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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 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 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

Very-high-energy neutrinos can be observed by detecting air shower signals. Detection of transient target of opportunity (ToO) neutrino sources is part of a broader multimessenger program. The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-24 J. A. Posligua , T. Heibges , H. Wistrand , C. Guépin , M. H. Reno , T. Venters

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

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

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…

EUSO-SPB2 is a second generation Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) on a Super-Pressure Balloon (SPB). This document describes the physics capabilities, the proposed technical design of the instruments, and the simulation and…

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

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

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

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 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

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 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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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