An evaluation of the exposure in nadir observation of the JEM-EUSO mission

Adams JH, Ahmad S, Albert JN, Allard D, Ambrosio M, Anchordoqui L, Anzalone A, Arai Y, Aramo C, Asano K, Ave M, Barrillon P, Batsch T, Bayer J, Belenguer T, Bellotti R, Berlind AA, Bertaina ME, Biermann PL, Biktemerova S, Blaksley C, Biccki J, Blin-Bondil S, Bluemer J, Bobik P, Bogomilov M, Bonamente M, Briggs MS, Briz S, Bruno A, Cafagna F, Campana D, Capdevielle JN, Caruso R, Casolino M, Cassardo C, Castellini G, Catalano O, Cellino A, Chikawa M, Christi MJ, Connaughton V, Cortes JF, Crawford HJ, Cremonini R, Csorna S, D'Olivo JC, Dagoret-Campagne S, De Castro AJ, De Donato C, De La Taille C, Del Peral L, Dell'Oro A, De Pascale MP, Di Martino M, Distratis G, Dupieux M, Ebersoldt A, Ebisuzaki T, Engel R, Falk S, Fang K, Fenu F, Fernandez-Gomez I, Ferrarese S, Franceschi A, Fujimoto J, Galeotti P, Garipov G, Geary J, Giaccari UG, Giraudo G, Gonchar M, Gonzalez Alvarado C, Gorodetzky P, Guarino F, Guzman A, Hachisu Y, Harlov B, Haungs A, Hernandez Carretero J, Higashide K, Iguchi T, Ikeda H, Inoue N, Inoue S, Insolia A, Isgro F, Itow Y, Joven E, Judd EG, Jung A, Kajino F, Kajino T, Kaneko I, Karadzhov Y, Karczmarczyk J, Katahira K, Kawai K, Kawasaki Y, Keilhauer B, Khrenov BA, Kim JS, Kim SW, Kim SW, Kleifges M, Klimov PA, Ko SH, Kolev D, Kreykenbohm I, Kudela K, Kurihara Y, Kuznetsov E, La Rosa G, Lee J, Licandro J, Lim H, Lopez F, Maccarone MC, Mannheim K, Marcelli L, Marini A, Martin-Chassard G, Martinez O, Masciantonio G, Mase K, Matev R, Maurissen A, Medina-Tanco G, Mernik T, Miyamoto H, Miyazaki Y, Mizumoto Y, Modestino G, Monnier-Ragaigne D, Morales De Los Rios JA, Mot B, Murakami T, Nagano M, Nagata M, Nagataki S, Nakamura T, Nam JW, Nam S, Nam K, Napolitano T, Naumov DV, Neronov A, Nomoto K, Ogawa T, Ohmori H, Olinto AV, Orleanski P, Osteria G, Pacheco N, Panasyuk MI, Parizot E, Park IH, Pastircak B, Patzak T, Paul T, Pennypacker C, Peter T, Picozza P, Pollini A, Prieto H, Reardon P, Reinabi M, Reyes M, Ricci M, Rodriguez I, Rodriguez Frias MD, Ronga F, Rothkaehl H, Roudil G, Rusinov I, Rybczynski M, Sabau MD, Saez Cano G, Saito A, Sakaki N, Sakata M, Salazar H, Sanchez S, Santangelo A, Santiago Cruz L, Sanz Palomino M, Saprykin O, Sarazin F, Sato H, Sato M, Schanz T, Schieler H, Scotti V, Scuderi M, Segreto A, Selmane S, Semikoz D, Serra M, Sharakin S, Shibata T, Shimizu HM, Shinozaki K, Shirahama T, Siemieniec-Ozigbio G, Silva Lopez HH, Sledd J, Slomiriska K, Sobey A, Sugiyama T, Supanitsky D, Suzuki M, Szabelska B, Szabelski J, Tajima F, Tajima N, Tajima T, Takahashi Y, Takami H, Takeda M, Takizawa Y, Tenzer C, Tibolla O, Tkachev L, Tomida T, Tone N, Trillaud F, Tsenov R, Tsuno K, Tymieniecka T, Uchihori Y, Vaduvescu O, Valdes-Galicia JF, Vallania P, Valore L, Vankova G, Vigorito C, Villasenor L, Von Ballmoos P, Wada S, Watanabe J, Watanabe S, Watts J, Weber M, Weiler TJ, Wibig T, Wiencke L, Wille M, Wilms J, Wlodarczyk Z, Yamamoto T, Yamamoto Y, Yang J, Yano H, Yashin IV, Yonetoku D, Yoshida K, Yoshida S, Young R, Zamora A, Marchi AZ (2013)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article

Publication year: 2013

Journal

Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV

Book Volume: 44

Pages Range: 76-90

DOI: 10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.008

Abstract

We evaluate the exposure during nadir observations with JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, on-board the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station. Designed as a mission to explore the extreme energy Universe from space, JEM-EUSO will monitor the Earth's nighttime atmosphere to record the ultraviolet light from tracks generated by extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In the present work, we discuss the particularities of space-based observation and we compute the annual exposure in nadir observation. The results are based on studies of the expected trigger aperture and observational duty cycle, as well as, on the investigations of the effects of clouds and different types of background light. We show that the annual exposure is about one order of magnitude higher than those of the presently operating ground-based observatories. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

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Adams, J.H., Ahmad, S., Albert, J.-N., Allard, D., Ambrosio, M., Anchordoqui, L.,... Marchi, A.Z. (2013). An evaluation of the exposure in nadir observation of the JEM-EUSO mission. Astroparticle Physics, 44, 76-90. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.astropartphys.2013.01.008

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Adams, J. H., et al. "An evaluation of the exposure in nadir observation of the JEM-EUSO mission." Astroparticle Physics 44 (2013): 76-90.

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