Feasibility study to observe ionospheric disturbances by airglow monitoring network (AMON-net)

nedeľa 2019‐03‐10 10:30 – 11:00
Šimon Mackovjak
  • Fakulta matematiky, fyziky a informatiky, Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
  • Oddelenie kozmickej fyziky, Ústav experimentálnej fyziky, Slovenská akadémia vied

The thermosphere-ionosphere system is a dynamic environment as it is continuously influenced by the space weather from above and the Earth's atmosphere weather from bellow. The number of various related phenomena create the ionospheric irregularities that affect the signal from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and change the emission of airglow radiation. The aim of our ESA / PECS activity is to investigate the feasibility if the network of relatively cheap and easily operated one-pixel detectors, AMON-net (Mackovjak et al., 2019), could detect the variations of airglow intensities and so to contribute to the monitoring systems of the ionospheric disturbances. During the presentation, the basic idea will be introduced and the actual status of the project will be presented.