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The detection of Cerenkov light from EAS in a delayed coincidence with fluorescence light gives a strong signature to discriminate protons and neutrinos in cosmic rays. For this purpose, the ULTRA experiment has been designed with 2…

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth from the International Space Station since 2019. The instrument employs a Fresnel-lens optical system and a…

The ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos are powerful astrophysical probes for both astrophysical mechanisms of particle acceleration and fundamental interactions. They open a window into the very distant and high-energy Universe that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Galina Vankova , Stefan Mladenov , Marian Bogomilov , Roumen Tsenov , Mario Bertaina , Andrea Santangelo

The latest and most advanced effort towards a space-based optical cosmic ray detector developed within the Joint Experiment Mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (JEM-EUSO) collaboration was the Extreme Universe Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-27 J. Eser , A. Olinto , L. Wiencke

The JEM-EUSO observatory on board of the International Space Station (ISS) is a proposed pioneering space mission devoted to the investigation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs). Looking downward at the earth's atmosphere with a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Toscano , A. Neronov , M. D. Rodríguez Frías , S. Wada

The trigger logic of the Tracking Ultraviolet Setup (TUS) and Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (Mini-EUSO) space-based projects of the Joint Experiment Missions - EUSO (JEM-EUSO) program is…

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2) launched from Wanaka, New Zealand on May 13th 2023. Consisting of two optical telescopes, EUSO-SPB2 aimed to search for very high energy neutrinos (E>PeV) via…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-28 George Filippatos

TARA (Telescope Array Radar) is a cosmic ray radar detection experiment colocated with Telescope Array, the conventional surface scintillation detector (SD) and fluorescence telescope detector (FD) near Delta, Utah, U.S.A. The TARA detector…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-12-07 R. U. Abbasi , M. Abe , M. Abou Bakr Othman , T. Abu-Zayyad , M. Allen , R. Anderson , R. Azuma , E. Barcikowski , J. W. Belz , D. R. Bergman , D. Besson , S. A. Blake , M. Byrne , R. Cady , M. J. Chae , B. G. Cheon , J. Chiba , M. Chikawa , W. R. Cho , B. Farhang-Boroujeny , T. Fujii , M. Fukushima , W. H. Gillman , T. Goto , W. Hanlon , J. C. Hanson , Y. Hayashi , N. Hayashida , K. Hibino , K. Honda , D. Ikeda , N. Inoue , T. Ishii , R. Ishimori , H. Ito , D. Ivanov , C. Jayanthmurthy , C. C. H. Jui , K. Kadota , F. Kakimoto , O. Kalashev , K. Kasahara , H. Kawai , S. Kawakami , S. Kawana , K. Kawata , E. Kido , H. B. Kim , J. H. Kim , J. H. Kim , S. Kitamura , Y. Kitamura , S. Kunwar , V. Kuzmin , Y. J. Kwon , J. Lan , S. I. Lim , J. P. Lundquist , K. Machida , K. Martens , T. Matsuda , T. Matsuyama , J. N. Matthews , M. Minamino , K. Mukai , I. Myers , K. Nagasawa , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , T. Nonaka , A. Nozato , S. Ogio , J. Ogura , M. Ohnishi , H. Ohoka , K. Oki , T. Okuda , M. Ono , A. Oshima , S. Ozawa , I. H. Park , S. Prohira , M. S. Pshirkov , A. Rezazadeh-Reyhani , D. C. Rodriguez , G. Rubtsov , D. Ryu , H. Sagawa , N. Sakurai , A. L. Sampson , L. M. Scott , D. Schurig , P. D. Shah , F. Shibata , T. Shibata , H. Shimodaira , B. K. Shin , J. D. Smith , P. Sokolsky , R. W. Springer , B. T. Stokes , S. R. Stratton , T. A. Stroman , T. Suzawa , H. Takai , M. Takamura , M. Takeda , R. Takeishi , A. Taketa , M. Takita , Y. Tameda , H. Tanaka , K. Tanaka , M. Tanaka , S. B. Thomas , G. B. Thomson , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , H. Tokuno , T. Tomida , S. Troitsky , Y. Tsunesada , K. Tsutsumi , Y. Uchihori , S. Udo , F. Urban , G. Vasiloff , S. Venkatesh , T. Wong , R. Yamane , H. Yamaoka , K. Yamazaki , J. Yang , K. Yashiro , Y. Yoneda , S. Yoshida , H. Yoshii , R. Zollinger , Z. Zundel

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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-29 M. Bertaina , M. Battisti , M. Bianciotto , K. Bolmgren , F. Fenu

We address the challenge of reconstructing the energy of three ultra-high-energy cosmic rays registered with a small fluorescence telescope EUSO-TA that operated in 2015 at the site of the Telescope Array experiment in Utah, USA. Each of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-14 Mikhail Zotov , Andrei Trusov

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory Supper Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) is under development, and will prototype instrumentation for future satellite-based missions, including the Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA).…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 G. Filippatos , M. Battisti , M. Bertaina , F. Bisconti , J. Esser , C. Heaton , G. Osteria , F. Sarazin , L. Wiencke

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2) is a second generation stratospheric balloon instrument for the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs, E > 1 EeV) via the fluorescence technique…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-21 J. Eser , A. V. Olinto , L. Wiencke

Mini-EUSO is the first detector of the JEM-EUSO program deployed on the ISS. It is a wide field of view telescope currently operating from a nadir-facing UV-transparent window on the ISS. It is based on an array of MAPMTs working in photon…

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory - Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) mission will fly two custom telescopes that feature Schmidt optics to measure \v{C}erenkov- and fluorescence-emission of extensive air-showers from cosmic rays at…

Mini-EUSO is a mission of the JEM-EUSO program flying onboard the International Space Station since August 2019. Since the first data acquisition in October 2019, more than 35 sessions have been performed for a total of 52 hours of…

The Telescope Array (TA) is the largest ultrahigh energy (UHE) cosmic ray observatory in the northern hemisphere TA is a hybrid experiment with a unique combination of fluorescence detectors and a stand-alone surface array of scintillation…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Charles C. H. Jui

The next generation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) and very-high energy neutrino observatories will address the challenge of the extremely low fluxes of these particles at the highest energies. EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-20 A. Cummings , J. Eser , G. Filippatos , A. V. Olinto , T. M. Venters , L. Wiencke

Mini-EUSO is the first space-borne detector of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Exploratory Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program, operating on the International Space Station (ISS) since October 2019. Designed to search for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-01-19 Matteo Battisti

The JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program aims at the realization of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) observation using wide field of view fluorescence detectors in orbit. Ultra-violet…