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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

Here is presented the current state of the SPHERE-2 balloon-borne experiment. The detector is elevated up to 1 km above the snow surface and registers the reflected Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation from extensive air showers. This method has…

The Ultra-Fast Flash Observatory (UFFO) is a new space-based experiment to observe Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). GRBs are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe and occur randomly in any direction. Therefore the UFFO consists…

The SPHERE-2 balloon-borne detector designed for extensive air shower (EAS) observations using EAS optical Vavilov-Cherenkov radiation (``Cherenkov light''), reflected from the snow-covered surface of Lake Baikal is described. We briefly…

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The EUSO-TA ground-based fluorescence detector of the JEM-EUSO program, which operates at the Telescope Array (TA) site in Utah (USA), is being upgraded. In the previous data acquisition campaigns, it detected the first nine ultra-high…

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The exploration of planetary bodies in our Solar system and beyond relies on the processing and interpretation of large, spatio-temporally inconsistent, and heterogeneous datasets. Recent advances in machine learning (ML) provide…

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…

Euclid is a space telescope currently developed in the framework of the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Program. It addresses fundamental cosmological questions related to dark matter and dark energy. The lens system of one of the two…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-31 Christof Bodendorf , Norbert Geis , Frank Grupp , Jennifer Kaminski , Reinhard Katterloher , Ralf Bender

EUSO--TA is a ground-based telescope installed in 2013 in the Black Rock Mesa Telescope Array (BRM-TA) site, operating with 2.5$\mu$s time resolution to observe the night sky in the UV range. The optical system contains two 1m$^2$ Fresnel…

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

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory is an experiment to investigate the highest energy cosmic rays by recording the extensive air showers they create in the atmosphere. This will be done by recording video clips of the development of…

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Astronomical observations already produce vast amounts of data through a new generation of telescopes that cannot be analyzed manually. Next-generation telescopes such as the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope and the Square Kilometer Array…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Giuseppe Longo , Erzsébet Merényi , Peter Tino

Prospects for future supernova surveys are discussed, focusing on the ESA Euclid mission and the European Extremely Large Telescope(E-ELT), both expected to be in operation around the turn of the decade. Euclid is a 1.2m space survey…

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JEM-EUSO is a mission to study ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) by measuring the fluorescence light from giant air showers at the altitude of the International Space Station. In the tilted mode, JEM-EUSO will become very sensitive to…

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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

State-of-the-art space science missions increasingly rely on automation due to spacecraft complexity and the costs of human oversight. The high volume of data, including scientific and telemetry data, makes manual inspection challenging.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Pablo Gómez , Roland D. Vavrek , Guillermo Buenadicha , John Hoar , Sandor Kruk , Jan Reerink

The European Spallation Source linear proton accelerator will have a uniquely high power of 5 MW. The modifications and additions to the accelerator that are required to enable the generation of a uniquely intense neutrino Super Beam…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2019-04-03 Tord Ekelof , Marcos Dracos

ESPRESSO is the new high-resolution spectrograph of ESO's Very-Large Telescope (VLT). It was designed for ultra-high radial-velocity precision and extreme spectral fidelity with the aim of performing exoplanet research and fundamental…