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The Mini-EUSO telescope on board the ISS: in-flight operations and performances
- Source :
- J.Phys.Conf.Ser., 5th International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics, 5th International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics, May 2021, Online, United States. pp.012048, ⟨10.1088/1742-6596/2374/1/012048⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- IOP Publishing, 2022.
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Abstract
- International audience; Mini-EUSO is a high sensitivity imaging telescope that observes the Earth from the ISS in the ultraviolet band (2904÷430 nm), through the UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module. The instrument, launched in 2019 as part of the ESA mission Beyond, has a field of view of 44°, a spatial resolution on the Earth surface of 6.3 km and a temporal resolution of 2.5 microseconds. The telescope detects UV emissions of cosmic, atmospheric and terrestrial origin on different time scales, from a few microseconds upwards. Mini-EUSO main detector optics is composed of two Fresnel lenses focusing light onto an array of 36 Hamamatsu multi-anode photomultiplier tubes, for a total of 2304 pixels. The telescope also contains: two ancillary cameras to complement measurements in the near infrared and visible ranges, an array of Silicon-PhotoMultipliers and UV sensors to manage night-day transitions. In this work we will describe the in-flight operations and performances of the various instruments in the first months after launch.
Details
- ISSN :
- 17426596 and 17426588
- Volume :
- 2374
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Physics: Conference Series
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....cf8fe122029250452aaa97a77e4e1231