Flickering gamma-ray flashes, the missing link between gamma glows and TGFs

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 634; no. 8032; pp. 53 - 56
• Main Authors: Østgaard, N., Mezentsev, A., Marisaldi, M., Grove, J. E., Quick, M., Christian, H., Cummer, S., Pazos, M., Pu, Y., Stanley, M., Sarria, D., Lang, T., Schultz, C., Blakeslee, R., Adams, I., Kroodsma, R., Heymsfield, G., Lehtinen, N., Ullaland, K., Yang, S., Qureshi, B. Hasan, Søndergaard, J., Husa, B., Walker, D., Shy, D., Bateman, M., Bitzer, P., Fullekrug, M., Cohen, M., Montanya, J., Younes, C., van der Velde, O., Krehbiel, P., Roncancio, J. A., Lopez, J. A., Urbani, M., Santos, A., Mach, D.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 03.10.2024; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 639/766; 639/766/400/1106; Aircraft; Atmospheric electricity; Electrons; Gamma ray flashes; Gamma Rays; Humanities and Social Sciences; Leader currents; Lightning; multidisciplinary; Observatories; Radiation; Science; Science (multidisciplinary); Sensors; Storms; Thunderstorms; Time Factors; El Salvador; Mexico

Two different hard-radiation phenomena are known to originate from thunderclouds: terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGFs) 1 and gamma-ray glows 2 . Both involve an avalanche of electrons accelerated to relativistic energies but are otherwise different. Glows are known to last for one to hundreds of sec...