EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25th of August 2014 from Timmins, Canada. The flight ended successfully after maintaining the target altitude of 38 km for five hours. One part of the mission was a 2.5 hour underflight using a helicopter equipped with three UV light sources (LED, xenon flasher and laser) to perform an inflight calibration and examine the detectors capability to measure tracks moving at the speed of light. We describe the helicopter laser system and details of the underflight as well as how the laser tracks were recorded and found in the data. These are the first recorded laser tracks measured from a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere. Finally, we present a first reconstruction of the direction of the laser tracks relative to the detector. © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.

First observations of speed of light tracks by a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere

Bartocci, S.;Conti, L.;Flamini, M.;Fornaro, C.;Placidi, L.;
2018-01-01

Abstract

EUSO-Balloon is a pathfinder mission for the Extreme Universe Space Observatory onboard the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM-EUSO). It was launched on the moonless night of the 25th of August 2014 from Timmins, Canada. The flight ended successfully after maintaining the target altitude of 38 km for five hours. One part of the mission was a 2.5 hour underflight using a helicopter equipped with three UV light sources (LED, xenon flasher and laser) to perform an inflight calibration and examine the detectors capability to measure tracks moving at the speed of light. We describe the helicopter laser system and details of the underflight as well as how the laser tracks were recorded and found in the data. These are the first recorded laser tracks measured from a fluorescence detector looking down on the atmosphere. Finally, we present a first reconstruction of the direction of the laser tracks relative to the detector. © 2018 IOP Publishing Ltd and Sissa Medialab.
2018
Balloons
Lasers
Light
Light sources
Light velocity, Fluorescence detector
In-flight calibration
Japanese experiment modules
Laser systems
Laser tracks
Pathfinder mission
Space instrumentations
Space observatories, Fluorescence
Balloon instrumentation
Detectors for UV, visible and IR photons
Lasers
Space instrumentation
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