K-EUSO is a planned mission of the JEM-EUSO program for the study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) from space, to be deployed on the International Space Station. The K-EUSO observatory consists of a UV telescope with a wide field of view, which aims at the detection of fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers (EAS) in the atmosphere. The EAS events will be sampled with a time resolution of 1-2.5 μs to reconstruct the entire shower profile with high precision. The detector consisting of ∼ 105 independent pixels will allow a spatial resolution of ∼700 m on ground. From a 400 km altitude, K-EUSO will achieve a large and full sky exposure to sample the highest energy range of the UHECR spectrum. In this contribution, we present estimates of the performance of the observatory: an estimation of the expected exposure and triggered event rate as a function of energy and the event reconstruction performance, including resolution of arrival directions and energy of UHECRs. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)

Expected performance of the K-EUSO space-based observatory

Bianciotto Marta;Anzalone A.;Arnone E.;Bagheri M.;Barghini D.;Bartocci S.;Bertaina Mario;Bisconti F.;Blanc N.;Bozzo E.;Casolino Marco;Cassardo C.;Cellino A.;Cotto G.;Cremonini R.;Ferrarese S.;Franchini S.;Galeotti P.;Gardiol D.;Golzio A.;Kajino F.;Manfrin M.;Miyamoto H.;Neronov A.;Pagliaro A.;Perfetto F.;Piraino S.;Plebaniak Z.;Pollini A.;Scagliola A.;Shinozaki K.;Suzuki M.;Vigorito C.;
2022-01-01

Abstract

K-EUSO is a planned mission of the JEM-EUSO program for the study of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR) from space, to be deployed on the International Space Station. The K-EUSO observatory consists of a UV telescope with a wide field of view, which aims at the detection of fluorescence light emitted by extensive air showers (EAS) in the atmosphere. The EAS events will be sampled with a time resolution of 1-2.5 μs to reconstruct the entire shower profile with high precision. The detector consisting of ∼ 105 independent pixels will allow a spatial resolution of ∼700 m on ground. From a 400 km altitude, K-EUSO will achieve a large and full sky exposure to sample the highest energy range of the UHECR spectrum. In this contribution, we present estimates of the performance of the observatory: an estimation of the expected exposure and triggered event rate as a function of energy and the event reconstruction performance, including resolution of arrival directions and energy of UHECRs. © Copyright owned by the author(s) under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0)
2022
37 th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2021)
Berlin
July 12th – 23rd, 2021
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Cosmic rays; Cosmology; Space stations; Energy; Extensive air showers; International Space stations; JEM-EUSO; Performance; Planned missions; Space-based observatories; Time-resolution; Ultra high-energy cosmic rays; Wide field-ofview; Observatories
Bianciotto Marta; Abdellaoui G.; Abe S.; Adams J.H.; Allard D.; Alonso G.; Anchordoqui L.; Anzalone A.; Arnone E.; Asano K.; Attallah R.; Attoui H.; Ave Pernas M.; Bagheri M.; Baláz J.; Bakiri M.; Barghini D.; Bartocci S.; Battisti M.; Bayer J.; Beldjilali B.; Belenguer T.; Belkhalfa N.; Bellotti R.; Belov A.A.; Benmessai K.; Bertaina Mario; Bertone P.F.; Biermann P.L.; Bisconti F.; Blaksley C.; Blanc N.; Blin-Bondil S.; Bobik P.; Bogomilov M.; Bolmgren K.; Bozzo E.; Briz S.; Bruno A.; Caballero K.S.; Cafagna F.; Cambié G.; Campana D.; Capdevielle J.-N.; Capel F.; Caramete A.; Caramete L.; Carlson P.; Caruso R.; Casolino Marco; Cassardo C.; Castellina A.; Catalano O.; Cellino A.; Černý K.; Chikawa M.; Chiritoi G.; Christl M.J.; Colalillo R.; Conti L.; Cotto G.; Crawford H.J.; Cremonini R.; Creusot A.; de Castro Gónzalez A.; de la Taille C.; del Peral L.; Diaz Damian A.; Diesing R.; Dinaucourt P.; Djakonow A.; Djemil T.; Ebersoldt A.; Ebisuzaki T.; Eser J.; Fenu Fenu; Fernández-González S.; Ferrarese S.; Filippatos G.; Finch W.I.; Fornaro C.; Fouka M.; Franceschi A.; Franchini S.; Fuglesang C.; Fujii T.; Fukushima M.; Galeotti P.; García-Ortega E.; Gardiol D.; Garipov G.K.; Gascón E.; Gazda E.; Genci J.; Golzio A.; González Alvarado C.; Gorodetzky P.; Green A.; Guarino F.; Guépin C.; Guzmán A.; Hachisu Y.; Haungs A.; Hernández Carretero J.; Hulett L.; Ikeda D.; Inoue N.; Inoue S.; Isgrò F.; Itow Y.; Jammer T.; Jeong S.; Joven E.; Judd E.G.; Jochum J.; Kajino F.; Kajino T.; Kalli S.; Kaneko I.; Karadzhov Y.; Kasztelan M.; Katahira K.; Kawai K.; Kawasaki Y.; Kedadra A.; Khales H.; Khrenov B.A.; Kim Jeong-Sook; Kim Soon-Wook; Kleifges M.; Klimov Pavel A.; Kolev D.; Kreykenbohm I.; Krizmanic J.F.; Królik K.; Kungel V.; Kurihara Y.; Kusenko A.; Kuznetsov E.; Lahmar H.; Lakhdari F.; Licandro J.; López Campano L.; López Martínez F.; Mackovjak S.; Mahdi M.; Mandát D.; Manfrin M.; Marcelli L.; Marcos J.L.; Marszał W.; Martín Y.; Martinez O.; Mase K.; Matev R.; Matthews J.N.; Mebarki N.; Medina-Tanco G.; Menshikov A.; Merino A.; Mese M.; Meseguer J.; Meyer S.S.; Mimouni J.; Miyamoto H.; Mizumoto Y.; Monaco A.; Morales de los Ríos J.A.; Mastafa M.; Nagataki S.; Naitamor S.; Napolitano T.; Nachtman J.M.; Neronov A.; Nomoto K.; Nonaka T.; Ogawa T.; Ogio S.; Ohmori H.; Olinto A.V.; Onel Y.; Osteria G.; Otte A.N.; Pagliaro A.; Painter W.; Panasyuk M.I.; Panico B.; Parizot E.; Park I.H.; Pastircak B.; Paul T.; Pech M.; Pérez-Grande I.; Perfetto F.; Peter T.; Picozza P.; Pindado S.; Piotrowski L.W.; Piraino S.; Plebaniak Z.; Pollini A.; Popescu E.M.; Prevete R.; Prévôt G.; Prieto H.; Przybylak M.; Puehlhofer G.; Putis M.; Reardon P.; Reno M.H.; Reyes M.; Ricci M.; Rodríguez Frías M.D.; Romero Matamala O.F.; Ronga F.; Sabau M.D.; Saccá G.; Sáez Cano G.; Sagawa H.; Sahnoune Z.; Saito A.; Sakaki Naoto; Salazar H.; Sanchez Balanzar J.C.; Sánchez J.L.; Santangelo A.; Sanz-Andrés A.; Sanz Palomino M.; Saprykin O.A.; Sarazin F.; Sato M.; Scagliola A.; Schanz T.; Schieler H.; Schovánek P.; Scotti V.; Serra M.; Sharakin Sergei A.; Shimizu H.M.; Shinozaki K.; Soriano J.F.; Sotgiu A.; Stan I.; Strharský I.; Sugiyama N.; Supanitsky D.; Suzuki M.; Szabelski J.; Tajima N.; Tajima T.; Takahashi Y.; Takeda M.; Takizawa Yoshiyuki; Talai M.C.; Tameda Y.; Tenzer C.; Thomas S.B.; Tibolla O.; Tkachev L.G.; Tomida T.; Tone N.; Toscano S.; Traïche M.; Tsunesada Y.; Tsuno K.; Turriziani S.; Uchihori Y.; Vaduvescu O.; Valdés-Galicia J.F.; Vallania P.; Valore L.; Vankova-Kirilova G.; Venters T.M.; Vigorito C.; Villaseñor L.; Vlcek B.; von Ballmoos P.; Vrabel M.; Wada S.; Watanabe J.; Watts J.; Weigand Muñoz R.; Weindl A.; Wiencke L.; Wille M.; Wilms J.; Winn D.; Yamamoto T.; Yang J.; Yano H.; Yashin I.V.; Yonetoku D.; Yoshida S.; Young R.; Zgura I.S.; Zotov Mikhail Yu.; Zuccaro Marchi A.
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