A study on UV emission from clouds with Mini-EUSO

Golzio, Alessio; Battisti, Matteo; Bertaina, M.; Bolmgren, Karl; Cambiè, G.; Casolino, M.; Cassardo, Claudio; Cremonini, R.; Ferrarese, S.; Fuglesang, C.; Manfrin, M.; Marcelli, L.; Piotrowski, L. W.; Shinozaki, K.

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“…Being a multi-purpose instrument with a huge field of view, unique sensitivity and high temporal resolution, K-EUSO will be able to make interesting contributions to atmospheric sciences, especially in regard to transient luminous events, to meteor studies and to the search of hypothetical nuclearites, as was demonstrated by comprehensive simulations performed during the development of the JEM-EUSO telescope [41,69] and confirmed later with observations of TUS [21,22,24] and Mini-EUSO [26,70,71].…”

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Status of the K-EUSO Orbital Detector of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

Климов¹,

Battisti²,

Белов³

et al. 2022

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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 ultraviolet (UV) range. The observatory is being developed within the JEM-EUSO collaboration and is planned to be deployed on the International Space Station after 2025 and operated for at least two years. The telescope, consisting of ∼105 independent pixels, will allow a spatial resolution of ∼0.6 km on the ground, and, from a 400 km altitude, it will achieve a large and full sky exposure to sample the highest energy range of the UHECR spectrum. We provide a comprehensive review of the current status of the development of the K-EUSO experiment, paying special attention to its hardware parts and expected performance. We demonstrate how results of the K-EUSO mission can complement the achievements of the existing ground-based experiments and push forward the intriguing studies of ultra-high energy cosmic rays, as well as bring new knowledge about other phenomena manifesting themselves in the atmosphere in the UV range.

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Status of the K-EUSO Orbital Detector of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

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Белов³

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“…Detecting clouds in the FOV of the telescopes is challenging. Towards this goal, Mini-EUSO presented a study to measure the UV emission from clouds [88], while Auger discussed their use of satellite data for atmospheric monitoring; both for clouds detection and aerosols optical depth estimation [89]…”

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Cosmic Ray Indirect Rapporteur Report (37th ICRC )

Abu‐Zayyad¹

2021

Proceedings of 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2021)

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This report summarizes the physics results presented as part of the cosmic-ray indirect (CRI) session of the 37 th ICRC conference. Updated measurements on cosmic-ray energy spectrum, mass composition, and arrival direction distributions were presented by several collaborations, spanning the energy range of a few TeV up to the highest observed energies. We select some of the results which were highlighted by the respective discussion leaders or which presented new results at this conference. Results on atmospheric phenomena, including TGFs and thunderstorms are also presented. We see a few interesting trends in the presented data. Among these are, the increased use of IACT's to study cosmic-rays among experiments primarily intended for gamma-ray measurements. Another, is the continued development of radio detection of air showers. Multi-component detectors are becoming the preferred detection mode, as the knowledge of how to integrate the different information about an air shower collected by the different detector components improves. The main physics questions about the origins of cosmic rays, both galactic and extra-galactic, remain open. Increased statistics and improved analyses allow for refining and better constraining theoretical models, but no definitive answers can be claimed thus far. Looking forward, the field is moving at a rapid pace; Several detectors upgrades are underway, data is continually coming in and analyzed, old data being made public for a wider audience and a new generation of scientists to examine, with new tools and approaches that will hopefully result in new insights to help solve the open questions on cosmic-rays.

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