Speaker
Johannes Eser
(Colorado School of Mines)
Description
EUSO-Balloon is a prototype detector of the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). EUSO-Balloon was flown successfully as a balloon payload from the Timmins Stratospheric Balloon Launch Facility in Ontario, Canada on 2014 August 24-25 at an altitude of 38 km. To simulate the optical signatures of UV fluorescence photons emitted from cosmic ray air showers generated in the atmosphere, a pulsed UV laser and two UV flashers (LED and Xe). These sources were fired in the instrument field of view for about 2 hours from a helicopter that circled at an altitude of 3 km under the balloon. UV signals were effectively detected, including 270 laser track events. We describe the helicopter laser system and the geometric reconstruction of the laser events that were generated by this system. We report here on the reconstruction of the laser events starting from the information contained in the observed tracks. We note that this work represents the first observation and measurement of aircraft based laser tracks by an optical fluorescence detector flown at near space altitudes.
| Registration number following "ICRC2015-I/" | 659 |
|---|---|
| Collaboration | JEM-EUSO |
Primary author
Johannes Eser
(Colorado School of Mines)
Co-authors
Aera JUNG
(Université Paris Diderot-Paris 7)
Beatrice Panico
(INFN)
Camille Catalano
(IRAP)
Camille Moretto
(Colorado School of Mines)
Camille Moretto
Claudio Fornaro
(UTIU, Dipartimento di Ingegneria, Rome)
Donatella Campana
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Napoli)
Evgeny Kuznetsov
(University Alabama Huntsville)
Fausto Guarino
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Napoli & Universita’ di Napoli Federico II - Dipartimento di Fisica)
Francesco Cafagna
(Universita e INFN (IT))
Francesco Perfetto
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Napoli & Universita’ di Napoli Federico II - Dipartimento di Fisica)
Giuseppe Osteria
(INFN)
Gregorio Suino
(Univ. & INFN Torino)
Guillaume Prevot
(APC, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Obs de Paris, Sorbo nne Paris Cit ́ e)
Jim Adams
(Univ. of Alabama in Huntsville)
Julio Arturo Rabanal Reina
(LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)
Jurgen Sawatzki
(University Alabama Huntsville)
Lawrence Wiencke
(Colorado School of Mines)
Mario Bertaina
(Univ. & INFN Torino)
Mark Christl
(NASA, MSFC)
Matthew Rodencal
(University Alabama Huntsville)
Mourad Fouka
(Astrophysics Department, Research Centre on Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics)
Peter von Ballmoos
(IRAP)
Pierre Andreas Barrillon
(Universite de Paris-Sud 11 (FR))
Reda Attallah
(University of Annaba, B. P. 12, Annaba 23000, Algeria)
Simon Bacholle
(APC- Paris Diderot university)
Sylvie Dagoret-Campagne
(LAL/IN2P3/CNRS)
Valentina Scotti
(Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Napoli & Universita’ di Napoli Federico II - Dipartimento di Fisica)
William Painter
(Colorado School of Mines)
Zouleikha Sahnoun
(Dep. Astronomy, Centre Res. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Geophysics)
