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A Study of Atmospheric Radiation Flashes in the Near-Ultraviolet Region Using the TUS Detector aboard the Lomonosov Satellite

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Tracking Ultraviolet Setup (TUS) detector is a detector of ultraviolet (UV) radiation of the atmosphere in the wavelength range of 300–400 nm (near-ultraviolet) with high sensitivity (tens of photons emitted within the solid angle of 10–4 sr in 0.8 μs), which operated for a year and a half aboard the Lomonosov satellite. The TUS telescope had a multipurpose operational program, which made it possible to detect UV flashes from the shortest ones created by extensive air showers generated by cosmic rays to long ones, up to 1 s, created by meteors. Among these various phenomena, most often are flashes from lightning strikes, both directly creating a glow and causing the development of secondary discharges in the atmosphere, in the upper atmosphere and in the ionosphere. These discharges differ in both nature and phenomenology—in particular, they have different durations and luminosities.

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This study was supported by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation, project no. RFMEFI60419X0237.

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  1. Skobeltsyn Institute of Nuclear Physics, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    B. A. Khrenov, G. K. Garipov, M. Yu. Zotov, P. A. Klimov, M. I. Panasyuk, V. L. Petrov, S. A. Sharakin, A. V. Shirokov & I. V. Yashin

  2. Faculty of Physics, Moscow State University, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    M. I. Panasyuk

  3. Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, 141980, Dubna, Moscow oblast, Russia

    V. M. Grebenyuk, A. A. Grinyuk, M. V. Lavrova, A. V. Tkachenko & L. G. Tkachev

  4. Space Regatta Consortium, 141021, Korolev, Moscow oblast, Russia

    A. A. Botvinko, O. A. Saprykin, A. N. Senkovsky & A. E. Puchkov

  5. Vernadsky Institute of Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119991, Moscow, Russia

    O. A. Saprykin

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Khrenov, B.A., Garipov, G.K., Zotov, M.Y. et al. A Study of Atmospheric Radiation Flashes in the Near-Ultraviolet Region Using the TUS Detector aboard the Lomonosov Satellite. Cosmic Res 58, 317–329 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0010952520050056

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