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Publication Status: Published
Publication Type: Journal article
Publication year: 2015
Publisher: SPRINGER
Book Volume: 40
Pages Range: 281-299
Journal Issue: 1
DOI: 10.1007/s10686-015-9467-9
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 50 km(2) ground surface area 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 near space 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 from hundreds of simulated EASs, produced by flashers and a laser during a two-hour helicopter under-flight.
APA:
Adams, J.H., Ahmad, S., Albert, J.-N., Allard, D., Anchordoqui, L., Andreev, V.,... Marchi, A.Z. (2015). The EUSO-Balloon pathfinder. Experimental Astronomy, 40(1), 281-299. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10686-015-9467-9
MLA:
Adams, J. H., et al. "The EUSO-Balloon pathfinder." Experimental Astronomy 40.1 (2015): 281-299.
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