Mini-EUSO: a precursor mission to observe Atmosphere and Earth UV emission from the International Space Station

Ricci, M.

doi:10.22323/1.301.0440

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“…TurLab gave insights on the possibility to apply the JEM-EUSO observation principle to detect other type of phenomena such as ocean conditions, using dedicated triggering system. Recently, the TurLab facility is being used to test the trigger logic foreseen for Mini-EUSO [6]. The results of these tests are subject of a different publication [8].…”

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The EUSO@Turlab Project: Results from Phase II

Suino¹,

Miyamoto²,

Bertaina³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017)

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The TurLab facility is a laboratory, equipped with a 5 m diameter and 1 m deep rotating tank, located in the Physics Department of the University of Turin. Originally built mainly to study problems where system rotation plays a key role in the fluid behaviour such as in atmospheric and oceanic flows at different scales, in the past few years the TurLab facility has been used to perform experiments related to observation of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays from space using the fluorescence technique, as in the case of the JEM-EUSO mission, where the diffuse night brightness and artificial light sources can vary significantly in time and space inside the Field of View of the telescope. The description of the EUSO@TurLab project and its first results have been presented in the past. During the last two years many upgrades have been performed on the instrumentation mainly related to the read-out electronics: SPACIROC-1 (employed in EUSO-Balloon and EUSO-TA prototypes) and SPACIROC-3 (EUSO-SPB and Mini-EUSO) which allowed to test a fully equipped Elementary Cell of JEM-EUSO. This phase has been named Phase II. Moreover, the Focal Surface of EUSO-Balloon with the level 1 trigger logic implemented in the Photo-Detector Module has been tested at TurLab after the Canada flight. Finally, tests related to the possibility to employ a EUSO-like detector for other type of applications such as wave monitoring and imaging detector have been pursued. The tests and results obtained in EUSO@TurLab Project-Phase II are described.

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The EUSO@Turlab Project: Results from Phase II

Suino¹,

Miyamoto²,

Bertaina³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017)

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“…A Geant4-based [24] simulation of the instrument has been prepared in Off line , with raytracing at several incident angles depicted in Figure 4. Further details on Mini-EUSO are available in these proceedings [22].…”

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New simulation and reconstruction software for the EUSO pathfinders, with example applications

Paul¹,

Bertaina²,

Bisconti³

et al. 2017

Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017)

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“…Mini-EUSO will be devoted to study the UV light emission coming from Earth (1). Mini-EUSO is a small (25 × 35 × 60cm 3 ) light weight (∼ 30kg) compact telescope based on an optical system with two Fresnel lenses (diameter: 25 cm) and an UV filter.…”

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Ancillary detectors for the Mini-EUSO telescope: control software development and expected science

Turriziani¹,

Casolino²,

Ebisuzaki³

2017

Proceedings of 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2017)

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Mini-EUSO will be devoted to study the UV light emission coming from Earth. It consists of a compact telescope with a large field of view (44 × 44 sq. deg.) based on an optical system with two Fresnel lenses and an UV filter. The light is focused into an array of photo-multipliers tubes and the resulting signal is converted to digital, processed and stored via on-board electronics subsystems. To complement the observations in other wavelengths, some ancillary cameras are present: a near infrared camera, a visible camera and an array of SiPM. The additional cameras will be used to monitor the observation conditions, and to obtain complementary information on several scientific topics that will be exploited with the main telescope, such as the physics of atmosphere, meteors, and strange quark matter. Here we review the expected science and present the general outline of the control software developed to stream data from the cameras together with the main instrument, in order to grab images in an automated way.

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Mini-EUSO: a precursor mission to observe Atmosphere and Earth UV emission from the International Space Station

Cited by 12 publications

References 9 publications

The EUSO@Turlab Project: Results from Phase II

The EUSO@Turlab Project: Results from Phase II

New simulation and reconstruction software for the EUSO pathfinders, with example applications

Ancillary detectors for the Mini-EUSO telescope: control software development and expected science

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