Light Flashes Observed by Astronauts on Skylab 4
- 30 May 1975
- journal article
- other
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 188 (4191) , 928-930
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.188.4191.928
Abstract
Two dedicated light flash observing sessions were conducted by one of the crewmen during the Skylab 4 mission. Analyses of his observations reveal a strong correlation between flash frequency and primary cosmic-ray flux, and an even stronger correlation between flash frequency and the South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA) region of the inner belt trapped radiation. Calculations indicate that an all-proton inner belt probably cannot produce the observed SAA flash rate, and they suggest that there may exist a previously unobserved inner belt flux of multiply charged nuclei.Keywords
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