Expected performance of the K-EUSO space-based observatory
Abstract
K-EUSO is a planned mission of the JEM-EUSO program for the study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) from space, to be deployed on the International Space Station. The K-EUSO observatory consists of a UV telescope with a wide field of view, which aims at the detection of fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers (EAS) in the atmosphere. The EAS events will be sampled with a time resolution of 1-2.5 s to reconstruct the entire shower profile with high precision. The detector consisting of independent pixels will allow a spatial resolution of 700 m on ground. From a 400 km altitude, K-EUSO will achieve a large and full sky exposure to sample the highest energy range of the UHECR spectrum. In this contribution, we present estimates of the performance of the observatory: an estimation of the expected exposure and triggered event rate as a function of energy and the event reconstruction performance, including resolution of arrival directions and energy of UHECRs.
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@article{arxiv.2112.11302,
title = {Expected performance of the K-EUSO space-based observatory},
author = {Francesco Fenu and Sergei Sharakin and Mikhail Zotov and Naoto Sakaki and Yoshiyuki Takizawa and Marta Bianciotto and Mario Bertaina and Marco Casolino and Pavel Klimov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.11302},
year = {2021}
}