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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…

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

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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In this thesis, an introduction to the Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) field is given, including air shower physics, UHECR astrophysics, and experimental techniques. The current questions in UHECR physics are mentioned, along with the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2014-06-24 Carl Blaksley

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…

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

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

EUSO-TA is a pathfinder experiment for the space based JEM-EUSO mission for the detection of ultra-high energy cosmic rays. EUSO-TA is an high-resolution fluorescence telescope installed in front of the Black Rock Mesa fluorescence…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-26 Francesca Bisconti

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 Mini-EUSO telescope is the first space-based detector of the JEM-EUSO program. It was launched for the International Space Station on August 22$^{nd}$, 2019 to observe from the ISS orbit ($\sim$420 km altitude) various phenomena…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-22 Matteo Battisti , Mario Bertaina , Enrico Arnone , Gaetano Sammartino , Giulia Pretto

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

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

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 complexity of modern cosmic ray observatories and the rich data sets they capture often require a sophisticated software framework to support the simulation of physical processes, detector response, as well as reconstruction and…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-24 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 ultra high energy cosmic neutrinos are powerful astrophysical probes for both astrophysical mechanisms of particle acceleration and fundamental interactions. They open a window into the very distant and high-energy Universe that is…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Galina Vankova , Stefan Mladenov , Marian Bogomilov , Roumen Tsenov , Mario Bertaina , Andrea Santangelo

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 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 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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-26 J. H. Adams , M. J. Christl , S. E. Csorna , F. Sarazin , L. R. Wiencke

We evaluate the exposure during nadir observations with JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, on-board the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station. Designed as a mission to explore the extreme energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-05-14 J. H. Adams , S. Ahmad , J. -N. Albert , D. Allard , M. Ambrosio , L. Anchordoqui , A. Anzalone , Y. Arai , C. Aramo , K. Asano , M. Ave , P. Barrillon , T. Batsch , J. Bayer , T. Belenguer , R. Bellotti , A. A. Berlind , M. Bertaina , P. L. Biermann , S. Biktemerova , C. Blaksley , J. Blecki , S. Blin-Bondil , J. Bluemer , P. Bobik , M. Bogomilov , M. Bonamente , M. S. Briggs , S. Briz , A. Bruno , F. Cafagna , D. Campana , J-N. Capdevielle , R. Caruso , M. Casolino , C. Cassardo , G. Castellini , O. Catalano , A. Cellino , M. Chikawa , M. J. Christl , V. Connaughton , J. F. Cortes , H. J. Crawford , R. Cremonini , S. Csorna , J. C. D'Olivo , S. Dagoret-Campagne , A. J. de Castro , C. De Donato , C. de la Taille , L. del Peral , A. Dell'Oro , M. P. De Pascale , M. Di Martino , G. Distratis , M. Dupieux , A. Ebersoldt , T. Ebisuzaki , R. Engel , S. Falk , K. Fang , F. Fenu , I. Fernandez-Gomez , S. Ferrarese , A. Franceschi , J. Fujimoto , P. Galeotti , G. Garipov , J. Geary , U. G. Giaccari , G. Giraudo , M. Gonchar , C. Gonzalez Alvarado , P. Gorodetzky , F. Guarino , A. Guzman , Y. Hachisu , B. Harlov , A. Haungs , J. Hernandez Carretero , K. Higashide , T. Iguchi , H. Ikeda , N. Inoue , S. Inoue , A. Insolia , F. Isgrio , Y. Itow , E. Joven , E. G. Judd , A. Jung , F. Kajino , T. Kajino , I. Kaneko , Y. Karadzhov , J. Karczmarczyk , K. Katahira , K. Kawai , Y. Kawasaki , B. Keilhauer , B. A. Khrenov , Jeong-Sook Kim , Soon-Wook Kim , Sug-Whan Kim , M. Kleifges , P. A. Klimov , S. H. Ko , D. Kolev , I. Kreykenbohm , K. Kudela , Y. Kurihara , E. Kuznetsov , G. La Rosa , J. Lee , J. Licandro , H. Lim , F. Lopez , M. C. Maccarone , K. Mannheim , L. Marcelli , A. Marini , G. Martin-Chassard , O. Martinez , G. Masciantonio , K. Mase , R. Matev , A. Maurissen , G. Medina-Tanco , T. Mernik , H. Miyamoto , Y. Miyazaki , Y. Mizumoto , G. Modestino , D. Monnier-Ragaigne , J. A. Morales de los Rios , B. Mot , T. Murakami , M. Nagano , M. Nagata , S. Nagataki , T. Nakamura , J. W. Nam , S. Nam , K. Nam , T. Napolitano , D. Naumov , A. Neronov , K. Nomoto , T. Ogawa , H. Ohmori , A. V. Olinto , P. Orleanski , G. Osteria , N. Pacheco , M. I. Panasyuk , E. Parizot , I. H. Park , B. Pastircak , T. Patzak , T. Paul , C. Pennypacker , T. Peter , P. Picozza , A. Pollini , H. Prieto , P. Reardon , M. Reina , M. Reyes , M. Ricci , I. Rodriguez , M. D. Rodriguez Frias , F. Ronga , H. Rothkaehl , G. Roudil , I. Rusinov , M. Rybczynski , M. D. Sabau , G. Saez Cano , A. Saito , N. Sakaki , M. Sakata , H. Salazar , S. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , L. Santiago Cruz , M. Sanz Palomino , O. Saprykin , F. Sarazin , H. Sato , M. Sato , T. Schanz , H. Schieler , V. Scotti , M. Scuderi , A. Segreto , S. Selmane , D. Semikoz , M. Serra , S. Sharakin , T. Shibata , H. M. Shimizu , K. Shinozaki , T. Shirahama , G. Siemieniec-Ozieb , H. H. Silva Lopez , J. Sledd , K. Slominska , A. Sobey , T. Sugiyama , D. Supanitsky , M. Suzuki , B. Szabelska , J. Szabelski , F. Tajima , N. Tajima , T. Tajima , Y. Takahashi , H. Takami , M. Takeda , Y. Takizawa , C. Tenzer , O. Tibolla , L. Tkachev , T. Tomida , N. Tone , F. Trillaud , R. Tsenov , K. Tsuno , T. Tymieniecka , Y. Uchihori , O. Vaduvescu , J. F. Valdes-Galicia , P. Vallania , L. Valore , G. Vankova , C. Vigorito , L. Villasenor , P. von Ballmoos , S. Wada , J. Watanabe , S. Watanabe , J. Watts , M. Weber , T. J. Weiler , T. Wibig , L. Wiencke , M. Wille , J. Wilms , Z. Wlodarczyk , T. Yamamoto , Y. Yamamoto , J. Yang , H. Yano , I. V. Yashin , D. Yonetoku , K. Yoshida , S. Yoshida , R. Young , A. Zamora , A. Zuccaro Marchi