Affiliation: | 1.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN),Sezione di Perugia,Perugia,Italy;2.Uninettuno University,Rome,Italy;3.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN),Sezione di Roma Tor Vergata,Rome,Italy;4.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN),TIFPA,Povo (TN),Italy;5.Dipartimento di Fisica,Università di Trento,Povo (TN),Italy;6.Dipartimento di Fisica,Università di Roma Tor Vergata,Rome,Italy;7.IFAC-CNR,Sesto Fiorentino (FI),Italy;8.Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia,Università di Bologna,Bologna,Italy;9.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN),Sezione di Bologna,Bologna,Italy;10.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN),Sezione di Napoli,Naples,Italy;11.Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), LNF,Frascati (RM),Italy;12.Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), SSDC,Rome,Italy |
Abstract: | CSES (China Seismo-Electromagnetic Satellite) is a mission developed by CNSA (Chinese National Space Administration) and ASI (Italian Space Agency), to investigate the near-Earth electromagnetic, plasma and particle environment, for studying the seismo-associated disturbances in the ionosphere-magnetosphere transition zone. The anthropogenic and electromagnetic noise, as well as the natural non-seismic electromagnetic emissions is mainly due to tropospheric activity. In particular, the mission aims to confirming the existence of possible temporal correlations between the occurrence of earthquakes for medium and strong magnitude and the observation in space of electromagnetic perturbations, plasma variations and precipitation of bursts with high-energy charged particles from the inner Van Allen belt. In this framework, the high energy particle detector (HEPD) of the CSES mission has been developed by the Italian LIMADOU Collaboration. HEPD is an advanced detector based on a tower of scintillators and a silicon tracker that provides good energy and angular resolution and a wide angular acceptance, for electrons of 3–100 MeV, protons of 30–200 MeV and light nuclei up to the oxygen. CSES satellite has been launched on February 2nd, 2018 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (China). |