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Simulations studies for the Mini-EUSO detector
- Source :
- PoS, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Jul 2021, Berlin, Germany. pp.334, ⟨10.22323/1.395.0334⟩
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- arXiv, 2021.
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Abstract
- International audience; Mini-EUSO is a mission of the JEM-EUSO program flying onboard the International Space Station since August 2019. Since the first data acquisition in October 2019, more than 35 sessions have been performed for a total of 52 hours of observations. The detector has been observing Earth at night-time in the UV range and detected a wide variety of transient sources all of which have been modeled through Monte Carlo simulations. Mini-EUSO is also capable of detecting meteors and potentially space debris and we performed simulations for such events to estimatetheir impact on future missions for cosmic ray science from space. We show here examples of the simulation work done in this framework to analyze the Mini-EUSO data. The expected response of Mini-EUSO with respect to ultra high energy cosmic ray showers has been studied. The efficiency curve of Mini-EUSO as a function of primary energy has been estimated and the energy threshold for Cosmic Rays has been placed to be above $10^{21}$ eV. We compared the morphology of several transient events detected during the mission with cosmic ray simulations and excluded that they can be due to cosmic ray showers. To validate the energy threshold of the detector, asystem of ground based flashers is being used for end-to-end calibration purposes. We therefore implemented a parameterization of such flashers into the JEM-EUSO simulation framework and studied the response of the detector with respect to such sources.
- Subjects :
- Physics
Meteoroid
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Monte Carlo method
Detector
satellite
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
parametrization
FOS: Physical sciences
Cosmic ray
showers
calibration
Computational physics
International Space Station
Physics::Space Physics
Ultra-high-energy cosmic ray
cosmic radiation: UHE
spectrometer
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
numerical calculations: Monte Carlo
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Energy (signal processing)
Space debris
Subjects
Details
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PoS, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, 37th International Cosmic Ray Conference, Jul 2021, Berlin, Germany. pp.334, ⟨10.22323/1.395.0334⟩
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....dffd68ddfb1f9ee4b1c12e11df9c58dd
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2112.12150