Title :
First VLF detections of ionospheric disturbances due to Soft Gamma Ray Repeater SGR J1550–5418
Author :
Chakrabarti, Sandip Kumar ; Mondal, Sushanta Kumar
Author_Institution :
S.N. Bose Nat. Centre for Basic Sci., Kolkata, India
Abstract :
We report the detection of sudden ionospheric disturbances (SIDs) due to a Soft Gamma Ray Repeater (SGR) SGR J1550-5418. This detection was made with receiving stations of Indian Centre for Space Physics which were monitoring Very Low Frequency signals (VLFs) from the VTX transmitter located near the southern tip of Indian sub-continent. This positive detections add to the list of a handful of similar detections of other GRBs and SGRs throughout the world.
Keywords :
gamma-ray sources (astronomical); ionospheric disturbances; ionospheric techniques; Indian Centre for Space Physics; SGR J1550-5418; VLF detections; VTX transmitter; Very Low Frequency signals; ionospheric disturbances; soft gamma ray repeater; Earth; Gamma ray bursts; Ionosphere; Monitoring; Physics; Repeaters; Satellites;
Conference_Titel :
General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
Conference_Location :
Istanbul
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5117-3
DOI :
10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050926
