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JEM-EUSO is an international collaboration for the development of space--based Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) detectors. The instrument consists of a wide Field Of View (FOV) camera for the detection of the UV light emitted by…

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Mini-EUSO is a space experiment selected to be installed inside the International Space Station. It has a compact telescope with a large field of view ($44 $\times$ 44$ sq. deg.) focusing light on an array of photo-multipliers tubes in…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-02 Sara Turriziani , Jonah Ekelund , Katsuhiko Tsuno , Marco Casolino , Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

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…

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

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-11-22 S. Abe , J. H. Adams , D. Allard , P. Alldredge , L. Anchordoqui , A. Anzalone , E. Arnone , B. Baret , D. Barghini , M. Battisti , J. Bayer , R. Bellotti , A. A. Belov , M. Bertaina , P. F. Bertone , M. Bianciotto , P. L. Biermann , F. Bisconti , C. Blaksley , S. Blin-Bondil , P. Bobik , K. Bolmgren , S. Briz , J. Burton , F. Cafagna , G. Cambié , D. Campana , F. Capel , R. Caruso , M. Casolino , C. Cassardo , A. Castellina , K. Černý , M. J. Christl , R. Colalillo , L. Conti , G. Cotto , H. J. Crawford , R. Cremonini , A. Creusot , A. Cummings , A. de Castro Gónzalez , C. de la Taille , L. del Peral , R. Diesing , P. Dinaucourt , A. Di Nola , A. Ebersoldt , T. Ebisuzaki , J. Eser , F. Fenu , S. Ferrarese , G. Filippatos , W. W. Finch , F. Flaminio , C. Fornaro , D. Fuehne , C. Fuglesang , M. Fukushima , D. Gardiol , G. K. Garipov , A. Golzio , P. Gorodetzky , F. Guarino , C. Guépin , A. Guzmán , A. Haungs , T. Heibges , J. Hernández-Carretero , F. Isgrò , E. G. Judd , F. Kajino , I. Kaneko , Y. Kawasaki , M. Kleifges , P. A. Klimov , I. Kreykenbohm , J. F. Krizmanic , V. Kungel , E. Kuznetsov , F. López Martínez , S. Mackovjak , D. Mandát , M. Manfrin , A. Marcelli , L. Marcelli , W. Marszał , J. N. Matthews , A. Menshikov , T. Mernik , M. Mese , S. S. Meyer , J. Mimouni , H. Miyamoto , Y. Mizumoto , A. Monaco , J. A Morales de los Ríos , S. Nagataki , J. M. Nachtman , D. Naumov , A. Neronov , T. Nonaka , T. Ogawa , S. Ogio , H. Ohmori , A. V. Olinto , Y. Onel , G. Osteria , A. Pagliaro , B. Panico , E. Parizot , I. H. Park , B. Pastircak , T. Paul , M. Pech , F. Perfetto , P. Picozza , L. W. Piotrowski , Z. Plebaniak , J. Posligua , R. Prevete , G. Prévôt , H. Prieto , M. Przybylak , M. Putis , E. Reali , P. Reardon , M. H. Reno , M. Ricci , M. Rodríguez Frías , G. Romoli , G. Sáez Cano , H. Sagawa , N. Sakaki , A. Santangelo , O. A. Saprykin , F. Sarazin , M. Sato , H. Schieler , P. Schovánek , V. Scotti , S. Selmane , S. A. Sharakin , K. Shinozaki , J. F. Soriano , J. Szabelski , N. Tajima , T. Tajima , Y. Takahashi , M. Takeda , Y. Takizawa , C. Tenzer , S. B. Thomas , L. G. Tkachev , T. Tomida , S. Toscano , M. Traïche , D. Trofimov , K. Tsuno , P. Vallania , L. Valore , T. M. Venters , C. Vigorito , P. von Ballmoos , M. Vrabel , S. Wada , J. Watts , A. Weindl , L. Wiencke , J. Wilms , D. Winn , H. Wistrand , I. V. Yashin , R. Young , M. Yu. Zotov

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

Mini-EUSO (Multiwavelength Imaging New Instrument for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a telescope observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band (290-430 nm) from the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station since…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-05 Giulia Romoli

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

The JEM-EUSO mission explores the origin of the extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs) above 100 EeV and explores the limits of the fundamental physics through the observations of their arrival directions and energies. It is designed to achieve…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Toshikazu Ebisuzaki

The JEM-EUSO program is focused on observations of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space. For this purpose, a series of detectors based on multi-anode photomultiplier tubes with a time resolution of the order of $\mu$s have been…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-19 Zbigniew Plebaniak , Marika Przybylak

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) offer a unique chance to study the universe at energies inaccessible by man-made accelerators. Observations by ground based observatories have clarified several characteristics of these particles, but…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-05 M. Casolino

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 EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) project is developing a new mission concept for the scientific research of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from space. The EUSO wide-field telescope will look down from space onto the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-12 Enrico Bozzo , Thomas Burch , Alessandra Ciapponi , Clemens Heese , Arno Hoogerwerf , Nicholas Lan , Andrii Neronov , Vincent Revol , Ross Stanley

The Mini-EUSO telescope is designed by the JEM-EUSO Collaboration to observe the UV emission of the Earth from the vantage point of the International Space Station (ISS) in low Earth orbit. The main goal of the mission is to map the Earth…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. Belov , M. Bertaina , F. Capel , F. Faust , F. Fenu , P. Klimov , M. Mignone , H. Miyamoto

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

Mini-EUSO is a telescope launched on board the International Space Station in 2019 and currently located in the Russian section of the station. Main scientific objectives of the mission are the search for nuclearites and Strange Quark…

Mini-EUSO is a detector observing the Earth in the ultraviolet band from the International Space Station through a nadir-facing window, transparent to the UV radiation, in the Russian Zvezda module. Mini-EUSO main detector consists in an…

K-EUSO (KLYPVE-EUSO) is a planned orbital mission aimed at studying ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by detecting fluorescence and Cherenkov light emitted by extensive air showers in the nocturnal atmosphere of Earth in the…

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

JEM-EUSO, on board of the Japanese Exploration Module of the International Space Station, is being proposed as the first space observatory devoted to UHECR. Its privileged position at 430 km above the Earth surface, combined with a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Gustavo Medina-Tanco , K. Asano , D. Cline , T. Ebisuzaki , S. Inoue , P. Lipari , E. Parizot , A. Santangelo , G. Sigl , Y. Takahashi , H. Takami , M. Teshima , T. J. Weiler

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