INVESTIGADORES
HANSEN Patricia Maria
artículos
Título:
Catching Elves with the Pierre Auger Observatory.
Autor/es:
THE PIERRE AUGER COLLABORATION (P HANSEN PERTENECE A LA COLABORACIÓN AUGER)
Revista:
EOS TRANSACTIONS - AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION
Editorial:
EOS
Referencias:
Año: 2020 p. 1 - 12
ISSN:
0096-3941
Resumen:
The Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina was not designed to catch elves, but in recent years it has been doing exactly that. Through a bit of serendipity, we discovered that the world's largest cosmic ray detector provides new capabilities to observe rare, ring-shaped emissions of ultraviolet (UV) and visible light above the thunderstorms. Studying these elves, short for emissions os light and very low frequency perturbations due to electromagnetic puse sources, could reveal new insights into the physics and effects of strong lighting, including lightning of the highest energy.
