JEM-EUSO observational technique and exposure

J H Adams,H Prieto,J Bayer,M Sakata,J F Valdés-Galicia,T Shibata,A Franceschi,A Haungs,N Tone,T Pierog,G Vankova,O Martinez,I V Yashin,J Sledd,C De La Taille,D Supanitsky,V S Morozenko,J A Morales De Los Ríos,E Joven,J Fujimoto,C De Donato,M Karus,N De Simone,I Fernández-Gómez,L Del Peral,B Mot,I Rusinov,P Von Ballmoos,R Engel,G Castellinic,G Masciantonio,A Anzalone,G Distratis,Y Uchihori,B A Khrenov,A Bruno,G Roudil,T Mernik,P Prat,A Pollini,J Szabelski,Y Hachisu,J Blümer,P Barrillon,T Patzak,L Conti,M Sanz Palomino,J Geary,C De Santis,N Inoue,A Ebersoldt,T Tymieniecka,S Biktemerova,H Schieler,M C Maccarone,R Matev,N Tajima,S Perez Cano,C Tenzer,A Segreto,Y Miyazaki,G Modestino,C González Alvarado,I Kreykenbohm,K Higashide,O Tibolla,M Lacombe,M Yu Zotov,M Kleifges,G Sáez-Cano,F Guarino,P Galeotti,Y Tsunesada,R Bechini,A Dell’Oro,T Shirahama,S Blin-Bondil,A Guzmán,B Harlov,L Valore,H Tokuno,J Karczmarczyk,T Batsch,L Santiago Crúz,M Takeda,P Baragatti,P Picozza,G Cordero,R Tsenov,M D Rodríguez Frías,M I Panasyuk,A Sobey,M Serra,E Parizot,F Cafagna,A Insolia,L Villaseñor,K Mase,M Dupieux,D Kolev,D Campana,Z Plebaniak,D Maravilla,Y Karadzhov,T Paul,M Bogomilov,S Selmane,S Dagoret-Campagne,M Unger,M D Sabau,F Kajino,H J Crawford,T Napolitano,C Blaksley,B Keilhauer,L Marcelli,K Słomińska,C Lachaud,G Osteria,M Di Martino,E G Judd,F Dulucq,D Monnier-Ragaigne,M Wille,M Fukushima,G Siemieniec‐Oziȩbło ,Patrick J Reardon ,M S Briggs,Alexander Kusenko ,M Roth,Kenji Yoshida ,S Toscano,H Miyamoto,J Albert ,Kazutoshi Katahira ,S Ferrarese,M Bertaina,Luis A Anchordoqui ,G Giraudo,D Semikoz,Y Takizawa,Hirokazu Ikeda ,M Casolino,R Caruso,J Lee,Toshitaka Kajino ,S W Kim ,O Văduvescu ,Fernando Martínez López ,Massimiliano Bonamente ,Y Yamamoto,M Ave Pernas,M Ricci,A Marini,T Tomida,T Schanz,H Sato,Denis Allard ,M Reyes,M Gonchar,S Ahmad,T Weiler ,S Falk,R Young,H W Park,M J Christl,G Garipov,S Briz,C Moretto,Ke Fang ,Rodrigo Nava ,P Gorodetzky,G Prévôt,Graciela B Gelmini ,D Ikeda,Fumiko Tajima ,N Sakaki,I H Park,M Nagata,K Shinozaki,K Mannheim,J N Capdevielle ,Shigeto Watanabe ,T Tajima,V Scotti,Л Ткачев ,П А Климов ,Y Kawasaki,I Rodríguez,H Salazar,J Wilms,Susumu Inoue ,B Pastirčák ,Y Itow,J W Watts ,F Ronga,D Finco,Marta Flamini ,A Santangelo,Andreas A Berlind ,L Wiencke,R Cremonini,H H Silva López,O Saprykin,J Hernández Carretero,F Trillaud,H Takami,Hideyuki Shimizu ,Francesco Fenu ,K Kudela,Hanna Rothkaehl ,Y Kurihara,Akinori Saito ,Ichiro Kaneko ,H Lim,S Ogio,Francesco Isgrò ,Daisuke Yonetoku ,A Jung,Z Włodarczyk,Tokonatsu Yamamoto ,Sergio Sánchez ,C Catalano,D Naumov,M Suzuki,T Belenguer,V Andreev,Hajime Yano ,P Bobík ,S Sharakin,J Yang,J Błęcki ,C Vigorito,Katsuaki Asano ,F Sarazin,C Pennypacker,S E Csorna ,P Vallania,Antonio Castro ,V Connaughton,S Piraino,K Tsuno,Takuji Nakamura ,H Sagawa,P Orleański,T Wibig,Angela V Olinto ,D Cline,G Medina‐Tanco ,A Zuccaro Marchi,J S Kim ,M Rybczyński,Satoshi Wada ,J Watanabe,K Belov,Toshikazu Ebisuzaki ,A Neronov,Mitsuteru Sato ,M Weber,Y Mizumoto,Masao Murakami ,Ken’ichi Nomoto ,B Szabelska,Nicolas Blanc ,T Sugiyama,Tatsuhiko Ogawa ,Shigehiro Nagataki ,M Chikawa,J Licandro,Claudio Cassardo ,Thomas Peter ,E Kuznetsov,T Nonaka,M Putiš ,Shigeru Yoshida ,L W Piotrowski,C Fornaro,Gelsomina Catalano ,A Cellino,K Kawai,Hitoshi Ohmori ,A Monaco,Yoshiyuki Takahashi ,R Bellotti,P L Biermann,Y Arai,Takeshi Murakami

doi:10.1007/s10686-014-9376-3

Abstract

Designed as the first mission to explore the ultra-high energy universe from space, JEM-EUSO observes the Earth’s atmosphere at night to record the ultraviolet tracks generated by the extensive air showers. We present the expected geometrical aperture and annual exposure in the nadir and tilt modes for ultra-high energy cosmic rays observation as a function of the altitude of the International Space Station.

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