The most powerful blow of the known universe comes from known Gamma-Ray Bursts – even if they don’t make fun of the odd blizzings of the same breathe of electromagnetic and black holes.
We’re tired of some of these events Since the 1960sand it is still used to help us Better understand about Galaxy Superclustersbut a certain kind of Gamma-Ray Burstt remains a mystery. It’s called a terrestrial Gamma-ray Flash (TGF), and it explodes inside the storms of WORLD Hundred feet are above our heads.
Yuuki Wada, a professor of Osaka University in Japan, studied TGFs for many years. He’s the lead Author on a new study that examines the mysterious relationship between tgfs and lightning bolts – and, according to this study, scientists have observed a tgf synchronized with a lightning discharge that arose from a collision of leaders, coming from opposite Directions.
“Tgfs is one of the strongest natural events in the air,” Wada told Space.com. Wada’s work focuses on the odd energy of lightning lightning and thunderstorms.
To Gather Data About Lightning For Study, the team traveled two hours north of Osaka to the Seaside City of Kanazawa, located in Ishikawa Prefecture on the Northern Coast of Honshu, Japan’s main Island.
“We are preparing a network of observation around Towers on Television in Kanazawa,” Wada said. Researchers use a “state-of-the-art sensor setup” to be found optical, radio frequency and radiation of high energy.
Multi-sensor observations they make are a world first, senior author Harufumi Tsuciya As In a statement, and that combination of sensors helped them learn more about the mechanism for TGFs.
However, conducting research for study is difficult – and Wada says it should be a little lucky – while study depends on observing lightning actions. “Lightning is hard to predict now,” Wada said. “So, there is a risk of conducting intensive observations because of limited detection in sections.”
“There is a risk we don’t find,” Wada added. “It’s fine, we see a TGF across the network.”
Gamma-ray flashes in Thunderstorms
Scientists know the vaggles with short tgfs, as well as for longer gamma rocks, which can last from the minutes. But thunderstorms still hold their part of mysteries.
Strong air waves in storms can cause air and water to shoot up easily. If this happens, ice crystals start colliding within air currents, causing them to bring out the electric field of lightning.
As scientists think that, under certain circumstances, TGFs from lightning discharges during storms, they still do not understand exactly the relationship between the two.
“TGFs are mostly found in satellites, and a detail of how the lightning of lightning stains the gamma rays remains a mystery,” Wada said. “Our observations based on the ground gives us an explanation to find out tgfs.”
Using sensors in transmission towers, researchers captured a snapshot of lightning-leaving on two lanes. A passage comes from thunder and drops to a transmission tower. The other passage climbed in the opposite direction.
Researchers noticed TGF before two trailing paths dominate and make a more concentrated electric field that has made researchers driven by air.
One second contains a million microseconds. The team recorded the first photon of TGF 31 microseconds before the intervals met. The whole blow lasts 20 microseconds after the paths form a lightning lightning.
This new study followed the previous job ordered by TGFs from many scientific organizations, including the NASA and European Space Agency (ESA). In August 2023, NASA pilots fly to storms Rider on a high-altitude science plane to gather data in TGFs.
In May 2019, Esa did The first hour picture of a TGFFrom a thunderstorm of the island of Borneo, in Southeast Asia. To study TGFs, they use a special observatory on the international space station.
The job to understand TGFs away from completion. “The connection between lightning and TGF is not clear,” Wada said. “That’s why we keep on this study.”
“We refer to winter storms in Japan,” he added. “Because they have unusual features compared to other storms, such as low cloud bases, we look forward to many mysteries to solve Japan’s observations.”
The study Published on May 21 in Journal Science Sciasa.
