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