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The Extreme Universe Space Observatory-Super Pressure Balloon (EUSO-SPB1) is a pathfinder of the JEM-EUSO program, which aims to observe Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from near-space. It was launched from Wanaka (New Zealand) on…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2019-09-24 Silvia Monte , Carlo Vigorito , Mario Bertaina , Silvia Ferrarese , Kenji Shinozaki , Susana Briz , JEM-EUSO Collaboration

The Fluorescence Telescope is one of the two telescopes on board the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an ultra-long-duration balloon mission that aims at the detection of Ultra High…

The next generation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) and very-high energy neutrino observatories will address the challenge of the extremely low fluxes of these particles at the highest energies. EUSO-SPB2 (Extreme Universe Space…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-20 A. Cummings , J. Eser , G. Filippatos , A. V. Olinto , T. M. Venters , L. Wiencke

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2), in preparation, aims to make the first observations of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) from near space using optical techniques. EUSO-SPB2 will…

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

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

We present the status of the development of a Cherenkov telescope to be flown on a long-duration balloon flight, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory Super Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an approved NASA balloon mission that…

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 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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

The experimental search for ultra high energy cosmic messengers, from $E\sim 10^{19}$ eV to beyond $E\sim 10^{20}$ eV, at the very end of the known energy spectrum, constitutes an extraordinary opportunity to explore a largely unknown…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 Andrea Santangelo , Alessandro Petrolini

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

The JEM-EUSO mission aims to explore the origin of the extreme energy cosmic rays (EECRs) through the observation of air-shower fluorescence light from space. The superwide-field telescope looks down from the International Space Station…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-02 Andreas Haungs , 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

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