Meteor detection from space with Mini-EUSO telescope
- 1Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Torino, Italy (dario.barghini@edu.unito.it)
- 2Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Torino, Italy
- 3Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy
- 4SINP, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia
- 5KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 6Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy
- 7RIKEN, Wako, Japan
- 8Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma, Italy
- 9Universitè de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75006 Paris, France
- *A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract
Mini-EUSO is a very wide (44°x44°) field of view telescope installed on August 2019 inside the Zvezda Module of the ISS, looking nadir through a UV transparent window and taking data since October 2019. Its optical system consists of two Fresnel lenses, focusing the light onto an array of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes. The focal surface counts a total of 2304 pixels, each one having a footprint of about 6.5 km on ground. The instrument triggers on two different timescales, respectively 2.5 μs (D1) and 320 μs (D2), and perform a continuous monitoring of the UV emission at a 40.96 ms timescale (D3). At time of writing, about one thousand meteors on D3 data have been classified as meteors using our current detection algorithm. We describe here a concept of an alternative algorithm to recognize meteors in the D3 continuous data-stream, which can be also implemented in the future for online triggering, and show some examples of detected meteors by our instrument. We also performed a search of possible coincident detections of Mini-EUSO meteors by ground meteor and fireball networks, such as PRISMA in Italy, to gain a stereoscopic vision of the event itself. In light of these initial results, we present here the capabilities of Mini-EUSO instrument in meteor science.
S. Bacholle (9), D. Barghini (1,2,3), P. Barrillon (10), M. Battisti (1,2), A. Belov (4), M. Bertaina (1,2), F. Bisconti (1,2), K. Blaksley (7), S. Blin-Bondil (11), F. Cafagna (12), G. Cambiè (6,8), F. Capel (5), M. Casolino (6,7,8), M. Crisconio (13), I. Churilo (14), G. Cotto (1,2), C. de la Taille (11), A. Djakonow (15), T. Ebisuzaki (7), F. Fenu (2), A. Franceschi (16), C. Fuglesang (5), P. Gorodetzky (17), A. Haungs (18), F. Kajino (19), H. Kasuga (7), B. Khrenov (4), P. Klimov (4), S. Kochepasov (4), V. Kuznetsov (14), L. Marcelli (6), W. Marszal (15), M. Mignone (1), G. Mascetti (13), H. Miyamoto (1,2), A. Murashov (4), T. Napolitano (16), A. V. Olinto (20), H. Ohomori (7), G. Osteria (21), M. Panasyuk (4), M. Porfilio (13), A. Poroshin (4), E. Parizot (9), P. Picozza (8,6), L. W. Piotrowski (7), Z. Plebaniak (1,2,15), G. Prévot (9), M. Przybylak (15), E. Reali (8), M. Ricci (16), N. Sakaki (7), K. Shinozaki (1,2,15), J. Szabelski (15), Y. Takizawa (7), M. Traiche (22), G. Valentini (13), S. Wada (7), L. Wiencke (23), I. Yashin (4) \\ Affiliations: (1) Dipartimento di Fisica, Universita' di Torino, Italy (2) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Torino, Italy (3) Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Osservatorio Astrofisico di Torino, Italy (4) SINP, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia (5) KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (6) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy (7) RIKEN, Wako, Japan (8) Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata - Dipartimento di Fisica, Roma, Italy (9) Universitè de Paris, CNRS, Astroparticule et Cosmologie, F-75006 Paris, France (10) LAL, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France (11) Omega, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Palaiseau, France (12) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Bari, Italy (13) ASI, Italian Space Agency, Italy (14) S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, Korolev, Moscow area, Russia (15) National Centre for Nuclear Research, Lodz, Poland (16) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Laboratori Nazionali di Frascati, Italy (17) APC, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Obs de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France (18) Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany (19) Konan University, Kobe, Japan (20) The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA (21) Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare - Sezione di Napoli, Italy (22) Centre for Development of Advanced Technologies (CDTA), Algiers, Algeria (23) Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO, USA
How to cite: Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Belov, A., Bertaina, M. E., Bisconti, F., Capel, F., Casolino, M., Ebisuzaki, T., Gardiol, D., Klimov, P., Marcelli, L., Miyamoto, H., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Prévot, G., Reali, E., Sakaki, N., and Takizawa, Y. and the Mini-EUSO collaboration: Meteor detection from space with Mini-EUSO telescope, Europlanet Science Congress 2020, online, 21 Sep–9 Oct 2020, EPSC2020-800, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc2020-800, 2020.
