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An end-to-end in-flight calibration of Mini-EUSO detector
- Miyamoto Hiroko,
- Battisti Matteo,
- Barghini Dario,
- Belov Alexander,
- Bertaina Mario,
- Bianciotto Marta,
- Bisconti Francesca,
- Blaksley Carl,
- Blin Sylvie,
- Bolmgren Karl,
- Cambiè Giorgio,
- Capel Francesca,
- Casolino Marco,
- Churilo Igor,
- Crisconio Marino,
- De La Taille Christophe,
- Ebisuzaki Toshikazu,
- Eser Johannes,
- Fenu Francesco,
- Filippatos George,
- Franceschi Massimo Alberto,
- Fuglesang Christer,
- Golzio Alessio,
- Gorodetzky Philippe,
- Kajino Fumiyoshi,
- Kasuga Hiroshi,
- Klimov Pavel,
- Kungel Viktoria,
- Kuznetsov Vladimir,
- Manfrin Massimiliano,
- Marcelli Laura,
- Mascetti Gabriele,
- Marszał Włodzimierz,
- Mignone Marco,
- Murashov Alexey,
- Napolitano Tommaso,
- Ohmori Hitoshi,
- Olinto Angela,
- Parizot Etienne,
- Picozza Piergiorgio,
- Piotrowski Lech Wiktor,
- Plebaniak Zbigniew,
- Prévôt Guillaume,
- Reali Enzo,
- Ricci Marco,
- Romoli Giulia,
- Sakaki Naoto,
- Sharakin Sergei,
- Shinozaki Kenji,
- Szabelski Jacek,
- Takizawa Yoshiyuki,
- Valentini Giovanni,
- Vrabel Michal,
- Wincke Lawrence,
- Zotov Mikhail
Affiliations
- Miyamoto Hiroko
- Gran Sasso Science Institute
- Battisti Matteo
- INFN Section of Turin
- Barghini Dario
- INFN Section of Turin
- Belov Alexander
- Faculty of Phyiscs, M.V.Lomonosov Moscow State University
- Bertaina Mario
- INFN Section of Turin
- Bianciotto Marta
- Department of Physics, University of Turin
- Bisconti Francesca
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Blaksley Carl
- RIKEN
- Blin Sylvie
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie
- Bolmgren Karl
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Cambiè Giorgio
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Capel Francesca
- Technical University of Munich
- Casolino Marco
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Churilo Igor
- S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
- Crisconio Marino
- ASI, Italian Space Agency
- De La Taille Christophe
- Omega, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3
- Ebisuzaki Toshikazu
- RIKEN
- Eser Johannes
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago
- Fenu Francesco
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Filippatos George
- Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
- Franceschi Massimo Alberto
- INFN National Laboratories of Frascati
- Fuglesang Christer
- KTH Royal Institute of Technology
- Golzio Alessio
- INFN Section of Turin
- Gorodetzky Philippe
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie
- Kajino Fumiyoshi
- Department of Physics, Konan University
- Kasuga Hiroshi
- RIKEN
- Klimov Pavel
- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.
- Kungel Viktoria
- Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
- Kuznetsov Vladimir
- S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia
- Manfrin Massimiliano
- INFN Section of Turin
- Marcelli Laura
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Mascetti Gabriele
- ASI, Italian Space Agency
- Marszał Włodzimierz
- National Centre for Nuclear Research
- Mignone Marco
- INFN Section of Turin
- Murashov Alexey
- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.
- Napolitano Tommaso
- INFN National Laboratories of Frascati
- Ohmori Hitoshi
- RIKEN
- Olinto Angela
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago
- Parizot Etienne
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie
- Picozza Piergiorgio
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Piotrowski Lech Wiktor
- Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw
- Plebaniak Zbigniew
- INFN Section of Turin
- Prévôt Guillaume
- Université Paris Cité, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie
- Reali Enzo
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Ricci Marco
- INFN National Laboratories of Frascati
- Romoli Giulia
- INFN Section of Rome Tor Vergata
- Sakaki Naoto
- RIKEN
- Sharakin Sergei
- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.
- Shinozaki Kenji
- National Centre for Nuclear Research
- Szabelski Jacek
- National Centre for Nuclear Research
- Takizawa Yoshiyuki
- RIKEN
- Valentini Giovanni
- ASI, Italian Space Agency
- Vrabel Michal
- National Centre for Nuclear Research
- Wincke Lawrence
- Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines
- Zotov Mikhail
- Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ.
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/202328306017
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 283
p. 06017
Abstract
Mini-EUSO is a wide Field-of-View (FoV, 44°) telescope currently in operation from a nadir-facing UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module on the International Space Station (ISS). It is the first detector of the JEM-EUSO program deployed on the ISS, launched in August 2019. The main goal of Mini-EUSO is to measure the UV emissions from the ground and atmosphere, using an orbital platform. Mini-EUSO is mainly sensitive in the 290–430 nm bandwidth. Light is focused by a system of two Fresnel lenses of 25 cm diameter each on the Photo-Detector-Module (PDM), which consists of an array of 36 Multi-Anode Photomultiplier Tubes (MAPMTs), arranged in blocks of 2 × 2 called Elementary Cells (ECs), for a total of 2304 pixels working in photon counting mode, in three different time resolutions of 2.5 µs (defined as 1 Gate Time Unit, GTU), 320 µs and 40.96 ms operating in parallel. In the longest time scale, the data is continuously acquired to monitor the UV emission of the Earth. It is best suited for the observation of ground sources and therefore has been used for the observational campaigns of the ground-based UV flasher in order to perform an end-to-end calibration of Mini-EUSO. In this contribution, the assembled UV flasher, the operation of the field campaign and the analysis of the obtained data are presented. The result is compared with the overall effi ciency computed from the expectations which takes into account the atmospheric attenuation and the parametrisation of different effects such as the optics effi ciency, the MAPMT detection effi ciency, BG3 filter transmittance and the transparency of the ISS window.
