Dataset of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range (290-430 nm), with 6.3 km resolution in the latitude range -51.6<L<+51.6 degrees, acquired on board the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector

L Marcelli; K Bolmgren; D Barghini; M Battisti; C Blaksley; S Blin; A Belov; M Bertaina; M Bianciotto; F Bisconti; G Cambiè; F Capel; M Casolino; I Churilo; M Crisconio; C De La Taille; T Ebisuzaki; J Eser; F Fenu; M A Franceschi; C Fuglesang; A Golzio; P Gorodetzky; H Kasuga; F Kajino; P Klimov; V Kuznetsov; M Manfrin; G Mascetti; W Marszal; H Miyamoto; A Murashov; T Napolitano; H Ohmori; A Olinto; E Parizot; P Picozza; L W Piotrowski; Z Plebaniak; G Prevot; E Reali; G Romoli; M Ricci; N Sakaki; K Shinozaki; J Szabelski; Y Takizawa; V Vagelli; G Valentini; M Vrabel; L Wiencke

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2023.109105

Dataset of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range (290-430 nm), with 6.3 km resolution in the latitude range -51.6<L<+51.6 degrees, acquired on board the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector

Data Brief. 2023 Mar 31:48:109105. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2023.109105. eCollection 2023 Jun.

Authors

L Marcelli¹, K Bolmgren², D Barghini^{3

4

5}, M Battisti³, C Blaksley⁶, S Blin⁷, A Belov^{8

9}, M Bertaina^{3

4}, M Bianciotto⁴, F Bisconti^{1

3}, G Cambiè^{1

10}, F Capel^{11

2}, M Casolino^{1

10

6}, I Churilo¹², M Crisconio¹³, C De La Taille¹⁴, T Ebisuzaki⁶, J Eser¹⁵, F Fenu¹⁶, M A Franceschi¹⁷, C Fuglesang², A Golzio^{3

4}, P Gorodetzky⁷, H Kasuga⁶, F Kajino¹⁸, P Klimov⁹, V Kuznetsov¹², M Manfrin^{3

4}, G Mascetti¹³, W Marszal¹⁹, H Miyamoto³, A Murashov⁹, T Napolitano¹⁷, H Ohmori⁶, A Olinto¹⁵, E Parizot⁷, P Picozza^{1

10}, L W Piotrowski²⁰, Z Plebaniak^{3

4

19}, G Prevot⁷, E Reali^{1

10}, G Romoli^{1

10}, M Ricci¹⁷, N Sakaki⁶, K Shinozaki¹⁹, J Szabelski¹⁹, Y Takizawa⁶, V Vagelli¹³, G Valentini¹³, M Vrabel¹⁹, L Wiencke²¹

Affiliations

¹ INFN, Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy.
² KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Brinellvägen 8, 114 28, Stockholm, Sweden.
³ INFN, Sezione di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Turin, Italy.
⁴ Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Torino, Via Pietro Giuria 1, 10125, Turin, Italy.
⁵ INAF, Osservatorio astrofisico di Torino, Via Osservatorio 20, 10025, Turin, Italy.
⁶ RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama, 351-0198, Japan.
⁷ APC, Univ Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, CEA/Irfu, Obs de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 13 rue Watt, 75013, Paris, France.
⁸ Faculty of Physics, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1(2), Leninskie gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation.
⁹ Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 1(2), Leninskie gory, GSP-1, Moscow 119991, Russian Federation.
¹⁰ Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata, Dipartimento di Fisica, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133, Rome, Italy.
¹¹ Max Planck Institute for Physics, Föhringer Ring 6, 80805, Munich, Germany.
¹² S.P. Korolev Rocket and Space Corporation Energia, 4а, Lenina str., Korolev, Moscow region, 141070, Russian Federation.
¹³ ASI, Italian Space Agency, Via del Politecnico, 00133, Rome, Italy.
¹⁴ Omega, Ecole Polytechnique, CNRS/IN2P3, Rte de Saclay, 91120, Palaiseau, France.
¹⁵ Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The University of Chicago, 5640 South Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.
¹⁶ KIT, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1, 74634, Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen, 74634, Karlsruhe, Germany.
¹⁷ INFN-LNF, Via Enrico Fermi 54, 00044, Frascati, Italy.
¹⁸ Konan University, 8 Chome-9-1 Okamoto, Higashinada Ward, Kobe, Hyogo 658-8501, Kobe, Japan.
¹⁹ National Centre for Nuclear Research, ul. Uniwersytecka 5, 90-137, Łódz, Poland.
²⁰ Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Ludwika Pasteura 5, 02-093, Warsaw, Poland.
²¹ Department of Physics, Colorado School of Mines, Meyer Hall, Golden, CO 80401, USA.

Abstract

The data presented in this article are related to the research paper entitled "Observation of night-time emissions of the Earth in the near UV range from the International Space Station with the Mini-EUSO detector" (Remote Sensing of Environment, Volume 284, January 2023, 113336, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rse.2022.113336). The data have been acquired with the Mini-EUSO detector, an UV telescope operating in the range 290-430 nm and located inside the International Space Station. The detector was launched in August 2019, and it has started operations from the nadir-facing UV-transparent window in the Russian Zvezda module in October 2019. The data presented here refer to 32 sessions acquired between 2019-11-19 and 2021-05-06. The instrument consists of a Fresnel-lens optical system and a focal surface composed of 36 multi-anode photomultiplier tubes, each with 64 channels, for a total of 2304 channels with single photon counting sensitivity. The telescope, with a square field-of-view of 44°, has a spatial resolution on the Earth surface of 6.3 km and saves triggered transient phenomena with a temporal resolution of 2.5 µs and 320 µs. The telescope also operates in continuous acquisition at a 40.96 ms scale. In this article, large-area night-time UV maps obtained processing the 40.96 ms data, taking averages over regions of some specific geographical areas (e.g., Europe, North America) and over the entire globe, are presented. Data are binned into 0.1° × 0.1° or 0.05° × 0.05° cells (depending on the scale of the map) over the Earth's surface. Raw data are made available in the form of tables (latitude, longitude, counts) and .kmz files (containing the .png images). These are - to the best of our knowledge - the highest sensitivity data in this wavelength range and can be of use to various disciplines.

Keywords: Earth observation from space; ISS; Mini-EUSO; UV maps; UV terrestrial emissions.