The observation of extensive air showers from an Earth-orbiting satellite

Pallavicini, M.; Pesce, R.; Petrolini, A.

doi:10.1016/j.astropartphys.2011.11.006

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“…The inclusion of UHECP physics in the ESA Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 program [17] provides a suitable framework for the study of future space missions. An introduction to the basic issues concerning the detection of UHECP with a space detector can be found in [18].…”

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Full simulation of space-based extensive air showers detectors with ESAF

Bérat

Bottai

Marco

et al. 2010

Astroparticle Physics

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Future detection of Extensive Air Showers (EAS) produced by Ultra High Energy Cosmic Particles by means of space based fluorescence telescopes will open a new window on the universe and allow cosmic ray and neutrino astronomy at a level that is virtually impossible for ground based detectors. In the context of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (EUSO) project, an end-to-end simulation of EAS observation with a spatial detector has been designed (EUSO Simulation and Analysis Framework, ESAF). This paper describes the detailed Monte-Carlo developed to simulate all the physical processes involved in the fluorescence detection technique, from the EAS development to the instrument response. Particular emphasis is given to modeling the light propagation in the atmosphere and the effect of clouds. The simulation is used to assess the performances of EAS spatial detection. Main results on energy threshold and resolution, direction resolution and Xmax determination are reported. Results are based on EUSO telescope design, but are also extended to larger and more sensitive detectors.

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Full simulation of space-based extensive air showers detectors with ESAF

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Bottai

Marco

et al. 2010

Astroparticle Physics

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“…The JEM-EUSO observational approach mainly relies on the fact that a substantial fraction of the UV fluorescence light generated by the EAS can reach a light-collecting device of several square meters located at several hundreds kilometers away from the EAS track (Pallavicini et al, 2012). Typically a few thousand photons reach the JEM-EUSO detector for a shower produced by a 10 20 eV particle.…”

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Performance and air-shower reconstruction techniques for the JEM-EUSO mission

Bertaina

Biktemerova

Bittermann

et al. 2014

Advances in Space Research

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as the first mission to explore the ultra-high energy universe from space, JEM-EUSO will monitor the Earth's atmosphere at night to record the UV (300-430 nm) tracks generated by the extensive air showers produced by ultra-high energy primary particles developing in the atmosphere. Studies of the expected aperture, the estimated exposure, as well as on the methods to infer arrival direction, energy, and X max of primary particles are presented.

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“…Since the pioneering work by Benson and Linsley, different aspects of registering UHECRs from space have been studied in much details, see, e.g., [6,7] and a whole number of projects have been suggested, among them AIR WATCH [8], OWL [9,10], EUSO and later JEM-EUSO [11] (see also these proceedings) and Super-E U S O [12] but none of them has been implemented yet. The only fully implemented orbital detector of UHECRs is TUS [13,14], which was developed in Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics of Moscow State University (SINP MSU) in cooperation with several Russian and foreign institutions following the original reflector type telescope scheme suggested by Benson and Linsley. Being scheduled for launching in late 2015 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome, TUS is not expected to make a breakthrough in UHECR physics because of its pretty modest technical parameters [15] but will serve as a pathfinder for the new class of UHECR experiments.…”

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