The Sileye—Alteino experiment on board the International Space Station

• Published in: Nuclear physics. Section B, Proceedings supplement Vol. 113; no. 1; pp. 71 - 78
• Main Authors: Casolino, M., Bidoli, V., Furano, G., Minori, M., Morselli, A., Narici, L., Picozza, P., Reali, E., Sparvoli, R., Fuglesang, C., Sannita, W.G., Carlson, P., Castellini, G., Tesi, M., Galper, A., Korotkov, M., Popov, A., Vavilov, N., Avdeev, S., Benghin, V., Salnitskii, V.P., Shevchenko, O.I., Petrov, V.P., Trukhanov, K.A., Boezio, M., Bonvicini, W., Vacchi, A., Zampa, G., Zampa, N., Mazzenga, G., Ricci, M., Spillantini, P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: Elsevier B.V 01.12.2002
• ISSN: 0920-5632; 1873-3832
• DOI: 10.1016/S0920-5632(02)01824-8

The experiment Sileye-3/Alteino was placed on board the International Space Station on 27 April 2002. The instrument is constituted by a cosmic ray silicon detector and an electroencephalograph. The main scientific aims include the investigation of the Light Flash phenomenon, the study of astronaut brain activity in space when subject to cosmic rays, the measurement of the radiation environment and the nuclear abundances inside the ISS. The instrument cosmic ray detector was active for 130 hours. In addition 6 astronaut Light Flash observation sessions were held, resulting in the observation of this phenomenon on the ISS.