Analyses of the ISUAL Secondary TLEs
Abstract
From July 2004 to December 2012, ISUAL (Imager of Sprites and Upper Atmospheric Lightning) has captured over 24,000 TLEs (transient luminous events) in the Earth's atmosphere, including 35 particularly interesting events. These events exhibit complex generating sequences, which typically start with a sprite and then other TLEs soon follows. In this report, the follow-up events are termed as secondary TLEs. According to their features, they are classified as the secondary sprites (3 events), the secondary jets (27 events) and the secondary gigantic jets (5 events; [2]). In this work, the characteristics of these secondary TLEs are analyzed in detail, and the possible generating scenarios are proposed.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- September 2013
- Bibcode:
- 2013EPSC....8..469L