JEM-EUSO: Extreme universe space observatory on JEM/ISS

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作者
Takizawa, Y.
Ebisuzaki, T.
Kawasaki, Y.
Sato, M.
Bertaina, M. E.
Ohmori, H.
Takahashi, Y.
Kajino, F.
Nagano, M.
Sakaki, N.
Inoue, N.
Ikeda, H.
Arai, Y.
Takahashi, Y.
Murakami, T.
Adams, James H.
机构
[1] RIKEN, Wako, Saitama 3510198, Japan
[2] Konan Univ, Higashinada Ku, Kobe, Hyogo 6588501, Japan
[3] Fukui Univ Technol, Fukui 9108505, Japan
[4] Aoyama Gakuin Univ, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298558, Japan
[5] Saitama Univ, Sakura Ku, Urawa, Saitama 3388570, Japan
[6] JAXA, ISAS, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 2298510, Japan
[7] KEK, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3050801, Japan
[8] Tohoku Univ, Aoba Ku, Sendai, Miyagi 9808578, Japan
[9] Kanazawa Univ, Kanazawa, Ishikawa 9201192, Japan
[10] NASA, George C Marshall Space Flight Ctr, Huntsville, AL 35812 USA
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D O I
10.1016/j.nuclphysbps.2006.12.007
中图分类号
O412 [相对论、场论]; O572.2 [粒子物理学];
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摘要
EUSO is a super-wide field UV telescope to detect Ultra-High Energy Cosmic-Rays (UHECRs) with energy above 10(20) eV. It is attached to the International Space Station (ISS) and observes fluorescence photons emitted by giant air showers produced by UHECR. The three dimensional development of the shower is reconstructed from a series of images of the shower. Phase-A study of EUSO under the European Space Agency (ESA) has successfully finished in July 2004. The phase-B study, however, has been postponed for a long time because of financial problems in ESA and Italy. Then, Japanese and U.S. teams re-defined EUSO as a mission attached to the Japanese Experiment Module/Exposure Facility of ISS. They renamed it as JEM-EUSO and started the preparation targeting the launch in 2012 in the framework of second phase of JEM/EF utilization. The outline of the mission is presented.
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页数:5
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