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The Mini-EUSO telescope on board the ISS: in-flight operations and performances

Authors :
Marcelli, L.
Battisti, M.
Belov, A.
Bertaina, M.
Cambiè, G.
Capel, F.
Casolino, M.
Ebisuzaki, T.
Fuglesang, C.
Klimov, P.
Parizot, E.
Picozza, P.
Piotrowski, L.W.
Prévôt, G.
Reali, E.
Ricci, M.
Sakaki, N.
Szabelski, J.
Takizawa, Y.
AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164))
Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris
Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
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.

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 :
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