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JEM-EUSO is a space science mission to explore extreme energies and physics of the Universe. Its instrument will watch the dark-side of the earth and will detect UV photons emitted from the extensive air shower caused by an Ultra-High…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Yoshiyuki Takahashi , the JEM-EUSO Collaboration

We present the data acquisition and control software for the operation of the Mini-Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO), a space-based fluorescence telescope for the observation of extensive air showers and atmospheric phenomena. This…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-12 F. Capel , A. Belov , G. Cambiè , M. Casolino , C. Fornaro , P. Klimov , L. Marcelli , L. W. Piotrowski , S. Turriziani

The origin of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) remains unsolved in contemporary astroparticle physics. The objective of the JEM-EUSO program is the realization of a space mission devoted to UHECR physics. Several detectors have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-27 Francesco Fenu

The origin and nature of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) remain unsolved in contemporary astroparticle physics. To give an answer to these questions is rather challenging because of the extremely low flux of a few per km$^2$ per…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-10 Mario Bertaina , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

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

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…

Space Debris (SD) consist of non-operational artificial objects orbiting around the Earth, which could possibly damage space vehicles, such as the International Space Station (ISS) or other manned spacecrafts. The vast majority of such…

Future detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) produced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Particles (UHECP) by means of space based fluorescence telescopes will open a new window on the universe and allow cosmic ray and neutrino astronomy at a…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-15 C. Berat , S. Bottai , D. De Marco , S. Moreggia , D. Naumov , M. Pallavicini , R. Pesce , A. Petrolini , A. Stutz , E. Taddei , A. Thea

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…

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 Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) will be launched and attached to the Japanese module of the International Space Station (ISS). Its aim is to observe UV photon tracks produced by ultra-high…

Mini-EUSO is a small, near-UV telescope observing the Earth and its atmosphere from the International Space Station. The time resolution of 2.5 microseconds and the instantaneous ground coverage of about $320\times 320$ km$^2$ allows it to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-25 Lech Wiktor Piotrowski

EUSO-TA is a pathfinder experiment for the space based JEM-EUSO mission for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-TA is an high-resolution fluorescence telescope installed in front of the Black Rock Mesa fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Francesca Bisconti

Fluorescence telescopes are among the key instruments used for studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays in all modern experiments. We use model data for a small ground-based telescope EUSO-TA to try some methods of machine learning and neural…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Mikhail Zotov , Pavel Zakharov

An Atmospheric Monitoring System (AMS) is a mandatory and key device of a space-based mission which aims to detect Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) and Extremely-High Energy Cosmic Rays (EHECR) from Space. JEM-EUSO has a dedicated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 M. D. Rodriguez Frias , S. Toscano , E. Bozzo , L. del Peral , A. Neronov , S. Wada

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

EUSO-TA is a ground-based telescope, located at the Black Rock Mesa site of Telescope Array (TA), Utah, USA. The main aim of the instrument is observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays through detection of ultraviolet light generated by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Lech Wiktor Piotrowski

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) flew on May 13$^{\text{th}}$ and 14$^{\text{th}}$ of 2023. Consisting of two novel optical telescopes, the payload utilized next-generation instrumentation for…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-09-24 James H. Adams , Denis Allard , Phillip Alldredge , Luis Anchordoqui , Anna Anzalone , Matteo Battisti , Alexander A. Belov , Mario Bertaina , Peter F. Bertone , Sylvie Blin-Bondil , Julia Burton , Francesco S. Cafagna , Marco Casolino , Karel Černý , Mark J. Christ , Roberta Colalillo , Hank J. Crawford , Alexandre Creusot , Austin Cummings , Rebecca Diesing , Alessandro Di Nola , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki , Johannes Eser , Silvia Ferrarese , George Filippatos , William W. Finch , Flavia Flaminio , Claudio Fornaro , Duncan Fuehne , Christer Fuglesang , Diksha Garg , Alessio Golzio , Fausto Guarino , Claire Guépin , Tobias Heibges , Eleanor G. Judd , Pavel A. Klimov , John F. Krizmanic , Viktoria Kungel , Luke Kupari , Evgeny Kuznetsov , Massimiliano Manfrin , Wlodzimierz Marszal , John N. Matthews , Marco Mese , Stephan S. Meyer , Marco Mignone , Hiroko Miyamoto , Alexey S. Murashov , Jane M. Nachtman , Angela V. Olinto , Yasar Onel , Giuseppe Osteria , Beatrice Panico , Ètienne Parizot , Tom Paul , Miroslav Pech , Francesco Perfetto , Lech W. Piotrowski , Zbigniew Plebaniak , Jonatan Posligua , Guillaume Prévôt , Marika Przybylak , Patrick Reardon , Mary Hall Reno , Marco Ricci , Fred Sarazin , P. Schovánek , Valentina Scotti , Kenji Shinozaki , Jorge F. Soriano , Ben K. Stillwell , Jacek Szabelski , Yoshiyuki Takizawa , Daniil Trofimov , Fredrik Unel , Laura Valore , Tonia M. Venters , John Watts , Lawrence Wiencke , Hannah Wistrand , Roy Young

EUSO-TA is a ground-based experiment, placed at Black Rock Mesa of the Telescope Array site as a part of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) program. The UV fluorescence imaging telescope with…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-21 Z. Plebaniak , M. Przybylak , D. Barghini , M. Bertaina , F. Bisconti , M. Casolino , D. Gardiol , R. Lipiec , L. W. Piotrowski , K. Shinozaki , J. Szabelski

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory-Telescope Array (EUSO-TA) is a ground-based experiment, part of the JEM-EUSO (Joint Experiment Missions -- Extreme Universe Space Observatory) dedicated to the observation of Ultra High Energy Cosmic…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-12 Z. Plebaniak , J. Szabelski , M. Przybylak , L. W. Piotrowski , A. Djakonow , K. Krolik