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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 $\gtrsim 10 \, {\rm PeV}$ neutrinos. The original plan…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 Tobias Heibges , Jonatan Posligua , Hannah Wistrand , Claire Guépin , Mary Hall Reno , Tonia M. Venters

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 Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) is the second balloon pathfinder of the JEM-EUSO collaboration. It is a nadir pointing UV telescope which aims at observing Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-19 Abraham Diaz Damian

Earth-skimming tau neutrinos with energies above $\sim 10$ PeV can convert to tau leptons that decay in the atmosphere and initiate upward-going extensive air showers that generate optical Cherenkov signals. On a curtailed NASA balloon…

The second generation of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) is a balloon instrument for the detection of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies above 1 EeV and very high energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-12-22 Rebecca Diesing , Alexa Bukowski , Noah Friedlander , Alex Miller , Stephan Meyer , Angela V. Olinto

Astrophysical Very-High-Energy (VHE, >10PeV) neutrinos deliver crucial information about the sources of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs), the composition of UHECRs, and neutrino/particle physics at highest energies. UHE-tau neutrinos…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-31 Eliza Gazda

In this paper we present the Data Processor (DP) of EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon, mission two) telescopes . The EUSO-SPB2 is the continuation of the JEM-EUSO science program on ultra-long…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-05 Giuseppe Osteria , Valentina Scotti , Francesco Perfetto

The second generation of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) is a balloon instrument that searched for ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies above 1 EeV and very high energy…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-16 Rebecca Diesing , Stephan S. Meyer , Johannes Eser , Alexa Bukowski , Alex Miller , Jake Apfel , Gerard Beck , Angela V. Olinto

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube in the TeV-PeV energy range motivates the development of instruments for observing these particles at higher energies. Moreover, the detection of very-high-energy (VHE) neutrinos could…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-12 Oscar Fernando Romero Matamala

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube and the potential to constrain source models of ultra-high energy cosmic rays provide the motivation to develop instruments for the observation of neutrinos above $10^7$ GeV. Among the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-23 A. Nepomuk Otte , Eliza Gazda , Eleanor Judd , John F. Krizmanic , Evgeny Kutzenzov , Oscar Romero Matamala , Patrick J. Reardon , Lawrence Wiencke

EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II) is a precursor mission for a future space observatory for multi-messenger astrophysics, planned to be launched in Spring 2023 with a flight duration target of 100…

The JEM-EUSO Collaboration aims at studying Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) from space. To reach this goal, a series of pathfinder missions has been developed to prove the observation principle and to raise the technological readiness…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-30 Valentina Scotti , Giuseppe Osteria , Francesco Perfetto

Mini--EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, known as \emph{UV atmosphere} in the Russian Space Program) is the first mission of the JEM-EUSO program on board the International Space…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-18 Mario Bertaina , Matteo Battisti , JEM-EUSO collaboration

Cosmic-ray accelerators capable of reaching ultra-high energies are expected to also produce very-high energy neutrinos via hadronic interactions within the source or its surrounding environment. Many of the candidate astrophysical source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-07 Tonia M. Venters , Mary Hall Reno , John F. Krizmanic

Mini-EUSO will observe the Earth in the UV range (300 - 400 nm) offering the opportunity to study a variety of atmospheric events such as Transient Luminous Events (TLEs), meteors and marine bioluminescence. Furthermore it aims to search…

The second generation Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super-Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB2) mission is a stratospheric balloon mission developed within the Joint Exploratory Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory (JEM-EUSO)…

Mini-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a small-scale prototype cosmic-ray detector that will measure Earth`s UV emission and other atmospheric phenomena from space. It will be placed in the International Space Station (ISS)…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Viktoria Kungel , Mario E. Bertaina , Francesca Bisconti , Marco Casolino , Johannes Eser , Lawrence Wiencke , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

The JEM-EUSO (Joint Exploratory Missions for Extreme Universe Space Observatory) collaboration is an international initiative studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and related phenomena. These particles, with energies exceeding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-24 Zbigniew Plebaniak

Mini-EUSO is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band from the International Space Station. It is a part of the JEM-EUSO program, paving the way to future larger missions, such as KEUSO and POEMMA, devoted primarily to the…