Mini-EUSO engineering model: tests in open-sky condition
Mini-EUSO engineering model: tests in open-sky condition
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Mini-EUSO工程模型：露天条件下的测试
DOI：
10.22323/1.358.0198
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发表时间：
2019
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通讯作者：
S. Turriziani
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F. Bisconti;D. Barghini;M. Battisti;A. Belov;M. Bertaina;S. Blin;F. Cafagna;G. Cambié;F. Capel;M. Casolino;A. Cellino;I. Churilo;G. Cotto;A. Djakonow;T. Ebisuzaki;F. Fausti;F. Fenu;C. Fornaro;A. Franceschi;C. Fuglesang;D. Gardiol;P. Gorodetzky;F. Kajino;P. Klimov;L. Marcelli;W. Marszał;M. Mignone;H. Miyamoto;A. Murashov;T. Napolitano;G. Osteria;M. Panasyuk;É. Parizot;A. Poroshin;P. Picozza;L. Piotrowski;Z. Plebaniak;G. Pr'evot;M. Przybylak;E. Reali;M. Ricci;N. Sakaki;K. Shinozaki;G. Suino;J. Szabelski;Y. Takizawa;M. Traiche;S. Turriziani
Mini-EUSO是一个紫外线望远镜，将在国际空间站上向下观察地球大气层。通过设计属于JEM-EUSO方案的超高能宇宙射线荧光探测器，它将通过观测瞬变发光事件、精灵和闪电等大气现象以及来自地球的流星和生物发光，绘制第一幅地球紫外线图。来自地面的激光发射的漫射光，模拟了氮分子在大范围空气簇射穿过大气层时发出的荧光，可以用来验证这种探测器观测超高能宇宙射线的能力。为了验证为Mini-EUSO开发的电子设备和触发算法，建造了一个缩小版的望远镜，其焦面为原始焦面的1：9，透镜直径为2.5厘米。对Mini-EUSO工程模型进行了实验室试验和露天试验。在本文中，我们报告的观测结果的夜空，其中包括检测的恒星，流星，行星和火箭的身体反射太阳光。有趣的结果，观察城市灯光也报告。
Mini-EUSO is a UV telescope that will look downwards to the Earth’s atmosphere onboard the International Space Station. With the design of the ultra-high energy cosmic ray fluorescence detectors belonging to the JEM-EUSO program, it will make the first UV map of the Earth by observing atmospheric phenomena such as transient luminous events, sprites and lightning, as well as meteors and bioluminescence from earth. Diffused light from laser shots from the ground, which mimic the fluorescence light emitted by Nitrogen molecules when extensive air showers pass through the atmosphere, can be used to verify the capability of this kind of detector to observe ultra-high energy cosmic rays. To validate the electronics and the trigger algorithms developed for Mini-EUSO, a scaled down version of the telescope with 1:9 of the original focal surface and a lens of 2.5 cm diameter has been built. Tests of the Mini-EUSO engineering model have been made in laboratory and in open sky condition. In this paper, we report results of observations of the night sky, which include the detection of stars, meteors, a planet and a rocket body reflecting the sunlight. Interesting results of the observation of city lights are also reported.