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Variety and classification of TGFs and related events
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
David M. Smith, Heather Mentzer, Ronaldo Rodriguez...
Observations of high-energy radiation from lightning began with upward terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) seen from space by the Burst and Transient...
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The Relativistic Feedback Instability that Produces Gamma-Ray Glow Oscillations and Multi-Pulsed Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Joseph R. Dwyer
Gamma-ray glows and terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) are both produced by strong thunderstorm electric fields that generate relativistic runaway e...
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The first observation of a downward TGF with an azimuthal substructure at the Pierre Auger Observatory
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 10 december 2024
Roberta Colalillo, John Ortberg, Joseph R. Dwyer, ...
The Pierre Auger Observatory, with its 3000 km² area, is the largest detector in the world for studying ultra-high-energy cosmic rays and can now...
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Polarization Reconstruction Accuracy of LOFAR Lightning Data
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Paulina Turekova, Brian Hare, Olaf Scholten, Steve...
The LOFAR radio telescope has a world-leading temporal and spatial resolution when it comes to lightning data. The LOFAR lightning group uses a novel ...
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CASPER Toolflow Based FPGA Design for Lightning Radio Interferometers
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Ningyu Liu, Stephen Horn, Frank D. Lind, Mark A. S...
Broadband radio interferometers have enabled many recent discoveries in the lightning field. As the field pushes to resolve faster lightning processes...
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The Starts of Darts
AGU 2024
atmospheric and space electricity | 09 december 2024
Brian Hare, Olaf Scholten, John Pantuso, Caitano L...
Dart leaders are a poorly understood lightning phenomenon where a current pulse propagates quickly (~10^7 m/s) along a previously established, now dec...
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RIFTS: A Broadband VHF-UHF Interferometer to Study Lightning
ATMOSPHERIC AND SPACE ELECTRICITY QUICK STRIKES ELIGHTNING
atmospheric and space electricity | 13 december 2023
Ningyu Liu, Frank D. Lind, Ivan Dors, Anderson Ste...
Radio Interferometer for Thunderstorm Studies (RIFTS) is a deployable high-performance radio sensor array that is specifically designed to image/map l...
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Distinguishing the production mechanisms of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes
ENERGETIC RADIATION FROM LIGHTNING AND THUNDERSTORMS II POSTER
atmospheric and space electricity | 12 december 2023
Joseph R. Dwyer, Ningyu Liu
Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs), powerful bursts of gamma rays produced within our atmosphere, are associated with a wide range of lightning phen...
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