First High-speed Video Camera Observations of a Lightning Flash Associated with a Downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash
Abstract
In this paper, we present the first high-speed video observation of a cloud-to-ground lightning flash and its associated downward-directed Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF). The optical emission of the event was observed by a high-speed video camera running at 40,000 frames per second in conjunction with the Telescope Array Surface Detector, Lightning Mapping Array, interferometer, electric-field fast antenna, and the National Lightning Detection Network. The cloud-to-ground flash associated with the observed TGF was formed by a fast downward leader followed by a very intense return stroke peak current of -154 kA. The TGF occurred while the downward leader was below cloud base, and even when it was halfway in its propagation to ground. The suite of gamma-ray and lightning instruments, timing resolution, and source proximity offer us detailed information and therefore a unique look at the TGF phenomena.
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@article{arxiv.2205.05115,
title = {First High-speed Video Camera Observations of a Lightning Flash Associated with a Downward Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash},
author = {R. U. Abbasi and M. M. F. Saba and J. W. Belz and P. R. Krehbiel and W. Rison and N. Kieu and D. R. da Silva and Dan Rodeheffer and M. A. Stanley and J. Remington and J. Mazich and R. LeVon and K. Smout and A. Petrizze and T. Abu-Zayyad and M. Allen and Y. Arai and R. Arimura and E. Barcikowski and D. R. Bergman and S. A. Blake and I. Buckland and B. G. Cheon and M. Chikawa and T. Fujii and K. Fujisue and K. Fujita and R. Fujiwara and M. Fukushima and G. Furlich and N. Globus and R. Gonzalez and W. Hanlon and N. Hayashida and H. He and K. Hibino and R. Higuchi and K. Honda and D. Ikeda and N. Inoue and T. Ishii and H. Ito and D. Ivanov and H. Iwakura and A. Iwasaki and H. M. Jeong and S. Jeong and C. C. H. Jui and K. Kadota and F. Kakimoto and O. Kalashev and K. Kasahara and S. Kasami and S. Kawakami and K. Kawata and I. Kharuk and E. Kido and H. B. Kim and J. H. Kim and J. H. Kim and S. W. Kim and Y. Kimura and I. Komae and Y. Kubota and V. Kuzmin and M. Kuznetsov and Y. J. Kwon and K. H. Lee and B. Lubsandorzhiev and J. P. Lundquist and H. Matsumiya and T. Matsuyama and J. N. Matthews and R. Mayta and I. Myers and S. Nagataki and K. Nakai and R. Nakamura and T. Nakamura and T. Nakamura and Y. Nakamura and A. Nakazawa and E. Nishio and T. Nonaka and H. Oda and S. Ogio and M. Ohnishi and H. Ohoka and Y. Oku and T. Okuda and Y. Omura and M. Ono and A. Oshima and S. Ozawa and I. H. Park and M. Potts and M. S. Pshirkov and J. Remington and D. C. Rodriguez and C. Rott and G. I. Rubtsov and D. Ryu and H. Sagawa and N. Sakaki and T. Sako and N. Sakurai and K. Sato and T. Seki and K. Sekino and P. D. Shah and Y. Shibasaki and N. Shibata and T. Shibata and J. Shikita and H. Shimodaira and B. K. Shin and H. S. Shin and D. Shinto and J. D. Smith and P. Sokolsky and B. T. Stokes and T. A. Stroman and K. Takahashi and M. Takamura and M. Takeda and R. Takeishi and A. Taketa and M. Takita and Y. Tameda and K. Tanaka and M. Tanaka and Y. Tanoue and S. B. Thomas and G. B. Thomson and P. Tinyakov and I. Tkachev and H. Tokuno and T. Tomida and S. Troitsky and R. Tsuda and Y. Tsunesada and S. Udo and T. Uehama and F. Urban and D. Warren and T. Wong and M. Yamamoto and K. Yamazaki and K. Yashiro and F. Yoshida and Y. Zhezher and Z. Zundel},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.05115},
year = {2023}
}