Development of a Method for Recovery of the Energy Spectra
of Precipitating Electrons from the Data of Measurements
in the Atmosphere

Makhmutov, V. S.; Maurchev, E. A.; Bazilevskaya, G. A.; Mironova, I. A.

doi:10.31857/S0016794023600564

PII

10.31857/S0016794023600564-1

DOI

10.31857/S0016794023600564

Publication type

Status

Published

Authors

V. S. Makhmutov

Affiliation:
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (National Research University)
Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS)

E. A. Maurchev

Affiliation:
Pushkov Institute of Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Propagation of Radio Waves. Russian Academy of Sciences (IZMIRAN)
Polar Geophysical Institute

G. A. Bazilevskaya

Affiliation: Lebedev Physical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (LPI RAS)

I. A. Mironova

Affiliation: St. Petersburg State University

Volume/ Edition

Volume 63 / Issue number 5

Pages

638-643

Abstract

Regular measurements of fluxes of charged particles in the Earth’s atmosphere conducted by the Lebedev Physical Institute (LPI) made it possible to register since 1963 more than 500 cases of precipitation of energetic electrons in the northern polar latitudes. The obtained experimental data represent the world’s only database on the precipitation of electrons registered directly in the Earth’s atmosphere. Primary precipitating electrons are absorbed in the upper layers of the atmosphere. However, the fluxes of secondary photons generated by them can penetrate deep into the atmosphere, sometimes to heights of ~20 km, which are accessible for balloon measurements by the Lebedev Physical Institute. This paper presents a new technique for reconstructing the energy spectrum of precipitating electrons developed on the basis of the Monte Carlo simulation of the processes of electron propagation in the atmosphere. The applicability of the technique to the accumulated experimental data is shown, and new results are presented for individual events recorded in the atmosphere.

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Date of publication

01.09.2023

Year of publication

2023

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