HR: 1340h
AN: AE33A-0951    [Abstracts]
TI: Joint Observations of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes and Transient Luminous Events with RHESSI and ISUAL
AU: * Grefenstette, B W
EM: brian@physics.ucsc.edu
AF: Physics Department and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, U. C. Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 United States
AU: Smith, D M
EM: dsmith@scipp.ucsc.edu
AF: Physics Department and Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, U. C. Santa Cruz, 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 United States
AU: Frey, H
EM: hfrey@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, U. C. Berkeley, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AU: Mende, S
EM: mende@ssl.berkeley.edu
AF: Space Sciences Laboratory, U. C. Berkeley, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720 United States
AB: One of the many outstanding questions about Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) is whether they are usually -- or ever -- associated with Transient Luminous Events (TLEs) such as sprites and elves. Models of relativistic runaway in a strong DC field might suggest the former, and runaway models invoking strong transient (EMP) fields the latter. We will present preliminary results of a search for simultaneous detection of TGFs and TLEs using data from spots simultaneously covered by the RHESSI satellite (measuring gamma-ray flashes at its subsatellite point) and the ISUAL instrument on FORMOSAT-2 (measuring luminous events from its horizon).
DE: 3304 Atmospheric electricity
DE: 3324 Lightning
SC: Atmospheric and Space Electricity [AE]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005