The atmospheric nightglow in the 300-400 nm wavelength - Results by the balloon-borne experiment "BABY"

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 480, Issue 2-3, 2002, Pages 547-554

  Catalano, O ^a   Agnetta, G ^a   Biondo, B ^a   Celi, F ^a   Di Raffaele, R ^a   Giarrusso, S ^a   Linsley, J ^b   La Rosa, G ^a   Lo Bue, A ^c   Mangano, A ^a   Russo, F ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Extensive air shower; Extreme energy cosmic ray; Nightglow; UV fluorescence light

Indexed keywords

COSMIC RAYS; FLUORESCENCE; PHOTODETECTORS; PHOTOMULTIPLIERS; PHOTONS;

ATMOSPHERIC NIGHTGLOW; EXTREME ENERGY COSMIC RAYS (EECR);

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 0037149251     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(01)00958-5     Document Type: Article

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1. AIR WATCH: A space mission to observe the UV fluorescence induced in the Earth atmosphere by the extreme energy cosmic radiation
2. 20 eV particles