EUSO-BALLOON has been conceived as a pathfinder for JEM-EUSO, a mission concept for a space-borne wide-field telescope monitoring the Earth's nighttime atmosphere with the objective of recording the ultraviolet light from tracks initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Through a series of stratospheric balloon flights performed by the French Space Agency CNES, EUSO-BALLOON will serve as a test-bench for the key technologies of JEM-EUSO. EUSO-BALLOON shall perform an end-to-end test of all subsystems and components, and prove the global detection chain while improving our knowledge of the atmospheric and terrestrial ultraviolet background. The balloon-instrument also has the potential to detect for the first time UV-light generated by atmospheric air-shower from above, marking a milestone in the development of UHECR science, and paving the way for any future large scale, space-based ultra-high energy cosmic ray observatory. © 2013 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
A balloon-borne prototype for demonstrating the concept of JEM-EUSO / Von Ballmoos, P., Santangelo, A., Adams, J.H., Barrillon, P., Bayer, J., Bertaina, M., Cafagna, F., Casolino, M., Dagoret, S., Danto, P., Distratis, G., Dupieux, M., Ebersoldt, A., Ebisuzaki, T., Evrard, J., Gorodetzky, P., Haungs, A., Jung, A., Kawasaki, Y., Medina-Tanco, G., et al.. - In: ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH. - ISSN 0273-1177. - 53:10(2014), pp. 1544-1550. [10.1016/j.asr.2013.11.049]
A balloon-borne prototype for demonstrating the concept of JEM-EUSO
Scotti, V.;
2014
Abstract
EUSO-BALLOON has been conceived as a pathfinder for JEM-EUSO, a mission concept for a space-borne wide-field telescope monitoring the Earth's nighttime atmosphere with the objective of recording the ultraviolet light from tracks initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. Through a series of stratospheric balloon flights performed by the French Space Agency CNES, EUSO-BALLOON will serve as a test-bench for the key technologies of JEM-EUSO. EUSO-BALLOON shall perform an end-to-end test of all subsystems and components, and prove the global detection chain while improving our knowledge of the atmospheric and terrestrial ultraviolet background. The balloon-instrument also has the potential to detect for the first time UV-light generated by atmospheric air-shower from above, marking a milestone in the development of UHECR science, and paving the way for any future large scale, space-based ultra-high energy cosmic ray observatory. © 2013 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
