EUSO-SPB1 Mission and Science
Abstract
The Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon 1 (EUSO-SPB1) was launched in 2017 April from Wanaka, New Zealand. The plan of this mission of opportunity on a NASA super pressure balloon test flight was to circle the southern hemisphere. The primary scientific goal was to make the first observations of ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray extensive air showers (EASs) by looking down on the atmosphere with an ultraviolet (UV) fluorescence telescope from suborbital altitude (33~km). After 12~days and 4~hours aloft, the flight was terminated prematurely in the Pacific Ocean. Before the flight, the instrument was tested extensively in the West Desert of Utah, USA, with UV point sources and lasers. The test results indicated that the instrument had sensitivity to EASs of approximately 3 EeV. Simulations of the telescope system, telescope on time, and realized flight trajectory predicted an observation of about 1 event assuming clear sky conditions. The effects of high clouds were estimated to reduce this value by approximately a factor of 2. A manual search and a machine-learning-based search did not find any EAS signals in these data. Here we review the EUSO-SPB1 instrument and flight and the EAS search.
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@article{arxiv.2401.06525,
title = {EUSO-SPB1 Mission and Science},
author = {EUSO Collaboration and G. Abdellaoui and S. Abe and J. H. Adams. and D. Allard and G. Alonso and L. Anchordoqui and A. Anzalone and E. Arnone and K. Asano and R. Attallah and H. Attoui and M. Ave Pernas and R. Bachmann and S. Bacholle and M. Bagheri and M. Bakiri and J. Baláz and D. Barghini and S. Bartocci and M. Battisti and J. Bayer and B. Beldjilali and T. Belenguer and N. Belkhalfa and R. Bellotti and A. A. Belov and K. Benmessai and M. Bertaina and P. F. Bertone and P. L. Biermann and F. Bisconti and C. Blaksley and N. Blanc and S. Blin-Bondil and P. Bobik and M. Bogomilov and K. Bolmgren and E. Bozzo and S. Briz and A. Bruno and K. S. Caballero and F. Cafagna and G. Cambié and D. Campana and J. N. Capdevielle and F. Capel and A. Caramete and L. Caramete and R. Caruso and M. Casolino and C. Cassardo and A. Castellina and O. Catalano and A. Cellino and K. Černý and M. Chikawa and G. Chiritoi and M. J. Christl and R. Colalillo and L. Conti and G. Cotto and H. J. Crawford and R. Cremonini and A. Creusot and A. Cummings and A. de Castro Gónzalez and C. de la Taille and L. del Peral and J. Desiato and A. Diaz Damian and R. Diesing and P. Dinaucourt and A. Djakonow and T. Djemil and A. Ebersoldt and T. Ebisuzaki and J. Eser and F. Fenu and S. Fernández-González and S. Ferrarese and G. Filippatos and W. Finch and C. Fornaro and M. Fouka and A. Franceschi and S. Franchini and C. Fuglesang and T. Fujii and M. Fukushima and P. Galeotti and E. García-Ortega and D. Gardiol and G. K. Garipov and E. Gascón and E. Gazda and J. Genci and A. Golzio and P. Gorodetzky and R. Gregg and A. Green and F. Guarino and C. Guépin and A. Guzmán and Y. Hachisu and A. Haungs and T. Heigbes and J. Hernández Carretero and L. Hulett and D. Ikeda and N. Inoue and S. Inoue and F. Isgrò and Y. Itow and T. Jammer and S. Jeong and J. Jochum and E. Joven and E. G. Judd and A. Jung and F. Kajino and T. Kajino and S. Kalli and I. Kaneko and M. Kasztelan and K. Katahira and K. Kawai and Y. Kawasaki and A. Kedadra and H. Khales and B. A. Khrenov and Jeong-Sook Kim and Soon-Wook Kim and M. Kleifges and P. A. Klimov and I. Kreykenbohm and J. F. Krizmanic and K. Królik and V. Kungel and Y. Kurihara and A. Kusenko and E. Kuznetsov and H. Lahmar and F. Lakhdari and J. Licandro and L. López Campano and F. López Martínez and S. Mackovjak and M. Mahdi and D. Mandát and M. Manfrin and L. Marcelli and J. L. Marcos and W. Marszał and Y. Martín and O. Martinez and K. Mase and M. Mastafa and J. N. Matthews and N. Mebarki and G. Medina-Tanco and A. Menshikov and A. Merino and M. Mese and J. Meseguer and S. S. Meyer and J. Mimouni and H. Miyamoto and Y. Mizumoto and A. Monaco and J. A. Morales de los Ríos and J. M. Nachtman and S. Nagataki and S. Naitamor and T. Napolitano and A. Neronov and K. Nomoto and T. Nonaka and T. Ogawa and S. Ogio and H. Ohmori and A. V. Olinto and Y. Onel and G. Osteria and A. N. Otte and A. Pagliaro and W. Painter and M. I. Panasyuk and B. Panico and E. Parizot and I. H. Park and B. Pastircak and T. Paul and M. Pech and I. Pérez-Grande and F. Perfetto and T. Peter and P. Picozza and S. Pindado and L. W. Piotrowski and S. Piraino and Z. Plebaniak and A. Pollini and E. M. Popescu and R. Prevete and G. Prévôt and H. Prieto and M. Przybylak and G. Puehlhofer and M. Putis and P. Reardon and M. H. Reno and M. Reyes and M. Ricci and M. D. Rodríguez Frías and O. F. Romero Matamala and F. Ronga and M. D. Sabau and G. Saccá and H. Sagawa and Z. Sahnoune and A. Saito and N. Sakaki and H. Salazar and J. L. Sánchez and J. C. Sanchez Balanzar and A. Santangelo and A. Sanz-Andrés and O. A. Saprykin and F. Sarazin and M. Sato and A. Scagliola and T. Schanz and H. Schieler and P. Schovánek and V. Scotti and M. Serra and S. A. Sharakin and H. M. Shimizu and K. Shinozaki and J. F. Soriano and A. Sotgiu and I. Stan and I. Strharský and N. Sugiyama and D. Supanitsky and M. Suzuki and J. Szabelski and N. Tajima and T. Tajima and Y. Takahashi and M. Takeda and Y. Takizawa and M. C. Talai and Y. Tameda and C. Tenzer and S. B. Thomas and O. Tibolla and L. G. Tkachev and T. Tomida and N. Tone and S. Toscano and M. Traïche and Y. Tsunesada and K. Tsuno and S. Turriziani and Y. Uchihori and J. F. Valdés-Galicia and P. Vallania and L. Valore and G. Vankova-Kirilova and T. M. Venters and C. Vigorito and L. Villaseñor and B. Vlcek and P. von Ballmoos and M. Vrabel and S. Wada and J. Watanabe and J. Watts. and R. Weigand Muñoz and A. Weindl and L. Wiencke and M. Wille and J. Wilms and T. Yamamoto and J. Yang and H. Yano and I. V. Yashin and D. Yonetoku and S. Yoshida and R. Young and I. S. Zgura and M. Yu. Zotov and A. Zuccaro Marchi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2401.06525},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
18 pages, 19 figures