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 30–200 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.