Implications of Mini-EUSO measurements for a space-based observation of UHECRs

JEM-EUSO Collaboration

Implications of Mini-EUSO measurements for a space-based observation of UHECRs

JEM-EUSO Collaboration

École Polytechnique

University of Turin
INFN Sezione di Torino
Astroparticule and Cosmol APC
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Science and Research Directorate
Universität Karlsruhe/Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe
Nihon University
University of Alabama in Huntsville
Gran Sasso Science Institute
Lehman College
INFN Sezione di Catania
INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
College of Computing
Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali (IAPS)
INFN Sezione di Bari
Università degli studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Moscow State University
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
INFN Roma Tor Vergata
Riken
University of Chicago
University of Rome “Tor Vergata”
INFN Sezione di Napoli
Max-Planck-Institut für Physik
Università degli Studi di Catania
Joint Laboratory of Optics
University of Naples Federico II
UTIU
University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory
Pennsylvania State University
Colorado School of Mines
University of Tokyo
Institute of Meteorology and Climate Research
Konan University
Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Institute of Physics of the Czech Academy of Sciences
National Centre for Nuclear Research
University of Utah
Univ. Mentouri de Constantine
National Astronomical Observatory
University of Iowa
Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna
Institut Universitaire de France
Sungkyunkwan University
University of Warsaw
LNF-INFN
Space Regatta Consortium
Hokkaido University
Shinshu University
University of Geneva
Centre de Développement des Technologies Avancées
Fairfield University

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Abstract

Mini-EUSO is the first mission of the JEM-EUSO program on board the International Space Station. It was launched in August 2019 and it is operating since October 2019 being located in the Russian section (Zvezda module) of the station and viewing our planet from a nadir-facing UV-transparent window. The instrument is based on the concept of the original JEM-EUSO mission and consists of an optical system employing two Fresnel lenses of 25 cm each 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 44×44^◦. Mini-EUSO can map the night-time Earth in the near UV range (predominantly between 290 nm and 430 nm), with a spatial resolution of about 6.3 km and different temporal resolutions of 2.5 μs, 320 μs and 41 ms. Mini-EUSO observations are extremely important to better assess the potential of a space-based detector in studying Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) such as K-EUSO and POEMMA. In this contribution we focus the attention on the results of the UV measurements and we place them in the context of UHECR observations from space, namely the estimation of exposure.

Original language	English
Article number	272
Journal	Proceedings of Science
Volume	444
Publication status	Published - 27 Sept 2024
Event	38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japan Duration: 26 Jul 2023 → 3 Aug 2023

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Implications of Mini-EUSO measurements for a space-based observation of UHECRs

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