PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 301 - 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017) - Session Gamma-Ray Astronomy. GA-instrumentation
TAIGA-HiSCORE detection of the CATS-Lidar on the ISS as fast moving point source
R. Wischnewski*, A. Porelli, A. Garmash, I. Astapov, P. Bezyazeekov, V. Boreyko, A. Borodin, M. Brueckner, N.M. Budnev, A. Chiavassa, A.N. Dyachok, O. Fedorov, A. Gafarov, N. Gorbunov, E.S. Gorbovskoy, V. Grebenyuk, O. Gress, T.I. Gress, O. Grishin, A. Grinyuk, D. Horns, A. Ivanova, N. Kalmykov, Y. Kazarina, V. Kindin, P. Kirilenko, S. Kiryuhin, R. Kokoulin, K. Kompaniets, E. Korosteleva, V.V. Kozhin, E. Kravchenko, M. Kunnas, L. Kuzmichev, Y. Lemeshev, V. Lenok, B. Lubsandorzhiev, V.M. Lipunov, N. Lubsandorzhiev, R. Mirgazov, R. Mirzoyan, R. Monkhoev, R. Nachtigall, E. Osipova, A. Pakhorukov, M.I. Panasyuk, L. Pankov, A. Petrukhin, V. Poleschuk, E. Popescu, E. Popova, E. Postnikov, V. Prosin, V. Ptuskin, E.V. Rjabov, G. Rubtsov, A. Pushnin, Y. Sagan, B. Sabirov, V. Samoliga, Y. Semeney, A. Silaev, A. Silaev(junior), A. Sidorenkov, A.V. Skurihin, V. Slunecka, A.V. Sokolov, C. Spiering, G. Spengler, L. Sveshnikova, V.A. Tabolenko, B. Tarashansky, A. Tkachenko, L. Tkachev, M. Tluczykont, A. Zagorodnikov, D. Zhurov, V. Zurbanov and I. Yashinet al. (click to show)
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Pre-published on: August 24, 2017
Published on: August 03, 2018
Abstract
We report the first ground-based observation of the CATS-LIDAR onboard the ISS by the TAIGA-HiSCORE gamma-ray facility, and the MASTER-Tunka Robotic telescope. HiSCORE detects unscattered laser light directly from the ISS, at up to km-scale distance from the laser beam spot on ground. The ISS-LIDAR turns out to be a unique calibration tool, in particular to verify the absolute astronomical pointing of HiSCORE.

We detected the LIDAR for 11 ISS-passages; among these were observations of forward scattering of the laser beam in dense clouds, which might carry information complementary to the LIDAR technique. We expect other air Cherenkov installations like IACTs to benefit from this light source.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.301.0754
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