of the point spread function and is the way to perform absolute calibration of EUSO cameras.
Published: 2021
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17. Detection limits and trigger rates for ultra-high energy cosmic ray detection with the EUSO-TA ground-based fluorescence telescope

Author: 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.
Published: 2024
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18. EUSO-SPB1 mission and science

Author: Abdellaoui, G., Abe, S., Adams, J.H., Jr., 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., de Castro Gónzalez, A., 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., de los Ríos, J.A. Morales, 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, J., Jr., 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
Published: 2024
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19. Overview of the Medium and High Frequency Telescopes of the LiteBIRD satellite mission

Author: Montier, L., Mot, B., de Bernardis, P., Maffei, B., Pisano, G., Columbro, F., Gudmundsson, J. E., Henrot-Versillé, S., Lamagna, L., Montgomery, J., Prouvé, T., Russell, M., Savini, G., Stever, S., Thompson, K. L., Tsujimoto, M., Tucker, C., Westbrook, B., Ade, P. A. R., Adler, A., Allys, E., Arnold, K., Auguste, D., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Austermann, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banerji, R., Barreiro, R. B., Basak, S., Beall, J., Beck, D., Beckman, S., Bermejo, J., Bersanelli, M., Bonis, J., Borrill, J., Boulanger, F., Bounissou, S., Brilenkov, M., Brown, M., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Campeti, P., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Challinor, A., Chan, V., Cheung, K., Chinone, Y., Cliche, J. F., Colombo, L., Cubas, J., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D., D'Alessandro, G., Dachlythra, N., De Petris, M., Dickinson, C., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Duband, L., Duff, S., Duval, J. M., Ebisawa, K., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galloway, M., Ganga, K., Gao, J. R., Genova-Santos, R., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Ghigna, T., Gjerløw, E., Gradziel, M. L., Grain, J., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Hargrave, P., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, M., Hazumi, M., Herman, D., Herranz, D., Hill, C. A., Hilton, G., Hirota, Y., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R. A., Hoshino, Y., de la Hoz, E., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Imada, H., Ishimura, K., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G., Kaga, T., Kashima, S., Katayama, N., Kato, A., Kawasaki, T., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogiso, N., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuo, C. L., Kushino, A., Lanen, J. V., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Linder, E., Louis, T., Luzzi, G., Maciaszek, T., Maino, D., Maki, M., Mandelli, S., Martinez-Gonzalez, E., Masi, S., Matsumura, T., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Minami, Y., Mitsuda, K., Morgante, G., Murata, Y., Murphy, J. A., Nagai, M., Nagano, Y., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakamura, S., Namikawa, T., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Nishibori, T., Nishino, H., O'Sullivan, C., Ogawa, H., Oguri, S., Ohsaki, H., Ohta, I. S., Okada, N., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Patanchon, G., Peloton, J., Piacentini, F., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Ritacco, A., Roudil, G., Rubino-Martin, J. A., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sandri, M., Sasaki, M., Scott, D., Seibert, J., Sekimoto, Y., Sherwin, B., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Signorelli, G., Smecher, G., Stompor, R., Sugai, H., Sugiyama, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, J., Svalheim, T. L., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takakura, S., Takase, Y., Takeda, Y., Tartari, A., Taylor, E., Terao, Y., Thommesen, H., Thorne, B., Toda, T., Tomasi, M., Tominaga, M., Trappe, N., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Ullom, J., Vermeulen, G., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vissers, M., Vittorio, N., Wehus, I., Weller, J., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Wollack, E. J., Yamasaki, N. Y., Yoshida, T., Yumoto, J., Zannoni, M., and Zonca, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: LiteBIRD is a JAXA-led Strategic Large-Class mission designed to search for the existence of the primordial gravitational waves produced during the inflationary phase of the Universe, through the measurements of their imprint onto the polarization of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). These measurements, requiring unprecedented sensitivity, will be performed over the full sky, at large angular scales, and over 15 frequency bands from 34GHz to 448GHz. The LiteBIRD instruments consist of three telescopes, namely the Low-, Medium- and High-Frequency Telescope (respectively LFT, MFT and HFT). We present in this paper an overview of the design of the Medium-Frequency Telescope (89-224GHz) and the High-Frequency Telescope (166-448GHz), the so-called MHFT, under European responsibility, which are two cryogenic refractive telescopes cooled down to 5K. They include a continuous rotating half-wave plate as the first optical element, two high-density polyethylene (HDPE) lenses and more than three thousand transition-edge sensor (TES) detectors cooled to 100mK. We provide an overview of the concept design and the remaining specific challenges that we have to face in order to achieve the scientific goals of LiteBIRD., Comment: SPIE Conference
Published: 2021
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20. LiteBIRD: JAXA's new strategic L-class mission for all-sky surveys of cosmic microwave background polarization

Author: Hazumi, M., Ade, P. A. R., Adler, A., Allys, E., Arnold, K., Auguste, D., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Austermann, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banjeri, R., Barreiro, R. B., Basak, S., Beall, J., Beck, D., Beckman, S., Bermejo, J., de Bernardis, P., Bersanelli, M., Bonis, J., Borrill, J., Boulanger, F., Bounissou, S., Brilenkov, M., Brown, M., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Campeti, P., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Challinor, A., Chan, V., Cheung, K., Chinone, Y., Cliche, J. F., Colombo, L., Columbro, F., Cubas, J., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D., D'Alessandro, G., Dachlythra, N., De Petris, M., Dickinson, C., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Duband, L., Duff, S., Duval, J. M., Ebisawa, K., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galloway, M., Ganga, K., Gao, J. R., Genova-Santos, R., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Ghigna, T., Gjerløw, E., Gradziel, M. L., Grain, J., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Hargrave, P., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, M., Henrot-Versillé, S., Herman, D., Herranz, D., Hill, C. A., Hilton, G., Hirota, Y., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R. A., Hoshino, Y., de la Hoz, E., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Imada, H., Ishimura, K., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G., Kaga, T., Kashima, S., Katayama, N., Kato, A., Kawasaki, T., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogiso, N., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuo, C. L., Kushino, A., Lamagna, L., Lanen, J. V., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Linder, E., Louis, T., Luzzi, G., Maciaszek, T., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Maki, M., Mandelli, S., Martinez-Gonzalez, E., Masi, S., Matsumura, T., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Minami, Y., Mitsuda, K., Montgomery, J., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Murata, Y., Murphy, J. A., Nagai, M., Nagano, Y., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakamura, S., Namikawa, T., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Nishibori, T., Nishino, H., Noviello, F., O'Sullivan, C., Ogawa, H., Oguri, S., Ohsaki, H., Ohta, I. S., Okada, N., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Patanchon, G., Peloton, J., Piacentini, F., Pisano, G., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Prouvé, T., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Ritacco, A., Roudil, G., Rubino-Martin, J. A., Russell, M., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sandri, M., Sasaki, M., Savini, G., Scott, D., Seibert, J., Sekimoto, Y., Sherwin, B., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Signorelli, G., Smecher, G., Stever, S., Stompor, R., Sugai, H., Sugiyama, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, J., Svalheim, T. L., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takakura, S., Takase, Y., Takeda, Y., Tartari, A., Taylor, E., Terao, Y., Thommesen, H., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Toda, T., Tomasi, M., Tominaga, M., Trappe, N., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Tsujimoto, M., Tucker, C., Ullom, J., Vermeulen, G., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vissers, M., Vittorio, N., Wehus, I., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Wollack, E. J., Yamasaki, N. Y., Yoshida, T., Yumoto, J., Zannoni, M., and Zonca, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics, General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology, High Energy Physics - Experiment, High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract: LiteBIRD, the Lite (Light) satellite for the study of B-mode polarization and Inflation from cosmic background Radiation Detection, is a space mission for primordial cosmology and fundamental physics. JAXA selected LiteBIRD in May 2019 as a strategic large-class (L-class) mission, with its expected launch in the late 2020s using JAXA's H3 rocket. LiteBIRD plans to map the cosmic microwave background (CMB) polarization over the full sky with unprecedented precision. Its main scientific objective is to carry out a definitive search for the signal from cosmic inflation, either making a discovery or ruling out well-motivated inflationary models. The measurements of LiteBIRD will also provide us with an insight into the quantum nature of gravity and other new physics beyond the standard models of particle physics and cosmology. To this end, LiteBIRD will perform full-sky surveys for three years at the Sun-Earth Lagrangian point L2 for 15 frequency bands between 34 and 448 GHz with three telescopes, to achieve a total sensitivity of 2.16 micro K-arcmin with a typical angular resolution of 0.5 deg. at 100GHz. We provide an overview of the LiteBIRD project, including scientific objectives, mission requirements, top-level system requirements, operation concept, and expected scientific outcomes., Comment: 20 pages, 9 figures
Published: 2021
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21. Concept Design of Low Frequency Telescope for CMB B-mode Polarization satellite LiteBIRD

Author: Sekimoto, Y., Ade, P. A. R., Adler, A., Allys, E., Arnold, K., Auguste, D., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Austermann, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banerji, R., Barreiro, R. B., Basak, S., Beall, J., Beck, D., Beckman, S., Bermejo, J., de Bernardis, P., Bersanelli, M., Bonis, J., Borrill, J., Boulanger, F., Bounissou, S., Brilenkov, M., Brown, M., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Campeti, P., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Challinor, A., Chan, V., Cheung, K., Chinone, Y., Cliche, J. F., Colombo, L., Columbro, F., Cubas, J., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D., D'Alessandro, G., Dachlythra, N., De Petris, M., Dickinson, C., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Duband, L., Duff, S., Duval, J. M., Ebisawa, K., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galloway, M., Ganga, K., Gao, J. R., Genova-Santos, R., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Ghigna, T., Gjerløw, E., Gradziel, M. L., Grain, J., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., de Haan, T., Halverson, N. W., Hargrave, P., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, M., Hazumi, M., Henrot-Versillé, S., Herman, D., Herranz, D., Hill, C. A., Hilton, G., Hirota, Y., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R. A., Hoshino, Y., de la Hoz, E., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., iida, T., Imada, H., Ishimura, K., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G., Kaga, T., Kashima, S., Katayama, N., Kato, A., Kawasaki, T., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogiso, N., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuo, C. L., Kushino, A., Lamagna, L., Lanen, J. V., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Linder, E., Louis, T., Luzzi, G., Maciaszek, T., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Maki, M., Mandelli, S., Martinez-Gonzalez, E., Masi, S., Matsumura, T., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Minanmi, Y., Mitsuda, K., Montgomery, J., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Murata, Y., Murphy, J. A., Nagai, M., Nagano, Y., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakamura, S., Namikawa, T., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Nishibori, T., Nishino, H., O'Sullivan, C., Ogawa, H., Oguri, S., Ohsaki, H., Ohta, I. S., Okada, N., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Patanchon, G., Peloton, J., Piacentini, F., Pisano, G., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Prouvé, T., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Ritacco, A., Roudil, G., Rubino-Martin, J. A., Russell, M., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sandri, M., Sasaki, M., Savini, G., Scott, D., Seibert, J., Sherwin, B., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Signorelli, G., Smecher, G., Stever, S., Stompor, R., Sugai, H., Sugiyama, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, J., Svalheim, T. L., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takakura, S., Takase, Y., Takeda, Y., Tartari, A., Taylor, E., Terao, Y., Thommesen, H., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Toda, T., Tomasi, M., Tominaga, M., Trappe, N., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Tsujimoto, M., Tucker, C., Ullom, J., Vermeulen, G., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vissers, M., Vittorio, N., Wehus, I., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Wollack, E. J., Yamasaki, N. Y., Yoshida, T., Yumoto, J., Zannoni, M., and Zonca, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
Abstract: LiteBIRD has been selected as JAXA's strategic large mission in the 2020s, to observe the cosmic microwave background (CMB) $B$-mode polarization over the full sky at large angular scales. The challenges of LiteBIRD are the wide field-of-view (FoV) and broadband capabilities of millimeter-wave polarization measurements, which are derived from the system requirements. The possible paths of stray light increase with a wider FoV and the far sidelobe knowledge of $-56$ dB is a challenging optical requirement. A crossed-Dragone configuration was chosen for the low frequency telescope (LFT : 34--161 GHz), one of LiteBIRD's onboard telescopes. It has a wide field-of-view ($18^\circ \times 9^\circ$) with an aperture of 400 mm in diameter, corresponding to an angular resolution of about 30 arcminutes around 100 GHz. The focal ratio f/3.0 and the crossing angle of the optical axes of 90$^\circ$ are chosen after an extensive study of the stray light. The primary and secondary reflectors have rectangular shapes with serrations to reduce the diffraction pattern from the edges of the mirrors. The reflectors and structure are made of aluminum to proportionally contract from warm down to the operating temperature at $5\,$K. A 1/4 scaled model of the LFT has been developed to validate the wide field-of-view design and to demonstrate the reduced far sidelobes. A polarization modulation unit (PMU), realized with a half-wave plate (HWP) is placed in front of the aperture stop, the entrance pupil of this system. A large focal plane with approximately 1000 AlMn TES detectors and frequency multiplexing SQUID amplifiers is cooled to 100 mK. The lens and sinuous antennas have broadband capability. Performance specifications of the LFT and an outline of the proposed verification plan are presented., Comment: 21 pages, 14 figures
Published: 2021
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22. The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) Observatory

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2020
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23. Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 calibration: from the laboratory to the desert

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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%.
Published: 2020
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24. Mini-EUSO mission to study Earth UV emissions on board the ISS

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2020
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25. Integration, qualification, and launch of the Mini-EUSO telescope on board the ISS

Author: 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.
Published: 2023
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26. Snowmass 2021 Letter of Interest: The Probe Of Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA)

Author: 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.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: 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
Published: 2020

27. Updated design of the CMB polarization experiment satellite LiteBIRD

Author: Sugai, H., Ade, P. A. R., Akiba, Y., Alonso, D., Arnold, K., Aumont, J., Austermann, J., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banerji, R., Barreiro, R. B., Basak, S., Beall, J., Beckman, S., Bersanelli, M., Borrill, J., Boulanger, F., Brown, M. L., Bucher, M., Buzzelli, A., Calabrese, E., Casas, F. J., Challinor, A., Chan, V., Chinone, Y., Cliche, J. -F., Columbro, F., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D., Danto, P., de Bernardis, P., de Haan, T., De Petris, M., Dickinson, C., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Duband, L., Ducout, A., Duff, S., Duivenvoorden, A., Duval, J. -M., Ebisawa, K., Elleflot, T., Enokida, H., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Ganga, K., Gao, J. -R., Génova-Santos, R., Ghigna, T., Gomez, A., Gradziel, M. L., Grain, J., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halverson, N. W., Hargrave, P., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, M., Hazumi, M., Henrot-Versille, S., Herranz, D., Hill, C., Hilton, G., Hirota, Y., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R., Hoang, D. -T., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Imada, H., Ishimura, K., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G. C., Jones, M., Kaga, T., Kashima, S., Kataoka, Y., Katayama, N., Kawasaki, T., Keskitalo, R., Kibayashi, A., Kikuchi, T., Kimura, K., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogiso, N., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kuo, C. L., Kurinsky, N., Kushino, A., Kuwata-Gonokami, M., Lamagna, L., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Linder, E., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Maki, M., Mangilli, A., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Mathon, R., Matsumura, T., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Minami, Y., Mistuda, K., Molinari, D., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Murata, Y., Murphy, J. A., Nagai, M., Nagata, R., Nakamura, S., Namikawa, T., Natoli, P., Nerva, S., Nishibori, T., Nishino, H., Nomura, Y., Noviello, F., O'Sullivan, C., Ochi, H., Ogawa, H., Ohsaki, H., Ohta, I., Okada, N., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Patanchon, G., Piacentini, F., Pisano, G., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Prouvé, T., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Remazeilles, M., Roudil, G., Rubiño-Martín, J. A., Russell, M., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sandri, M., Savini, G., Scott, D., Sekimoto, Y., Sherwin, B. D., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Signorelli, G., Smecher, G., Spizzi, P., Stever, S. L., Stompor, R., Sugiyama, S., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, J., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takakura, S., Takeda, Y., Taylor, A., Taylor, E., Terao, Y., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tomasi, M., Tomida, H., Trappe, N., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Tsujimoto, M., Tucker, C., Ullom, J., Uozumi, S., Utsunomiya, S., Van Lanen, J., Vermeulen, G., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vissers, M., Vittorio, N., Voisin, F., Walker, I., Watanabe, N., Wehus, I., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Winter, B., Wollack, E., Yamamoto, R., Yamasaki, N. Y., Yanagisawa, M., Yoshida, T., Yumoto, J., Zannoni, M., and Zonca, A.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Recent developments of transition-edge sensors (TESs), based on extensive experience in ground-based experiments, have been making the sensor techniques mature enough for their application on future satellite CMB polarization experiments. LiteBIRD is in the most advanced phase among such future satellites, targeting its launch in Japanese Fiscal Year 2027 (2027FY) with JAXA's H3 rocket. It will accommodate more than 4000 TESs in focal planes of reflective low-frequency and refractive medium-and-high-frequency telescopes in order to detect a signature imprinted on the cosmic microwave background (CMB) by the primordial gravitational waves predicted in cosmic inflation. The total wide frequency coverage between 34GHz and 448GHz enables us to extract such weak spiral polarization patterns through the precise subtraction of our Galaxy's foreground emission by using spectral differences among CMB and foreground signals. Telescopes are cooled down to 5Kelvin for suppressing thermal noise and contain polarization modulators with transmissive half-wave plates at individual apertures for separating sky polarization signals from artificial polarization and for mitigating from instrumental 1/f noise. Passive cooling by using V-grooves supports active cooling with mechanical coolers as well as adiabatic demagnetization refrigerators. Sky observations from the second Sun-Earth Lagrangian point, L2, are planned for three years. An international collaboration between Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe is sharing various roles. In May 2019, the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS), JAXA selected LiteBIRD as the strategic large mission No. 2., Comment: Journal of Low Temperature Physics, in press
Published: 2020
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28. Contributions to the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019) of the JEM-EUSO Collaboration

Author: 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
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Abstract: 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
Published: 2019

29. Sensitivity Modeling for LiteBIRD

Author: Hasebe, T., Ade, P. A. R., Adler, A., Allys, E., Alonso, D., Arnold, K., Auguste, D., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Austermann, J., Azzoni, S., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banerji, R., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Battistelli, E., Bautista, L., Beall, J., Beck, D., Beckman, S., Benabed, K., Bermejo-Ballesteros, J., Bersanelli, M., Bonis, J., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F., Boulanger, F., Bounissou, S., Brilenkov, M., Brown, M. L., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Calvo, M., Campeti, P., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chan, V., Cheung, K., Chinone, Y., Cliche, J., Columbro, F., Coulton, W., Cubas, J., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D., D’Alessandro, G., Dachlythra, K., de Bernardis, P., de Haan, T., de la Hoz, E., De Petris, M., Torre, S. Della, Dickinson, C., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Douillet, D., Duband, L., Ducout, A., Duff, S., Duval, J. M., Ebisawa, K., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galli, S., Galloway, M., Ganga, K., Gao, J. R., Genova-Santos, R. T., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Ghigna, T., Giardiello, S., Gjerløw, E., Gradziel, M. L., Grain, J., Grandsire, L., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halverson, N. W., Hamilton, J., Hargrave, P., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, M., Hazumi, M., Henrot-Versillé, S., Hergt, L. T., Herman, D., Herranz, D., Hill, C. A., Hilton, G., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R. A., Hoang, T. D., Hornsby, A. L., Hoshino, Y., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Imada, H., Ishimura, K., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G., Jones, M., Kaga, T., Kashima, S., Katayama, N., Kato, A., Kawasaki, T., Keskitalo, R., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogiso, N., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuo, C. L., Kushino, A., Lamagna, L., Lanen, J. V., Laquaniello, G., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Linder, E., Louis, T., Luzzi, G., Macias-Perez, J., Maciaszek, T., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Maki, M., Mandelli, S., Maris, M., Martínez-González, E., Masi, S., Massa, M., Matarrese, S., Matsuda, F. T., Matsumura, T., Mele, L., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Minami, Y., Mitsuda, K., Moggi, A., Monfardini, A., Montgomery, J., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Murata, Y., Murphy, J. A., Nagai, M., Nagano, Y., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakamura, S., Nakano, R., Namikawa, T., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Nishibori, T., Nishino, H., Noviello, F., O’Sullivan, C., Odagiri, K., Ogawa, H., Ogawa, H., Oguri, S., Ohsaki, H., Ohta, I. S., Okada, N., Okada, N., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Passerini, A., Patanchon, G., Pelgrim, V., Peloton, J., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Pisano, G., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Prouvé, T., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Reinecke, M., Remazeilles, M., Ritacco, A., Roudil, G., Rubino-Martin, J., Russell, M., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sandri, M., Sasaki, M., Savini, G., Scott, D., Seibert, J., Sekimoto, Y., Sherwin, B., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Signorelli, G., Smecher, G., Spinella, F., Stever, S., Stompor, R., Sugiyama, S., Sullivan, R., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, J., Svalheim, T. L., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takakura, S., Takase, Y., Takeda, Y., Tartari, A., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A., Taylor, E., Terao, Y., Thermeau, J., Thommesen, H., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Toda, T., Tomasi, M., Tominaga, M., Trappe, N., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Tsujimoto, M., Tucker, C., Ullom, J., Vacher, L., Vermeulen, G., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vissers, M., Vittorio, N., Wandelt, B., Wang, W., Watanuki, K., Wehus, I. K., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Wollack, E. J., Yamasaki, N. Y., Yoshida, T., Yumoto, J., Zacchei, A., Zannoni, M., and Zonca, A.
Published: 2022
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30. Optical Characterization of OMT-Coupled TES Bolometers for LiteBIRD

Author: Hubmayr, J., Ade, P. A. R., Adler, A., Allys, E., Alonso, D., Arnold, K., Auguste, D., Aumont, J., Aurlien, R., Austermann, J. E., Azzoni, S., Baccigalupi, C., Banday, A. J., Banerji, R., Barreiro, R. B., Bartolo, N., Basak, S., Battistelli, E., Bautista, L., Beall, J. A., Beck, D., Beckman, S., Benabed, K., Bermejo-Ballesteros, J., Bersanelli, M., Bonis, J., Borrill, J., Bouchet, F., Boulanger, F., Bounissou, S., Brilenkov, M., Brown, M. L., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Calvo, M., Campeti, P., Carones, A., Casas, F. J., Catalano, A., Challinor, A., Chan, V., Cheung, K., Chinone, Y., Chiocchetta, C., Clark, S. E., Clermont, L., Clesse, S., Cliche, J., Columbro, F., Connors, J. A., Coppolecchia, A., Coulton, W., Cubas, J., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D., Cuttaia, F., D’Alessandro, G., Dachlythra, K., de Bernardis, P., de Haan, T., de la Hoz, E., De Petris, M., Della Torre, S., Daz Garca, J. J., Dickinson, C., Diego-Palazuelos, P., Dobbs, M., Dotani, T., Douillet, D., Doumayrou, E., Duband, L., Ducout, A., Duff, S. M., Duval, J. M., Ebisawa, K., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Essinger-Hileman, T., Farrens, S., Finelli, F., Flauger, R., Fleury-Frenette, K., Franceschet, C., Fuskeland, U., Galli, L., Galli, S., Galloway, M., Ganga, K., Gao, J. R., Genova-Santos, R. T., Georges, M., Gerbino, M., Gervasi, M., Ghigna, T., Giardiello, S., Gjerlw, E., Gonzles, R. Gonzlez, Gradziel, M. L., Grain, J., Grandsire, L., Grupp, F., Gruppuso, A., Gudmundsson, J. E., Halverson, N. W., Hamilton, J., Hargrave, P., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, M., Hazumi, M., Henrot-Versill, S., Hensley, B., Herman, D., Herranz, D., Hilton, G. C., Hivon, E., Hlozek, R. A., Hoang, D., Hornsby, A. L., Hoshino, Y., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Ikemoto, T., Imada, H., Ishimura, K., Ishino, H., Jaehnig, G., Jones, M., Kaga, T., Kashima, S., Katayama, N., Kato, A., Kawasaki, T., Keskitalo, R., Kintziger, C., Kisner, T., Kobayashi, Y., Kogiso, N., Kogut, A., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Konishi, K., Krachmalnicoff, N., Kreykenbohm, I., Kuo, C. L., Kushino, A., Lamagna, L., Lanen, J. V., Laquaniello, G., Lattanzi, M., Lee, A. T., Leloup, C., Levrier, F., Linder, E., Link, M. J., Lonappan, A. I., Louis, T., Luzzi, G., Macias-Perez, J., Maciaszek, T., Maffei, B., Maino, D., Maki, M., Mandelli, S., Maris, M., Marquet, B., Martnez-Gonzlez, E., Martire, F. A., Masi, S., Massa, M., Masuzawa, M., Matarrese, S., Matsuda, F. T., Matsumura, T., Mele, L., Mennella, A., Migliaccio, M., Minami, Y., Mitsuda, K., Moggi, A., Monelli, M., Monfardini, A., Montgomery, J., Montier, L., Morgante, G., Mot, B., Murata, Y., Murphy, J. A., Nagai, M., Nagano, Y., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakamura, S., Nakano, R., Namikawa, T., Nati, F., Natoli, P., Nerval, S., Neto Godry Farias, N., Nishibori, T., Nishino, H., Noviello, F., O’Neil, G. C., O’Sullivan, C., Odagiri, K., Ochi, H., Ogawa, H., Ogawa, H., Oguri, S., Ohsaki, H., Ohta, I. S., Okada, N., Pagano, L., Paiella, A., Paoletti, D., Pascual Cisneros, G., Passerini, A., Patanchon, G., Pelgrim, V., Peloton, J., Pettorino, V., Piacentini, F., Piat, M., Piccirilli, G., Pinsard, F., Pisano, G., Plesseria, J., Polenta, G., Poletti, D., Prouv, T., Puglisi, G., Rambaud, D., Raum, C., Realini, S., Reinecke, M., Reintsema, C. D., Remazeilles, M., Ritacco, A., Rosier, P., Roudil, G., Rubino-Martin, J., Russell, M., Sakurai, H., Sakurai, Y., Sandri, M., Sasaki, M., Savini, G., Scott, D., Seibert, J., Sekimoto, Y., Sherwin, B., Shinozaki, K., Shiraishi, M., Shirron, P., Shitvov, A., Signorelli, G., Smecher, G., Spinella, F., Starck, J., Stever, S., Stompor, R., Sudiwala, R., Sugiyama, S., Sullivan, R., Suzuki, A., Suzuki, J., Suzuki, T., Svalheim, T. L., Switzer, E., Takaku, R., Takakura, H., Takakura, S., Takase, Y., Takeda, Y., Tartari, A., Tavagnacco, D., Taylor, A., Taylor, E., Terao, Y., Terenzi, L., Thermeau, J., Thommesen, H., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Toda, T., Tomasi, M., Tominaga, M., Trappe, N., Tristram, M., Tsuji, M., Tsujimoto, M., Tucker, C., Ueki, R., Ullom, J. N., Umemori, K., Vacher, L., Van Lanen, J., Vermeulen, G., Vielva, P., Villa, F., Vissers, M. R., Vittorio, N., Wandelt, B., Wang, W., Wehus, I. K., Weller, J., Westbrook, B., Weymann-Despres, G., Wilms, J., Winter, B., Wollack, E. J., Yamasaki, N. Y., Yoshida, T., Yumoto, J., Watanuki, K., Zacchei, A., Zannoni, M., and Zonca, A.
Published: 2022
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31. Mini-EUSO experiment to study UV emission of terrestrial and astrophysical origin onboard of the International Space Station

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2019

32. The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) mission

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2019

33. Estimation of the exposure for the air shower detection mode of EUSO-SPB1

Author: Shinozaki, K., Bertaina, M., Bisconti, F., Fenu, F., Ferrarese, S., Monte, S., Anzalone, A., Bruno, A., Briz, S., Diaz, A., Eser, J., Wiencke, L., Olinto, A., and Collaboration, M. Vrabel for JEM-EUSO
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: EUSO-SPB1 was a balloon-borne pathfinder mission of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program. A 12-day long flight started from New Zealand on April 25th, 2017 on-board the NASA's Super Pressure Balloon. With capability of detecting EeV energy air showers, the data acquisition was performed using a 1 m^2 two-Fresnel-lens UV-sensitive telescope with fast readout electronics in the air shower detection mode over ~30 hours at ~16--30 km above South Pacific. Using a variety of approaches, we searched for air shower events. Up to now, no air shower events have been identified. The effective exposure, regarding the role of the clouds in particular, was estimated based on the air shower and detector simulations together with a numerical weather forecast model. Compared with the case assuming the fully clear atmosphere conditions, more than ~60% of showers are detectable regardless the presence of the clouds. The studies in the present work will be applied in the follow-up pathfinders and in the future full-scale missions in the JEM-EUSO program., Comment: 8 pages, 9 figures, presented in 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (Madison)
Published: 2019

34. Space Debris detection and tracking with the techniques of cosmic ray physics

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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.
Published: 2019

35. Trigger developments for the fluorescence detector of EUSO-TA and EUSO-SPB2

Author: Battisti, M., Bertaina, M., Fenu, F., Miyamoto, H., Shinozaki, K., Belov, A., Bisconti, F., Mignone, M., and Capel, F.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: The JEM-EUSO program aims at detecting Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) by observing the fluorescence light produced by extensive air showers (EAS) in the Earth's atmosphere. Within this program, a new generation of missions is being built, including (i) Mini-EUSO that will be installed on board the ISS in August 2019, (ii) an upgrade to the ground-based telescope EUSO-TA and (iii) the second super pressure balloon flight (EUSO-SPB2). All these detectors will have a dedicated trigger system based on a board equipped with a Xilinx Zynq device that will be able to detect different types of events on three different time-scales: a microsecond time-scale for cosmic ray detection (L1), a hundreds of microsecond time-scale for slower events like transient luminous events (TLEs) (L2), and a tens of millisecond time-scale used to produce a continuous monitoring, for even slower events like meteors or nuclearites. The L1 trigger logic for the upgrade of EUSO-TA and EUSO-SPB2 are being developed taking into account the peculiarity of each detector (optic system, FOV, frame length) starting from the logic already developed for Mini-EUSO. In particular, every pixel will have an independent threshold that will be dynamically adapted to the level of the background; a predetermined condition on the number, the position and the time distribution of pixels above threshold has to be satisfied in order to issue a trigger. This contribution will summarize the L1 trigger logics and the tests currently performed.
Published: 2019

36. Mini-EUSO engineering model: tests in open-sky condition

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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)
Published: 2019

37. EUSO-TA ground based fluorescence detector: analysis of the detected events

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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)
Published: 2019

38. The EUSO@TurLab: Test of Mini-EUSO Engineering Model

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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 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
Published: 2019

39. POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) design

Author: 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.
Subjects: Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena, Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract: 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
Published: 2019

40. Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector

Author: 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., 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.
Published: 2023
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41. First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere

Author: 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
Subjects: 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
Published: 2018
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42. SPICA - a large cryogenic infrared space telescope Unveiling the obscured Universe

Author: Roelfsema, P. R., Shibai, H., Armus, L., Arrazola, D., Audard, M., Audley, M. D., Bradford, C. M., Charles, I., Dieleman, P., Doi, Y., Duband, L., Eggens, M., Evers, J., Funaki, I., Gao, J. R., Giard, M., Fernández, A. di Giorgio L. M. González, Griffin, M., Helmich, F. P., Hijmering, R., Huisman, R., Ishihara, D., Isobe, N., Jackson, B., Jacobs, H., Jellema, W., Kamp, I., Kaneda, H., Kawada, M., Kemper, F., Kerschbaum, F., Khosropanah, P., Kohno, K., Kooijman, P. P., Krause, O., van der Kuur, J., Kwon, J., Laauwen, W. M., de Lange, G., Larsson, B., van Loon, D., Madden, S. C., Matsuhara, H., Najarro, F., Nakagawa, T., Naylor, D., Ogawa, H., Onaka, T., Oyabu, S., Poglitsch, A., Reveret, V., Rodriguez, L., Spinoglio, L., Sakon, I., Sato, Y., Shinozaki, K., Shipman, R., Sugita, H., Suzuki, T., van der Tak, F. F. S., Redondo, J. Torres, Wada, T., Wang, S. Y., Wafelbakker, C. K., van Weers, H., Withington, S., Vandenbussche, B., Yamada, T., and Yamamura, I.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Abstract: Measurements in the infrared wavelength domain allow us to assess directly the physical state and energy balance of cool matter in space, thus enabling the detailed study of the various processes that govern the formation and early evolution of stars and planetary systems in galaxies over cosmic time. Previous infrared missions, from IRAS to Herschel, have revealed a great deal about the obscured Universe, but sensitivity has been limited because up to now it has not been possible to fly a telescope that is both large and cold. SPICA is a mission concept aimed at taking the next step in mid- and far-infrared observational capability by combining a large and cold telescope with instruments employing state-of-the-art ultra-sensitive detectors. The mission concept foresees a 2.5-meter diameter telescope cooled to below 8 K. With cooling provided by mechanical coolers instead of depending on a limited cryogen supply, the mission lifetime can extend significantly beyond the required three years. SPICA offers instrumentation with spectral resolving powers ranging from R ~50 through 11000 in the 17-230 $\mu$m domain as well as R~28.000 spectroscopy between 12 and 18 $\mu$m. Additionally SPICA will provide efficient 30-37 $\mu$m broad band mapping, and polarimetric imaging in the 100-350 $\mu$m range. SPICA will provide unprecedented spectroscopic sensitivity of ~5 x $10^{-20}$ W/m$^2$ (5$\sigma$/1hr) - at least two orders of magnitude improvement over what has been attained to date. With this exceptional leap in performance, new domains in infrared astronomy will become accessible, allowing us, for example, to unravel definitively galaxy evolution and metal production over cosmic time, to study dust formation and evolution from very early epochs onwards, and to trace the formation history of planetary systems., Comment: 34 pages, 22 figures, paper accepted for publication in PASA on 2nd February 2018, part of the PASA SPICA Special Issue
Published: 2018
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43. The LiteBIRD Satellite Mission - Sub-Kelvin Instrument

Author: Suzuki, A., Ade, P. A. R., Akiba, Y., Alonso, D., Arnold, K., Aumont, J., Baccigalupi, C., Barron, D., Basak, S., Beckman, S., Borrill, J., Boulanger, F., Bucher, M., Calabrese, E., Chinone, Y., Cho, H-M., Cukierman, A., Curtis, D. W., de Haan, T., Dobbs, M., Dominjon, A., Dotani, T., Duband, L., Ducout, A., Dunkley, J., Duval, J. M., Elleflot, T., Eriksen, H. K., Errard, J., Fischer, J., Fujino, T., Funaki, T., Fuskeland, U., Ganga, K., Goeckner-Wald, N., Grain, J., Halverson, N. W., Hamada, T., Hasebe, T., Hasegawa, M., Hattori, K., Hattori, M., Hayes, L., Hazumi, M., Hidehira, N., Hill, C. A., Hilton, G., Hubmayr, J., Ichiki, K., Iida, T., Imada, H., Inoue, M., Inoue, Y., D., K., Ishino, H., Jeong, O., Kanai, H., Kaneko, D., Kashima, S., Katayama, N., Kawasaki, T., Kernasovskiy, S. A., Keskitalo, R., Kibayashi, A., Kida, Y., Kimura, K., Kisner, T., Kohri, K., Komatsu, E., Komatsu, K., Kuo, C. L., Kurinsky, N. A., Kusaka, A., Lazarian, A., Lee, A. T., Li, D., Linder, E., Maffei, B., Mangilli, A., Maki, M., Matsumura, T., Matsuura, S., Meilhan, D., Mima, S., Minami, Y., Mitsuda, K., Montier, L., Nagai, M., Nagasaki, T., Nagata, R., Nakajima, M., Nakamura, S., Namikawa, T., Naruse, M., Nishino, H., Nitta, T., Noguchi, T., Ogawa, H., Oguri, S., Okada, N., Okamoto, A., Okamura, T., Otani, C., Patanchon, G., Pisano, G., Rebeiz, G., Remazeilles, M., Richards, P. L., Sakai, S., Sakurai, Y., Sato, Y., Sato, N., Sawada, M., Segawa, Y., Sekimoto, Y., Seljak, U., Sherwin, B. D., Shimizu, T., Shinozaki, K., Stompor, R., Sugai, H., Sugita, H., Suzuki, J., Tajima, O., Takada, S., Takaku, R., Takakura, S., Takatori, S., Tanabe, D., Taylor, E., Thompson, K. L., Thorne, B., Tomaru, T., Tomida, T., Tomita, N., Tristram, M., Tucker, C., Turin, P., Tsujimoto, M., Uozumi, S., Utsunomiya, S., Uzawa, Y., Vansyngel, F., Wehus, I. K., Westbrook, B., Willer, M., Whitehorn, N., Yamada, Y., Yamamoto, R., Yamasaki, N., Yamashita, T., and Yoshida, M.
Subjects: Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics, Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies
Abstract: Inflation is the leading theory of the first instant of the universe. Inflation, which postulates that the universe underwent a period of rapid expansion an instant after its birth, provides convincing explanation for cosmological observations. Recent advancements in detector technology have opened opportunities to explore primordial gravitational waves generated by the inflation through B-mode (divergent-free) polarization pattern embedded in the Cosmic Microwave Background anisotropies. If detected, these signals would provide strong evidence for inflation, point to the correct model for inflation, and open a window to physics at ultra-high energies. LiteBIRD is a satellite mission with a goal of detecting degree-and-larger-angular-scale B-mode polarization. LiteBIRD will observe at the second Lagrange point with a 400 mm diameter telescope and 2,622 detectors. It will survey the entire sky with 15 frequency bands from 40 to 400 GHz to measure and subtract foregrounds. The U.S. LiteBIRD team is proposing to deliver sub-Kelvin instruments that include detectors and readout electronics. A lenslet-coupled sinuous antenna array will cover low-frequency bands (40 GHz to 235 GHz) with four frequency arrangements of trichroic pixels. An orthomode-transducer-coupled corrugated horn array will cover high-frequency bands (280 GHz to 402 GHz) with three types of single frequency detectors. The detectors will be made with Transition Edge Sensor (TES) bolometers cooled to a 100 milli-Kelvin base temperature by an adiabatic demagnetization refrigerator.The TES bolometers will be read out using digital frequency multiplexing with Superconducting QUantum Interference Device (SQUID) amplifiers. Up to 78 bolometers will be multiplexed with a single SQUID amplidier. We report on the sub-Kelvin instrument design and ongoing developments for the LiteBIRD mission., Comment: 7 pages 2 figures Journal of Low Temperature Physics - Special edition - LTD17 Proceeding
Published: 2018
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44. Onboard performance of the level 1 trigger of the mini-EUSO telescope

Author: 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.
Published: 2022
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45. Pre-flight qualification tests of the Mini-EUSO telescope engineering model

Author: 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.
Published: 2022
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46. POEMMA: Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

Author: 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.
Subjects: 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
Published: 2017

47. Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 calibration: from the laboratory to the desert

Author: 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.
Published: 2021
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48. ATHENA X-IFU 300 K–50 mK cryochain test results

Author: Prouvé, T., Duval, J.M., Charles, I., Yamasaki, N.Y., Mitsuda, K., Nakagawa, T., Shinozaki, K., Tokoku, C., Yamamoto, R., Minami, Y., Le Du, M., Andre, J., Daniel, C., and Linder, M.
Published: 2020
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49. A Review of the EUSO-Balloon Pathfinder for the JEM-EUSO Program

Author: 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.
Published: 2022
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50. LiteBIRD: Mission Overview and Focal Plane Layout

Author: Matsumura, T, Akiba, Y, Arnold, K, Borrill, J, Chendra, R, Chinone, Y, Cukierman, A, de Haan, T, Dobbs, M, Dominjon, A, Elleflot, T, Errard, J, Fujino, T, Fuke, H, Goeckner-wald, N, Halverson, N, Harvey, P, Hasegawa, M, Hattori, K, Hattori, M, Hazumi, M, Hill, C, Hilton, G, Holzapfel, W, Hori, Y, Hubmayr, J, Ichiki, K, Inatani, J, Inoue, M, Inoue, Y, Irie, F, Irwin, K, Ishino, H, Ishitsuka, H, Jeong, O, Karatsu, K, Kashima, S, Katayama, N, Kawano, I, Keating, B, Kibayashi, A, Kibe, Y, Kida, Y, Kimura, K, Kimura, N, Kohri, K, Komatsu, E, Kuo, CL, Kuromiya, S, Kusaka, A, Lee, A, Linder, E, Matsuhara, H, Matsuoka, S, Matsuura, S, Mima, S, Mitsuda, K, Mizukami, K, Morii, H, Morishima, T, Nagai, M, Nagasaki, T, Nagata, R, Nakajima, M, Nakamura, S, Namikawa, T, Naruse, M, Natsume, K, Nishibori, T, Nishijo, K, Nishino, H, Nitta, T, Noda, A, Noguchi, T, Ogawa, H, Oguri, S, Ohta, IS, Otani, C, Okada, N, Okamoto, A, Okamura, T, Rebeiz, G, Richards, P, Sakai, S, Sato, N, Sato, Y, Segawa, Y, Sekiguchi, S, Sekimoto, Y, Sekine, M, Seljak, U, Sherwin, B, Shinozaki, K, Shu, S, Stompor, R, Sugai, H, Sugita, H, Suzuki, T, and Suzuki, A
Subjects: Particle and High Energy Physics, Physical Sciences, Inflation, CMB, Polarization, Primordial B-mode, TES bolometer, MKID, Satellite, Mathematical Physics, Classical Physics, Condensed Matter Physics, General Physics, Classical physics, Condensed matter physics
Abstract: LiteBIRD is a proposed CMB polarization satellite project to probe the inflationary B-mode signal. The satellite is designed to measure the tensor-to-scalar ratio with a 68 % confidence level uncertainty of σr< 10 - 3, including statistical, instrumental systematic, and foreground uncertainties. LiteBIRD will observe the full sky from the second Lagrange point for 3 years. We have a focal plane layout for observing frequency coverage that spans 40–402 GHz to characterize the galactic foregrounds. We have two detector candidates, transition-edge sensor bolometers and microwave kinetic inductance detectors. In both cases, a telecentric focal plane consists of approximately 2 × 10 3 superconducting detectors. We will present the mission overview of LiteBIRD, the project status, and the TES focal plane layout.
Published: 2016

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