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Evidence of an upper ionospheric electric field perturbation correlated with a gamma ray burst

Ubertini, Pietro; Bazzano, Angela; Zannoni, Ugo +68 more

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 aver…

A peculiar low-luminosity short gamma-ray burst from a double neutron star merger progenitor

Li, Y.; Shao, L.; Zhang, S. +15 more

Double neutron star (DNS) merger events are promising candidates of short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) progenitors as well as high-frequency gravitational wave (GW) emitters. On August 17, 2017, such a coinciding event was detected by both the LIGO-Virgo gravitational wave detector network as GW170817 and Gamma-Ray Monitor on board NASA's Fermi Space Te…