학술논문
Evidence of an upper ionospheric electric field perturbation correlated with a gamma ray burst
Document Type
article
Author
Mirko Piersanti; Pietro Ubertini; Roberto Battiston; Angela Bazzano; Giulia D’Angelo; James G. Rodi; Piero Diego; Zhima Zeren; Roberto Ammendola; Davide Badoni; Simona Bartocci; Stefania Beolè; Igor Bertello; William J. Burger; Donatella Campana; Antonio Cicone; Piero Cipollone; Silvia Coli; Livio Conti; Andrea Contin; Marco Cristoforetti; Fabrizio De Angelis; Cinzia De Donato; Cristian De Santis; Andrea Di Luca; Emiliano Fiorenza; Francesco Maria Follega; Giuseppe Gebbia; Roberto Iuppa; Alessandro Lega; Mauro Lolli; Bruno Martino; Matteo Martucci; Giuseppe Masciantonio; Matteo Mergè; Marco Mese; Alfredo Morbidini; Coralie Neubüser; Francesco Nozzoli; Fabrizio Nuccilli; Alberto Oliva; Giuseppe Osteria; Francesco Palma; Federico Palmonari; Beatrice Panico; Emanuele Papini; Alexandra Parmentier; Stefania Perciballi; Francesco Perfetto; Alessio Perinelli; Piergiorgio Picozza; Michele Pozzato; Gianmaria Rebustini; Dario Recchiuti; Ester Ricci; Marco Ricci; Sergio B. Ricciarini; Andrea Russi; Zuleika Sahnoun; Umberto Savino; Valentina Scotti; Xuhui Shen; Alessandro Sotgiu; Roberta Sparvoli; Silvia Tofani; Nello Vertolli; Veronica Vilona; Vincenzo Vitale; Ugo Zannoni; Simona Zoffoli; Paolo Zuccon
Source
Nature Communications, Vol 14, Iss 1, Pp 1-10 (2023)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2041-1723
Abstract
Abstract 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).