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Overview of the EUSO-SPB2 Target of Opportunity program using the Cherenkov Telescope

  • JEM-EUSO Collaboration
  • Colorado School of Mines
  • Nihon University
  • University of Alabama in Huntsville
  • Astroparticule and Cosmol APC
  • Gran Sasso Science Institute
  • Lehman College
  • INFN Sezione di Catania
  • INAF Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica di Palermo
  • INFN Sezione di Torino
  • University of Turin
  • 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
  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology
  • 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
  • Università di Napoli Federico II
  • University of Naples Federico II
  • UTIU
  • University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory
  • Pennsylvania State University
  • Science and Research Directorate

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Abstract

During the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) mission, we planned Target of Opportunity (ToO) operations to follow up on possible sources of ≳ 10 PeV neutrinos. The original plan before flight was to point the onboard Cherenkov Telescope (CT) to catch the source’s path on the sky just below Earth’s horizon. By using the Earth as a tau-neutrino to tau-lepton converter, the CT would then be able to look for optical extensive air shower signals induced by tau-lepton decays in the atmosphere. The CT had a field of view of 6.4 vertical × 12.8 horizontal. Possible neutrino source candidates include gamma ray bursts, tidal disruption events and other bursting or flaring sources. In addition, follow-ups of binary neutron star mergers would have been possible after the start of the O4 observation run from LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA. The resulting exposure is modeled using the NuSpaceSim framework in ToO mode. With the launch of the EUSO-SPB2 payload on the 13th May 2023, this summarizes the ToO program status and preliminary data, as available.

Original languageEnglish
Article number1134
JournalProceedings of Science
Volume444
Publication statusPublished - 27 Sept 2024
Event38th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2023 - Nagoya, Japan
Duration: 26 Jul 20233 Aug 2023

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