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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 Joint Experiment Missions for Extreme Universe Observatory comprises a collection of complementary missions dedicated to pioneering technologies and techniques for a future space-based multi-messenger observatory which will have…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-10 Thomas C. Paul

JEM-EUSO is an international program for the development of space based Ultra High Cosmic Ray observatories. The program consists of a series of missions which are either under development or in the data analysis phase. The instruments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-27 Francesco Fenu , Kenji Shinozaki , Hiroko Miyamoto , Alessandro Liberatore , Naoto Sakaki , Sergei Sharakin , Mikhail Zotov , Gabriel Chiritoi

Mini-EUSO is the first mission of the JEM-EUSO program located on the International Space Station. One of the main goals of the mission is to provide valuable scientific data in view of future large missions devoted to study Ultra-High…

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

TUS (Tracking Ultraviolet Set-up) is the world's first orbital detector of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). It was launched into orbit on 28th April 2016 as a part of the scientific payload of the Lomonosov satellite. The main aim of…

The planned JEM-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the ISS Japanese Experimental Module) will measure the energy spectra of cosmic rays up to the range of 1000 EeV and will search for direction to their sources. It will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Blahoslav Pastirčák , Pavol Bobík , Karel Kudela

Future experiments based on the observation of Earth's atmosphere from sub-orbital and orbital altitudes plan to include optical Cherenkov cameras to observe extensive air showers produced by high-energy cosmic radiation via its interaction…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-22 Austin Cummings , Roberto Aloisio , Johannes Eser , John Krizmanic

EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25$^{th}$ of August 2014 from Timmins, Canada. The flight ended…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-09 G. Abdellaoui , S. Abe , J. H. Adams , A. Ahriche , D. Allard , L. Allen , G. Alonso , L. Anchordoqui , A. Anzalone , Y. Arai , K. Asano , R. Attallah , H. Attoui , M. Ave Pernas , S. Bacholle , M. Bakiri , P. Baragatti , P. Barrillon , S. Bartocci , J. Bayer , B. Beldjilali , T. Belenguer , N. Belkhalfa , R. Bellotti , A. Belov , K. Belov , K. Benmessai , M. Bertaina , P. L. Biermann , S. Biktemerova , F. Bisconti , N. Blanc , J. Błȩcki , S. Blin-Bondil , P. Bobik , M. Bogomilov , E. Bozzo , A. Bruno , K. S. Caballero , F. Cafagna , D. Campana , J-N. Capdevielle , F. Capel , A. Caramete , L. Caramete , P. Carlson , R. Caruso , M. Casolino , C. Cassardo , A. Castellina , C. Catalano O. Catalano , A. Cellino , M. Chikawa , G. Chiritoi , M. J. Christl , V. Connaughton , L. Conti , G. Cordero , G. Cotto , H. J. Crawford , R. Cremonini , S. Csorna , A. Cummings , S. Dagoret-Campagne , C. De Donato , C. de la Taille , C. De Santis , L. del Peral , M. Di Martino , A. Diaz Damian , T. Djemil , I. Dutan , A. Ebersoldt , T. Ebisuzaki , R. Engel , J. Eser , F. Fenu , S. Fernández-González , J. Fernández-Soriano , S. Ferrarese , M. Flamini , C. Fornaro , M. Fouka , A. Franceschi , S. Franchini , C. Fuglesang , T. Fujii , J. Fujimoto , M. Fukushima , P. Galeotti , E. García-Ortega , G. Garipov , E. Gascón , J. Genci , G. Giraudo , C. González Alvarado , P. Gorodetzky , R. Greg , F. Guarino , A. Guzmán , Y. Hachisu , M. Haiduc , B. Harlov , A. Haungs , J. Hernández Carretero , W. Hidber Cruz , D. Ikeda , N. Inoue , S. Inoue , F. Isgrò , Y. Itow , T. Jammer , S. Jeong , E. Joven , E. G. Judd , A. Jung , J. Jochum , F. Kajino , T. Kajino , S. Kalli , I. Kaneko , Y. Karadzhov , J. Karczmarczyk , K. Katahira , K. Kawai , Y. Kawasaki , A. Kedadra , H. Khales , B. A. Khrenov , Jeong-Sook Kim , Soon-Wook Kim , M. Kleifges , P. A. Klimov , D. Kolev , H. Krantz , I. Kreykenbohm , K. Kudela , Y. Kurihara , A. Kusenko , E. Kuznetsov , A. La Barbera , C. Lachaud , H. Lahmar , F. Lakhdari , R. Larson , O. Larsson , J. Lee , J. Licandro , L. López Campano , M. C. Maccarone , S. Mackovjak , M. Mahdi , D. Maravilla , L. Marcelli , J. L. Marcos , A. Marini , W. Marszał , K. Martens , Y. Martín , O. Martinez , M. Martucci , G. Masciantonio , K. Mase , M. Mastafa , R. Matev , J. N. Matthews , N. Mebarki , G. Medina-Tanco , M. A. Mendoza , A. Menshikov , A. Merino , J. Meseguer , S. S. Meyer , J. Mimouni , H. Miyamoto , Y. Mizumoto , A. Monaco , J. A. Morales de los Ríos , C. Moretto S. Nagataki , S. Naitamor , T. Napolitano , W. Naslund , R. Nava , A. Neronov , K. Nomoto , T. Nonaka , T. Ogawa , S. Ogio , H. Ohmori , A. V. Olinto , P. Orleański , G. Osteria , A. Pagliaro , W. Painter , M. I. Panasyuk , B. Panico , G. Pasqualino , E. Parizot , I. H. Park , B. Pastircak , T. Patzak , T. Paul , I. Pérez-Grande , F. Perfetto , T. Peter , P. Picozza , S. Pindado , L. W. Piotrowski , S. Piraino , L. Placidi , Z. Plebaniak , S. Pliego , A. Pollini , Z. Polonski , E. M. Popescu , P. Prat , G. Prévôt , H. Prieto , G. Puehlhofer , M. Putis , J. Rabanal , A. A. Radu , M. Reyes , M. Rezazadeh , M. Ricci , M. D. Rodríguez Frías , M. Rodencal , F. Ronga , G. Roudil , I. Rusinov , M. Rybczyński , M. D. Sabau , G. Sáez Cano , H. Sagawa , Z. Sahnoune , A. Saito , N. Sakaki , H. Salazar , J. C. Sanchez Balanzar , J. L. Sánchez , A. Santangelo , A. Sanz-Andrés , M. Sanz Palomino , O. Saprykin , F. Sarazin , M. Sato , T. Schanz , H. Schieler , V. Scotti , S. Selmane , D. Semikoz , M. Serra , S. Sharakin , H. M. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , T. Shirahama , B. Spataro , I. Stan , T. Sugiyama , D. Supanitsky , M. Suzuki , B. Szabelska , J. Szabelski , N. Tajima , T. Tajima , Y. Takahashi , H. Takami , M. Takeda , Y. Takizawa , M. C. Talai , C. Tenzer , S. B. Thomas , O. Tibolla , L. Tkachev , H. Tokuno , T. Tomida , N. Tone , S. Toscano , M. Traïche , R. Tsenov , Y. Tsunesada , K. Tsuno , J. Tubbs , S. Turriziani , Y. Uchihori , O. Vaduvescu , J. F. Valdés-Galicia , P. Vallania , G. Vankova , C. Vigorito , L. Villaseñor , B. Vlcek , P. von Ballmoos , M. Vrabel , S. Wada , J. Watanabe , J. Watts , M. Weber , R. Weigand Muñoz , A. Weindl , L. Wiencke , M. Wille , J. Wilms , Z. Włodarczyk , T. Yamamoto , J. Yang , H. Yano , I. V. Yashin , D. Yonetoku , S. Yoshida , R. Young , I. S Zgura , M. Yu. Zotov , A. Zuccaro Marchi

A review of the current status of the field of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) including a summary of remaining open questions was presented in the white paper "Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays: at the Intersection of the Cosmic and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 J. Adams , J. Alfaro , D. Allard , P. Alldredge , R. Aloisio , R. Ammendola , A. Anastasio , L. Anchordoqui , D. Badoni , J. Baláž , B. Baret , L. Bar-On , M. Battisti , R. Bellotti , M. Bertaina , M. Betts , S. Blin , M. Boezio , P. Bořil , J. Brague , I. Buckland , J. Burton Heibges , F. S. Cafagna , P. Cao , J. Caraca , R. Caruso , M. Casolino , K. Černý , N. Cordrey , A. Creusot , A. Cummings , P. Degarate , C. De Santis , A. DiGiovanni , B. J. DiLella A. DiSalvo , J. Eser , S. Ferrarese , G. Filippatos , W. Finch , J. Ford , C. Fornaro , A. Fox-Smith , A. Froid , P. Gálvez Molina , S. Garbolino , D. Garg , B. Gockel , C. Guepin , A. Haungs , T. Heibges , J. Hicks , J. Hinkel , J. Krizmanic , L. Kupari , E. H. Lenzing , F. Liberatori , S. Mackovjak , D. Mandát , M. Manfrin , A. Marcelli , L. Marcelli , G. Masciantonio , V. Masone , E. Mayotte , E. Mentzell , A. Meli , M. Mese , S. Meyer , M. Mignone , M. Miller , M. Mongelli , J. Moses , E. Msihid , R. Munini , M. Murdock , A. Novikov , S. O'Brien , A. V. Olinto , Y. Onel , G. Osteria , B. Panico , E. Parizot , G. Passeggio , T. Paul , M. Pech , K. Penalo Castillo , F. Perfetto , C. Petta , P. Picozza , L. Piotrowski , Z. Plebaniak , H. Qureshi , E. Reali , M. H. Reno , M. Ricci , E. Ricci , A. Rivetti , A. Roy , F. Sarazin , V. Scherini , P. Schovánek , F. G. Schroeder , V. Scotti , C. Shay , A. Sotgiu , R. Sparvoli , B. Stillwell , I. Strhárský , J. Szabelski , Y. Takizawa , R. Torres , R. Triggiani , C. Trimarelli , C. Tussey , J. Tutt , M. Unger , T. Venters , M. Venugopal , P. von Ballmoos , L. Wanner , D. Washington , R. Webb , A. Weindl , L. Wiencke , S. Wissel , A. Yuan

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

Space missions offer unique opportunities for studying ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic rays and neutrinos by leveraging secondary emissions generated by extensive air showers (EAS) resulting from their interactions with the atmosphere or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-18 Tobias Heibges , Claire Guépin , Luke Kupari , Hannah Wistrand , Randy Lahm , Johannes Eser , Mary Hall Reno , Tonia M. Venters , Lawrence Wiencke

In 2016-2017, TUS, the world's first experiment for testing the possibility of registering ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by their fluorescent radiation in the night atmosphere of Earth was carried out. Since 2019, the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-06 Mikhail Zotov , Denis Sokolinskii

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

Mini-EUSO is a UV telescope that will look downwards to the Earth's atmosphere onboard the International Space Station. With the design of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detectors belonging to the JEM-EUSO program, it will…

Mini-EUSO is a compact telescope ($37 \times 37 \times 62$~cm$^3$) currently hosted on board the International Space Station. Mini-EUSO is devoted primarily to study Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR) above $10^{21}$~eV but also to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-01-10 G. Cambié , A. Belov , F. Capel , M. Casolino , A. Franceschi , P. Klimov , L. Marcelli , T. Napolitano , P. Picozza , L. W. Piotrowski , E. Reali , M. Ricci

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…

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…

EUSO-TA is a ground-based florescence detector built to validate the design of an ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detector to be operated in space. EUSO-TA detected the first air shower events with the technology developed within…

We describe the design and implementation of the University of Chicago Infrared Camera 2 (UCIRC2) built for monitoring cloud coverage during the EUSO-SPB2 flight (the second generation of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-09 Rebecca Diesing , Khadijat Durojaiye , Seamus Flannery , Kameron Mehling , Noah Friedlander , Alexa Bukowski , Emily Donovan , Stephan Meyer , Angela V. Olinto