The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) observatory

Autor: Patrick J. Reardon, P. Bertone, A. Anzalone, Y. Takizawa, Kevin-Druis Merenda, Ke Fang, S. Mackovjak, M. Bagheri, Roberto Aloisio, M. E. Bertaina, S. S. Meyer, G. Filippatos, Ralf Ulrich, D. Barghini, Douglas Bergman, Jane Nachtman, Yasar Onel, Fred Sarazin, R. Young, E. G. Judd, Mark Christl, D. Winn, K. Shinozaki, Angela V. Olinto, Miroslav Pech, P. Picozza, L. Marcelli, E. Hays, G. Prévôt, M. Battisti, Dusan Mandat, Floyd W. Stecker, F. Oikonomou, Z. Plebaniak, A. Haungs, Jorge F. Soriano, Ralph Engel, A. N. Otte, John Mitchell, Francesco Fenu, Johannes Eser, Mauricio Bustamante, Petr Schovanek, Eliza Gazda, M. Ricci, Mikhail Zotov, Rossella Caruso, Andrii Neronov, E. Parizot, Luis A. Anchordoqui, Valentina Scotti, V. Kungel, A. L. Cummings, F. Cafagna, Pavel Klimov, Marco Casolino, James H. Adams, C. Guepin, G. Osteria, E. Kuznetsov, O. Romero Matamala, I. De Mitri, K. Černý, J. S. Perkins, Tonia M. Venters, R. Diesing, T. Paul, L. R. Wiencke, G. Medina-Tanco, Mary Hall Reno, John F. Krizmanic, H. Miyamoto, Lech Wiktor Piotrowski, Julie McEnery, Francesca Bisconti, M. Unger
Přispěvatelé: Collaboration, P., Olinto, A. V., Krizmanic, J., Adams, J. H., Aloisio, R., Anchordoqui, L. A., Anzalone, A., Bagheri, M., Barghini, D., Battisti, M., Bergman, D. R., Bertaina, M. E., Bertone, P. F., Bisconti, F., Bustamante, M., Cafagna, F., Caruso, R., Casolino, M., Cerny, K., Christl, M. J., Cummings, A. L., De Mitri, I., Diesing, R., Engel, R., Eser, J., Fang, K., Fenu, F., Filippatos, G., Gazda, E., Guepin, C., Haungs, A., Hays, E. A., Judd, E. G., Klimov, P., Kungel, V., Kuznetsov, E., Mackovjak, S., Mandat, D., Marcelli, L., Mcenery, J., Medina-Tanco, G., Merenda, K. -D., Meyer, S. S., Mitchell, J. W., Miyamoto, H., Nachtman, J. M., Neronov, A., Oikonomou, F., Onel, Y., Osteria, G., Otte, A. N., Parizot, E., Paul, T., Pech, M., Perkins, J. S., Picozza, P., Piotrowski, L. W., Plebaniak, Z., Prevot, G., Reardon, P., Reno, M. H., Ricci, M., Romero Matamala, O., Sarazin, F., Schovanek, P., Scotti, V., Shinozaki, K., Soriano, J. F., Stecker, F., Takizawa, Y., Ulrich, R., Unger, M., Venters, T. M., Wiencke, L., Winn, D., Young, R. M., Zotov, M., AstroParticule et Cosmologie (APC (UMR_7164)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules du CNRS (IN2P3)-Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), POEMMA, Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris Cité (UPCité)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
Předmět:
air: fluorescence
cosmic rays detectors
neutrino astronomy
ultra high energy cosmic rays
ultra high energy photons and neutrinos
Astrophysics
7. Clean energy
01 natural sciences
neutrino: flux
ultra high energy cosmic ray
law.invention
High Energy Physics - Experiment
High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
Observatory
law
ultraviolet
optical
[PHYS.HEXP]Physics [physics]/High Energy Physics - Experiment [hep-ex]
Cherenkov
orbit
Physics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
COSMIC cancer database
formation
Astrophysics::Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Schmidt camera
neutrino: UHE
observatory
Neutrino
Astrophysics - Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
satellite
FOS: Physical sciences
Cosmic ray
Telescope
0103 physical sciences
cosmic radiation: UHE
[PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-INS-DET]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Instrumentation and Detectors [physics.ins-det]
cosmic rays detector
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
Cherenkov radiation
neutrino/tau
showers: atmosphere
hybrid
010308 nuclear & particles physics
detector: surface
Astronomy and Astrophysics
neutrino: particle source
sensitivity
messenger
13. Climate action
Neutrino astronomy
[PHYS.ASTR]Physics [physics]/Astrophysics [astro-ph]
Zdroj: JCAP
JCAP, 2021, 06, pp.007. ⟨10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/007⟩
Popis: The Probe Of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics (POEMMA) is designed to accurately observe ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and cosmic neutrinos from space with sensitivity over the full celestial sky. POEMMA will observe the extensive air showers (EASs) from UHECRs and UHE neutrinos above 20 EeV via air fluorescence. Additionally, POEMMA will observe the Cherenkov signal from upward-moving EASs induced by Earth-interacting tau neutrinos above 20 PeV. The POEMMA spacecraft are designed to quickly re-orientate to follow up transient neutrino sources and obtain unparalleled neutrino flux sensitivity. Developed as a NASA Astrophysics Probe-class mission, POEMMA consists of two identical satellites flying in loose formation in 525 km altitude orbits. Each POEMMA instrument incorporates a wide field-of-view (45$^\circ$) Schmidt telescope with over 6 m$^2$ of collecting area. The hybrid focal surface of each telescope includes a fast (1~$\mu$s) near-ultraviolet camera for EAS fluorescence observations and an ultrafast (10~ns) optical camera for Cherenkov EAS observations. In a 5-year mission, POEMMA will provide measurements that open new multi-messenger windows onto the most energetic events in the universe, enabling the study of new astrophysics and particle physics at these otherwise inaccessible energies.
Comment: 66 pages, 53 figures; JCAP accepted version
Databáze: OpenAIRE