1. Evidence of an upper ionospheric electric field perturbation correlated with a gamma ray burst
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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, and Paolo Zuccon
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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).
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- 2023
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