Atmosphere (Sep 2022)

System of Imaging Photometers for Upper Atmospheric Phenomena Study in the Arctic Region

  • Pavel Klimov,
  • Sergei Sharakin,
  • Alexander Belov,
  • Boris Kozelov,
  • Alexei Murashov,
  • Roman Saraev,
  • Daniil Trofimov,
  • Alexei Roldugin,
  • Vladimir Lubchich

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos13101572
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 10
p. 1572

Abstract

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A Pulsating Aurora Imaging Photometers Stereoscopic System (PAIPS) is suggested and described in the paper. The system is based on two lens telescopes with a matrix of multianode photomultiplier tubes as photodetectors placed in two high latitude observatories of the Polar Geophysical Institute. Telescopes provide simultaneous observations of a large volume of the atmosphere at altitudes in the range 50–100 km with high temporal resolution (up to 2.5 μs) and a spatial resolution of about 2 km. This is a novel system for pulsating aurora study aimed to determine the energies of precipitating electrons responsible for the pulsating aurora occurrence. The system can be used for other atmospheric phenomena studies: meteors, transient luminous events, etc. One telescope has been operating since September 2021 and has measured a variety of optical phenomena.

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