Evidence of an upper ionospheric electric field perturbation correlated with a gamma ray burst.
Journal
Nature communications
ISSN: 2041-1723
Titre abrégé: Nat Commun
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101528555
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Date de publication:
14 Nov 2023
14 Nov 2023
Historique:
received:
04
02
2023
accepted:
13
10
2023
medline:
15
11
2023
pubmed:
15
11
2023
entrez:
14
11
2023
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
Earth's atmosphere, whose ionization stability plays a fundamental role for the evolution and endurance of life, is exposed to the effect of cosmic explosions producing high energy Gamma-ray-bursts. Being able to abruptly increase the atmospheric ionization, they might deplete stratospheric ozone on a global scale. During the last decades, an average of more than one Gamma-ray-burst per day were recorded. Nevertheless, measurable effects on the ionosphere were rarely observed, in any case on its bottom-side (from about 60 km up to about 350 km of altitude). Here, we report evidence of an intense top-side (about 500 km) ionospheric perturbation induced by significant sudden ionospheric disturbance, and a large variation of the ionospheric electric field at 500 km, which are both correlated with the October 9, 2022 Gamma-ray-burst (GRB221009A).
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pubmed: 37963921
doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-42551-5
pii: 10.1038/s41467-023-42551-5
pmc: PMC10646044
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eng
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