Lab's projects

TUS Ultra high energy cosmic ray detector on-board the Lomonosov satellite

JEM-EUSO Extreme Universe Space Observatory on the Japanese Experiment Module (JEM) of the International Space Station

mini-EUSO (UV atmosphere)

KLYPVE Ultra high energy cosmis ray detector on board the ISS

AURA Detector of UV radiation onboard satellite "VDNH-80"

Pulsating Aurora Imaging System

PAIPS (Pulsating Aurora Imaging Photometers System)

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: Lovozero and Verkhnetulomskaya. 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.

Left: observatories at Kola peninsula for PsA observations equipped with PAIPS photometers. VTL – Verkhnetulomsky observatory, LOZ – Lovozero observatory. Right: schematic view of photometers FOVs. Dashed blue lines indicate individual FOVs of three photodetector modules of the LOZ photometer.

1. Instruments description.
2. Project publications.
3. UV-microbursts.
4. Quik-look data (lightcurves, spectrograms and keograms).
5. Track events.