Mini-EUSO flight software and operations on ISS

Capel, Francesca; Fuglesang, C.; Casolino, M.; Piotrowski, Lech

doi:10.22323/1.301.0454

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“…The 30-kg fluorescence detector, Mini-EUSO, is depicted in Fig. 1a and needs 30 W to operate [16]. The camera consists of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (MAPMT [17]).…”

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UV Laser System Test of Mini-EUSO

Kungel¹,

Bertaina²,

Bisconti³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019)

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Mini-EUSO (Extreme Universe Space Observatory) is a small-scale prototype cosmic-ray detector that will measure Earth's UV emission and other atmospheric phenomena from space. It will be placed in the International Space Station (ISS) behind a UV-transparent window looking to the nadir. The launch is planned this year (2019). Consisting of a multi-anode photomultiplier (MAPMT) camera and a 25 cm diameter Fresnel lens system, Mini-EUSO has a 44 • field of view (FoV), a 6.5 km 2 spatial resolution on the ground and a 2.5 µs temporal resolution. In principle, Mini-EUSO will be sensitive to extensive air shower (EAS) from cosmic-rays with energies above 10 21 eV. A mobile, steerable UV laser system will be used to test the expected energy threshold and performance of Mini-EUSO. The laser system will be driven to remote locations in the Western US and aimed across the field of view of Mini-EUSO when the ISS passes overhead during dark nights. It will emit pulsed 355 nm UV laser light to produce a short speed-of-light track in the detector. The brightness of this track will be similar to the track from an EAS resulting from a cosmic-ray of up to 10 21 eV. The laser energy is selectable with a maximum of around 90 mJ per pulse. The energy calibration factor is stable within 5 %. The characteristics of the laser system and Mini-EUSO have been implemented inside the JEM-EUSO OffLine software framework, and laser simulation studies are ongoing to determine the best way to perform a field measurement.

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“…The 30-kg fluorescence detector, Mini-EUSO, is depicted in Fig. 1a and needs 30 W to operate [16]. The camera consists of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes (MAPMT [17]).…”

Section: Mini-eusomentioning

confidence: 99%

UV Laser System Test of Mini-EUSO

Kungel¹,

Bertaina²,

Bisconti³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference — PoS(ICRC2019)

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“…Observations are supposed to continue with Russian cosmonauts for several years. The observations will be performed on µs to seconds scales both in triggered modes (separately for fast and slow events) [10] and a "continuous mode" consisting of data taken in regular intervals [4]. Through UV Earth observation, Mini-EUSO will allow to study a diverse range of scientific phenomena including atmospheric physics events, strange quark matter, bioluminescence and UHE-CRs.…”

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confidence: 99%