site.btaBulgarian Scientists Study Impact of Solar Activity on Earth from Antarctica

Assistant Professor Dr. Ivaylo Nachev from the Technical University of Sofia is a researcher in Bulgaria's first polar astronomy project. On Livingston Island he has installed scientific measuring equipment designed and built in the Department of Radio Communications and Video Technologies. It is being used to carry out radio observations of the Sun as part of a project studying the impact of solar activity on ionospheric dynamics and high-energy particle fluxes over Antarctica.