TY - JOUR
T1 - Atmospheric background measurement in the 300-400 NM band with a balloon borne experiment during a nocturnal flight
AU - La Rosa, Giovanni
AU - Agnetta, Gaetano
AU - Biondo, Benedetto
AU - Catalano, Osvaldo
AU - Celi, Filippo
AU - Di Raffaele, Renato
AU - Giarrusso, Salvatore
AU - Mangano, Angelo
AU - Russo, Francesco
AU - Linsley, John
AU - Lo Bue, Angelo
PY - 2001/12/1
Y1 - 2001/12/1
N2 - The balloon borne experiment, named BABY (BAckground BYpass) belongs to a wider program, AIRWATCH-OWL, intended for the observation of high energy Cosmic Rays from space, detecting the faint UV fluorescence light emitted by the atmospheric Nitrogen as final result of a complex hadronic cascade. In this framework, one of the fundamental information concern the knowledge of the background level. This is one of the main parameters that contribute to the sensitivity of any kind of instrument. The apparatus used for the BABY experiment was designed and completely built at the IFCAI-CNR in Palermo. The instrument is composed by two filtered and collimated photomultipliers (PMT) that detect the UV light in the 300-400 nm wavelength. We report a brief description of the design of the detector and the results coming from a preliminary analysis of the data taken during a nocturnal over-sea observation.
AB - The balloon borne experiment, named BABY (BAckground BYpass) belongs to a wider program, AIRWATCH-OWL, intended for the observation of high energy Cosmic Rays from space, detecting the faint UV fluorescence light emitted by the atmospheric Nitrogen as final result of a complex hadronic cascade. In this framework, one of the fundamental information concern the knowledge of the background level. This is one of the main parameters that contribute to the sensitivity of any kind of instrument. The apparatus used for the BABY experiment was designed and completely built at the IFCAI-CNR in Palermo. The instrument is composed by two filtered and collimated photomultipliers (PMT) that detect the UV light in the 300-400 nm wavelength. We report a brief description of the design of the detector and the results coming from a preliminary analysis of the data taken during a nocturnal over-sea observation.
U2 - 10.1023/A:1011634028532
DO - 10.1023/A:1011634028532
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:18044372419
SN - 0004-640X
VL - 276
SP - 219
EP - 226
JO - Astrophysics and Space Science
JF - Astrophysics and Space Science
IS - 1
ER -