• DocumentCode
    1921058
  • 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
  • fYear
    2011
  • fDate
    13-20 Aug. 2011
  • Firstpage
    1
  • Lastpage
    4
  • 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;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, 2011 XXXth URSI
  • Conference_Location
    Istanbul
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5117-3
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/URSIGASS.2011.6050926
  • Filename
    6050926