The Mini-EUSO telescope on board the ISS: in-flight operations and performances

Marcelli, L. (author): INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata

Battisti, M. (author): INFN, Sezione di Torino - Torino, Italy, Sezione di Torino; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Torino - Torino, Italy

Belov, A. (author): Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University - Moscow, Russia; Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. - Moscow, Russia

Bertaina, M. (author): INFN, Sezione di Torino - Torino, Italy, Sezione di Torino; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá di Torino - Torino, Italy

Cambiè, G. (author): INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy

Casolino, M. (author): INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy; RIKEN - Wako, Japan

Klimov, P. (author): Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State Univ. - Moscow, Russia

Parizot, E. (author): Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie - Paris, France, Astroparticule et Cosmologie

Picozza, P. (author): INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata; Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy

Piotrowski, L. W. (author): Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw - Warsaw, Poland

Prévôt, G. (author): Université de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie - Paris, France, Astroparticule et Cosmologie

Reali, E. (author): Dipartimento di Fisica, Universitá degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Roma, Italy

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IOP Publishing, 2022
2022
English.
In: Proceedings International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics, TIPP 2021. - : IOP Publishing.

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Abstract Subject headings

Mini-EUSO is a high sensitivity imaging telescope that observes the Earth from the ISS in the ultraviolet band (2904÷430 nm), through the UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module. The instrument, launched in 2019 as part of the ESA mission Beyond, has a field of view of 44°, a spatial resolution on the Earth surface of 6.3 km and a temporal resolution of 2.5 microseconds. The telescope detects UV emissions of cosmic, atmospheric and terrestrial origin on different time scales, from a few microseconds upwards. Mini-EUSO main detector optics is composed of two Fresnel lenses focusing light onto an array of 36 Hamamatsu multi-anode photomultiplier tubes, for a total of 2304 pixels. The telescope also contains: two ancillary cameras to complement measurements in the near infrared and visible ranges, an array of Silicon-PhotoMultipliers and UV sensors to manage night-day transitions. In this work we will describe the in-flight operations and performances of the various instruments in the first months after launch.

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