The Data Processor System of EUSO Balloon: in flight performance.

Osteria, G.; Scotti, V.; Bayer, Jörg; Fornaro, C.

doi:10.22323/1.236.0659

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“…The HK is implemented around an off-the-shelf micro-controller board (Arduino Mega 2560), combined with 5 custom-made protocol interface boards to pre-process the various signals. The power is provided to the LV board and the HK board by two 28 V battery packs; the total power consumption of the electronics (DP and PDM) being 70 W. A detailed description of the DP and its performance is given in [19]. The optics The optical bench contains two Fresnel lenses made of 8 mm thick PMMA (UV transmitting polymethyl-methacrylate) with a front surface of 100×100 cm 2 each.…”

Section: The Euso-balloon Instrument -Overviewmentioning

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The EUSO-BALLOON mission

Ballmoos¹

2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)

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The EUSO-Balloon mission The JEM-EUSO Collaboration * EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder for JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory which is to be hosted on-board the International Space Station. As JEM-EUSO is designed to observe Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECR)-induced Extensive Air Showers (EAS) by detecting their ultraviolet light tracks "from above", EUSO-Balloon is a nadir-pointing UV telescope too. With its Fresnel Optics and Photo-Detector Module, the instrument monitors a surface area of ∼ 50 km 2 in a wavelength band of 290-430 nm, collecting series of images at a rate of 400'000 frames/sec. The objectives of the balloon demonstrator are threefold : a) perform a full end-to-end test of a JEM-EUSO prototype consisting of all the main subsystems of the space experiment, b) measure the effective terrestrial UV background, with a spatial and temporal resolution relevant for JEM-EUSO. c) detect tracks of ultraviolet light "from above" for the first time. The latter is a milestone in the development of UHECR science, paving the way for any future space-based UHECR observatory. On August 25, 2014, EUSO-Balloon was launched from Timmins Stratospheric Balloon Base (Ontario, Canada) by the balloon division of the French Space Agency CNES. From a float altitude of 38 km, the instrument operated during the entire astronomical night, observing UV-light from a variety of ground-covers, and simulated EAS, produced by flashers and a laser during a two-hour helicopter underflight. While a number of dedicated contributions in this volume focus on the results of the balloon flight and the performance of the EUSO-Balloon subsystems, this paper provides an overview of the instrument.

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Section: The Euso-balloon Instrument -Overviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

The EUSO-BALLOON mission

Ballmoos¹

2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)

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“…The HK is implemented around an off-the-shelf micro-controller board (Arduino Mega 2560), combined with 5 custom-made protocol interface boards to pre-process the various signals. The power is provided to the LV board and the HK board by two 28 V battery packs; the total power consumption of the electronics (DP and PDM is to much) being 70 W. A detailed description of the DP and its performance is given in [26].…”

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The EUSO-Balloon pathfinder

Adams¹,

Ahmad²,

Albert³

et al. 2015

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EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder for JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space\ud Observatory which is to be hosted on-board the International Space\ud Station. As JEM-EUSO is designed to observe Ultra-High Energy Cosmic\ud Rays (UHECR)-induced Extensive Air Showers (EAS) by detecting their\ud ultraviolet light tracks ``from above{''}, EUSO-Balloon is a\ud nadir-pointing UV telescope too. With its Fresnel Optics and\ud Photo-Detector Module, the instrument monitors a 50 km(2) ground surface\ud area in a wavelength band of 290-430 nm, collecting series of images at\ud a rate of 400,000 frames/sec. The objectives of the balloon demonstrator\ud are threefold: a) perform a full end-to-end test of a JEM-EUSO prototype\ud consisting of all the main subsystems of the space experiment, b)\ud measure the effective terrestrial UV background, with a spatial and\ud temporal resolution relevant for JEM-EUSO. c) detect tracks of\ud ultraviolet light from near space for the first time. The latter is a\ud milestone in the development of UHECR science, paving the way for any\ud future space-based UHECR observatory. On August 25, 2014, EUSO-Balloon\ud was launched from Timmins Stratospheric Balloon Base (Ontario, Canada)\ud by the balloon division of the French Space Agency CNES. From a float\ud altitude of 38 km, the instrument operated during the entire\ud astronomical night, observing UV-light from a variety of ground-covers\ud and from hundreds of simulated EASs, produced by flashers and a laser\ud during a two-hour helicopter under-flight

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“…The instrument has been designed to fly under a stratospheric balloon at ∼ 38 km altitude. The mission was funded by the French National Center for Space Studies, CNES, with contributions of the international JEM-EUSO collaboration for various subsystems (see [4,5] for details about the mission, the flight and the instrument performance).…”

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Search for significant background fluctuations in the EUSO-Balloon data

Jung¹,

Parizot²,

Suino³

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the 34th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2015)

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The EUSO-Balloon instrument recorded data during a stratospheric flight in August 2014, to measure the UV background during a moonless night, from an altitude of ∼ 38 km, with a field of view of ±5.5 • . In this paper, we report on the search for coherent fluctuations of this background over areas ranging from ∼ 1 km 2 up to the entire field of view, on timescales from a few µs to ∼ 100 µs. In addition to the expected laser track events induced by shootings from a helicopter flying in the field-of-view of EUSO-Balloon during part of the mission, three unidentified and significant events, probably related to human activity, are discussed.

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The Data Processor System of EUSO Balloon: in flight performance.

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Search for significant background fluctuations in the EUSO-Balloon data

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