Mini-EUSO: A high resolution detector for the study of terrestrial and cosmic UV emission from the International Space Station

摘要

The Mini-EUSO instrument is a UV telescope to be placed inside theInternational Space Station (ISS), looking down on the Earth from anadir-facing window in the Russian Zvezda module. Mini-EUSO will map the earthin the UV range (300 - 400 nm) with a spatial resolution of 6.11km and atemporal resolution of 2.5 $\mu$s, offering the opportunity to study a varietyof atmospheric events such as transient luminous events (TLEs) and meteors, aswell as searching for strange quark matter and bioluminescence. Furthermore,Mini-EUSO will be used to detect space debris to verify the possibility ofusing a EUSO-class telescope in combination with a high energy laser for spacedebris remediation. The high-resolution mapping of the UV emissions from Earthorbit allows Mini-EUSO to serve as a pathfinder for the study of Extreme EnergyCosmic Rays (EECRs) from space by the JEM-EUSO collaboration.