Source mechanisms of terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes

By Joseph R. Dwyer. 2008

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics

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High-Energy Atmospheric Physics: Terrestrial Gamma-Ray Flashes and Related Phenomena (2012, background): “In contrast, Dwyer (2003, 2007, 2008) and Babich et al. (2005) have shown that relativistic feedback is often applicable inside thunderclouds, limiting the electric field and runaway electron avalanche multiplication that may be achieved.”
A closer examination of terrestrial gamma‐ray flash‐related lightning processes (2010, result): “Recently, a theoretical calculation by Dwyer [2008] suggested that the peak current associated with TGF ionization would be 2 kA for a source at 15 km, which is comparable to our peak current observations.”
Terrestrial gamma‐ray flashes in the Fermi era: Improved observations and analysis methods (2013, background): “Relativistic feedback may be the process that distinguishes TGFs from other high-energy photon emission by thunderstorms, causing the extreme intensities and short timescale of TGFs [Dwyer, 2003, 2008].”
Energy and fluxes of thermal runaway electrons produced by exponential growth of streamers during the stepping of lightning leaders and in transient luminous events (2011, background): “0148‐0227/11/2010JA016260 JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH, VOL. 116, A03315, doi:10.1029/2010JA016260, 2011 A03315 1 of 14 2006; Dwyer, 2008; Grefenstette et al., 2008; Shao et al., 2010; Smith et al., 2010].”
First results on terrestrial gamma ray flashes from the Fermi Gamma‐ray Burst Monitor (2010, background): “…lightning, or in the fields above the cloud after a lightning discharge [Fishman et al., 1994; Roussel‐Dupré and Gurevich, 1996; Lehtinen et al., 1999; Inan and Lehtinen, 2005; Dwyer and Smith, 2005; Milikh et al., 2005;Williams et al., 2006; Carlson et al., 2007; Babich et al., 2007; Dwyer, 2008].”
Lightning mapping observation of a terrestrial gamma‐ray flash (2010, result): “The production of high energy photons from leader propagation is qualitatively consistent with theory [Moss et al., 2006; Dwyer, 2008] and ground observations [Moore et al.”