Double TGFs and optical pulses observed by ASIM
- 1University of Bergen, Birkeland Centre for Space Science, Physics and Technology, Bergen, Norway (nikolai.ostgaard@uib.no)
- 2National Space Institute, Technical University of Denmark, Denmar
- 3Duke University, North Carolina, US
- 4School of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei, Anhui, P. R. China
- 5University of Valencia, Spain
- 6Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Glorieta de la Astronomia, Grenada, Spain
Atmosphere Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) has now observed more than 1000 Terrestrila Gamma-ray falshes (TGFs) since the launch in 2018. ASIM has two payloads, the Modular X- and Gamma-ray Sensor (MXGS) and the Modular Multi-Spectral Imaging Assembly (MMIA). MXGS consists of two detector layers, one pixelated detector in the low energy range (50 keV to 400 keV) and another in the high energy range (300 keV to >30 MeV), with temporal resolution of 1µs and 28 ns, respectively. MMIA has three photometers (337 nm, 180-230 nm, 777 nm) and two cameras (337 nm and 777 nm). During nighttime we observe both the TGFs and the lightning that produced them. Multiple and double TGFs separated by 1-2 ms have frequently been observed by ASIM. In this paper we present three events of double TGFs. All of them are associated with optical pulses from a hot leader (777 nm), and the first and second pulses come from the same location, indicating that the double TGFs are produced by the same leader as it propagates upward.
How to cite: Ostgaard, N., Mezentsev, A., Marisaldi, M., Sarria, D., Ullaland, K., Yang, S., Genov, G., Neubert, T., Chanrion, O., Christiansen, F., Cummer, S., Lu, G., Reglero, V., and Luque, A.: Double TGFs and optical pulses observed by ASIM , EGU General Assembly 2022, Vienna, Austria, 23–27 May 2022, EGU22-3382, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu22-3382, 2022.
