Simulation study of meteors for the Mini-EUSO experiment on the ISS

Abstract: Mini-EUSO is an UV telescope developed by the JEM-EUSO collaboration and will be placed on the international space station in the end of 2017. Mini-EUSO is a precursor based on the same technology as the larger UV telescope known as JEM-EUSO. The primary objective of Mini-EUSO is to test the system to help to optimize the JEMEUSO instrument. A secondary objective of this mission is to study UV phenomena such as Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays, transient luminous events, strange quark matter, space debris and meteors in the Earth’s atmosphere. In this bachelor thesis we focused on studies of meteors. The existing simulation software ESAF will be used to perform simulations and by analyzing the output data a trigger algorithm will be developed to be able to distinguish meteoric events and also investigate the faintest meteoric events that can be detected.