| Issue |
E3S Web Conf.
Volume 196, 2020
XI International Conference “Solar-Terrestrial Relations and Physics of Earthquake Precursors”
|
|
|---|---|---|
| Article Number | 01011 | |
| Number of page(s) | 7 | |
| Section | Atmosphere Physics and Solar-Terrestrial Relations | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/e3sconf/202019601011 | |
| Published online | 16 October 2020 | |
The impact of intense fluxes of energetic protons on the low-latitude ionosphere
1 SINP, Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia
2 DSSE, National Central University, 32001 Taoyaun, Taiwan
* Corresponding author: suvorova_alla@yahoo.com
Experiments on board low-Earth orbit satellites show that energetic particles (tens of keV) of the Earth’s radiation belt can penetrate to the equatorial ionosphere. Impact of the energetic particles on the upper atmosphere and ionosphere was studied for the case of the geomagnetic storm on 22 July 2009. We present changes of local ion concentration in the low-latitude ionosphere at night measured by the C/NOFS satellite at heights 400-800 km during the magnetic storm and quiet days. The ionospheric density during the storm was compared with a simultaneous observation of enhancements of 30-80 keV proton fluxes measured by the NOAA/POES satellites near the equator at height ~850 km. We suggest that ionospheric irregularities at night can be caused by effect of energetic protons.
© The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2020
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Current usage metrics show cumulative count of Article Views (full-text article views including HTML views, PDF and ePub downloads, according to the available data) and Abstracts Views on Vision4Press platform.
Data correspond to usage on the plateform after 2015. The current usage metrics is available 48-96 hours after online publication and is updated daily on week days.
Initial download of the metrics may take a while.