Short increases of the fluxes of electrons with energies > 0.08 MeV at low-latitude ( L < 2) regions of near-Earth space

Details Short increases of the fluxes of electrons with energies > 0.08 MeV at low-latitude ( L < 2) regions of near-Earth space Short increases of the fluxes of electrons with energies > 0.08 MeV at low-latitude ( L < 2) regions of near-Earth space

Feb 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007cosre..45...16k&link_type=abstract

Cosmic Research, Volume 45, Issue 1, pp.16-26

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

94.20.Vv

Scientific paper

We present the characteristics of short (duration less than 1 min) increases of the counting rate of electrons with energies >0.08 MeV observed in low-latitude ( L < 2.0) regions of near-Earth space in the course of the GRIF experiment on the Spektr module of the Mir orbital station. The measurements were carried out using a set of instruments including X-ray and gamma-ray spectrometers, as well as detectors of electrons, protons, and nuclei with large and small geometrical factors, which allowed one to detect the fluxes of charged particles both in the region of the Earth’s radiation belts and in regions close to the geomagnetic equator. As a result of more than 1.5 years of observation, it is demonstrated that short increases in the intensity of electrons of subrelativistic energies are detected not only in the regions of the near-Earth space known as “precipitation zones” (1.7 < L < 2.5), but in high-latitude regions (up to the geomagnetic equator, L < 1.1) as well. Two types of increases of the electron counting rate are found: either fairly regular increases repeating on successive orbits or increases local in time. The latter type of increases can be caused by a short enhancement of electron flux on a given drift shell. The results of our measurements have shown that the duration of the detected increases in intensity can be rather short, as little as 20 30 s. Therefore, in the case of large amplitudes, such increases of the counting rate of electrons can imitate astrophysical events of the type of cosmic gamma-ray bursts in the detectors of hard X-ray and gamma radiation.

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