The EUSO mission to study UHECR from space: Status and perspectives

Scotti, V. and Osteria, G. (2018) The EUSO mission to study UHECR from space: Status and perspectives. Il nuovo cimento C, 41 (1-2). pp. 1-2. ISSN 1826-9885

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Abstract

The EUSO Collaboration has been studying a detector to be installed on the International Space Station which will observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) from space for the first time. The observation of UHECR from space offers several advantages such as large field of view, uniform observation of both celestial hemispheres, uniform detector response. For these reasons, spacebased observatories are complementary to the ground-based detectors. The EUSO Collaboration already built two pathfinders to test high-performance electronics and optical systems to meet the science requirements and the constraints (mass, power, hardness, ...) of space-borne detectors. Second-generation pathfinders, EUSO-SPB and Mini-EUSO, are currently under development. EUSO-SPB is a NASA Super Pressure Balloon payload scheduled to fly from New Zealand in Spring 2017 for a flight duration which may reach 100 days. The main scientific objective is the first observation and measurements of UHECR generated air showers by looking down from near space with a fluorescence detector. Mini-EUSO telescope (a joint ASIRoscosmos mission) will be placed on the Russian Module of the International Space Station in 2019. Its science objectives are the study of UV emission of natural, astronomical and artificial origin and of atmospheric phenomena. In this contribution, we will also report on the status and perspectives of the future EUSO mission.

Item Type: Article
Subjects: 500 Scienze naturali e Matematica > 530 Fisica
Depositing User: Marina Spanti
Date Deposited: 17 Nov 2020 14:37
Last Modified: 17 Nov 2020 14:37
URI: http://eprints.bice.rm.cnr.it/id/eprint/20147

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