Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Geophysical Research Letters
Abstract
We analyze the count rates of two terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) with the broadband magnetic fields (1 to 300 kHz) produced by the simultaneous lightning processes. The microsecond-scale absolute time accuracy for these data, combined with independent geolocations of the source lightning, enable this analysis with higher accuracy than previously possible. In both events, fast discharge-like processes occur within several tens of microseconds of the gamma-ray generation, although not with a consistent relationship. The magnetic field data also show a slower signal component produced by a source current that in both events mirrors the gamma-ray count rate closely in shape and time. This indicates electromagnetic radiation directly associated with the gamma-ray generation process and thus provides a new means for probing the internal physics of this enigmatic phenomenon.
DOI
10.1029/2011GL048099
Publication Date
2011
Recommended Citation
Cummer, Steven A.; Lu, Gaopeng; Briggs, Michael S.; Connaughton, Valerie; Xiong, Shaolin; Fishman, Gerald Jerry; and Dwyer, Joseph R., "The Lightning-TGF Relationship On microsecond Ttimescales" (2011). Aerospace, Physics, and Space Science Faculty Publications. 499.
https://repository.fit.edu/apss_faculty/499