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ASIM - Fermi - AGILE simultaneous observation of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes

Authors :
Martino Marisaldi
Andrey Mezentsev
David Sarria
Anders Lindanger
Nikolai Østgaard
Torsten Neubert
Victor Reglero
Pavlo Kochkin
Nikolai Lehtinen
Carolina Maiorana
Chris Alexander Skeie
Ingrid Bjørge-Engeland
Kjetil Ullaland
Georgi Genov
Freddy Christiansen
Hugh Christian
Samer Al Nussirat
Michael Briggs
Alessandro Ursi
Marco Tavani
Publication Year :
2020
Publisher :
Copernicus GmbH, 2020.

Abstract

The Atmosphere Space Interaction Monitor (ASIM) mission onboard the International Space Station is the first mission specifically dedicated to the observation of Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGF) and Transient Luminous Events (TLE). ASIM, together with the Fermi and AGILE satellites, are the only three currently operating missions capable to detect TGFs from space. Depending on orbital parameters, pairs of these missions periodically get closer than few hundreds kilometers, observing the same region on the Earth surface for up to several tens of seconds. This offers the unique chance to observe the same TGF from two different viewing angles. Such observations allow to probe the TGF production geometry and possibly put constraints on production models and electric field geometry at the source.Here we present four TGFs detected by ASIM and simultaneously detected by Fermi (three events) or AGILE (one event) in the period June 2018 - November 2019. We present location data, light curves, and possible constraints to emission geometry based on coupled observations and Monte Carlo simulations.

Details

Database :
OpenAIRE
Accession number :
edsair.doi...........958b4a02855c17f122363968c6440710
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-12804