An evaluation of the exposure in nadir observation of the JEM-EUSO mission

Adams, J. H.; Ahmad, S.; Albert, J.-N.; Allard, D.; Ambrosio, M.; Anchordoqui, L.; Anzalone, A.; Arai, Y.; Aramo, C.; Asano, K.; Ave, M.; Barrillon, P.; Batsch, T.; Bayer, J.; Belenguer, T.; Bellotti, R.; Berlind, A. A.; Bertaina, M.; Biermann, P. L.; Biktemerova, S.; Blaksley, C.; Błȩcki, J.; Blin-Bondil, S.; Blümer, J.; Bobik, P.; Bogomilov, M.; Bonamente, M.; Briggs, M. S.; Briz, S.; Bruno, A.; Cafagna, F.; Campana, D.; Capdevielle, J.-N.; Caruso, R.; Casolino, M.; Cassardo, C.; Castellini, G.; Catalano, O.; Cellino, A.; Chikawa, M.; Christl, M. J.; Connaughton, V.; Cortés, J. F.; Crawford, H. J.; Cremonini, R.; Csorna, S.; D'Olivo, J. C.; Dagoret-Campagne, S.; de Castro, A. J.; De Donato, C.; de la Taille, C.; del Peral, L.; Dell'Oro, A.; De Pascale, M. P.; Di Martino, M.; Distratis, G.; Dupieux, M.; Ebersoldt, A.; Ebisuzaki, T.; Engel, R.; Falk, S.; Fang, K.; Fenu, F.; Fernández-Gómez, I.; Ferrarese, S.; Franceschi, A.; Fujimoto, J.; Galeotti, P.; Garipov, G.; Geary, J.; Giaccari, U. G.; Giraudo, G.; Gonchar, M.; González Alvarado, C.; Gorodetzky, P.; Guarino, F.; Guzmán, A.; Hachisu, Y.; Harlov, B.; Haungs, A.; Hernández Carretero, J.; Higashide, K.; Iguchi, T.; Ikeda, H.; Inoue, N.; Inoue, S.; Insolia, A.; Isgrò, F.; Itow, Y.; Joven, E.; Judd, E. G.; Jung, A.; Kajino, F.; Kajino, T.; Kaneko, I.; Karadzhov, Y.; Karczmarczyk, J.; Katahira, K.; Kawai, K.; Kawasaki, Y. et al.
Bibliographical reference

Astroparticle Physics, Volume 44, p. 76-90.

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2013
Number of authors
261
IAC number of authors
5
Citations
97
Refereed citations
62
Description
We evaluate the exposure during nadir observations with JEM-EUSO, the Extreme Universe Space Observatory, on-board the Japanese Experiment Module of the International Space Station. Designed as a mission to explore the extreme energy Universe from space, JEM-EUSO will monitor the Earth's nighttime atmosphere to record the ultraviolet light from tracks generated by extensive air showers initiated by ultra-high energy cosmic rays. In the present work, we discuss the particularities of space-based observation and we compute the annual exposure in nadir observation. The results are based on studies of the expected trigger aperture and observational duty cycle, as well as, on the investigations of the effects of clouds and different types of background light. We show that the annual exposure is about one order of magnitude higher than those of the presently operating ground-based observatories.
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