HEG  Lightning and the Ionosphere (HEG)

Friday, January 11  08:20-11:00  Room 245

Session Chairs:  Robert Marshall, Victor Pasko

08:20  HEG-1  (Invited) HIGH-ENERGY ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICS THEORY AND MODELING

Joseph R. Dwyer*, Ningyu Liu, Kevin M. A. Ihaddadene

Physics Department, University of New Hampshire, Durham NH


08:40  HEG-2  (Invited) STUDYING TERRESTRIAL GAMMA-RAY FLASHES WITH FERMI GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR AND LIGHTNING LOCATING SYSTEMS

Bagrat G. Mailyan*1, Amitabh Nag2, Michael S. Briggs1

1The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL
2Florida Institute of technology, Melbourne, FL


09:00  HEG-3  SPRITE STREAMER INITIATION DUE TO IONIZATION OF METALLIC SPECIES AT SPRITE ALTITUDES

Reza Janalizadeh Choobbasti*, Victor P. Pasko

Communications and Space Sciences Laboratory, Department of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania


09:20  HEG-4  PHOTOIONIZATION OF METALLIC SPECIES AT SPRITE ALTITUDES BY FAR-UV EMISSIONS OF LBH BAND SYSTEM OF MOLECULAR NITROGEN

Victor P. Pasko*

Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania


09:40  HEG-5  (Invited) EXPLAINING THE SPECTRUM OF NARROW BIPOLAR EVENTS WITH A SYSTEM OF STREAMERS

Ningyu Liu*1, Joseph Dwyer1, Julia Tilles1, Mark Stanley2, Paul Krehbiel2, William Rison2, Robert Brown3, Jennifer Wilson3

1Department of Physics and Space Science Center (EOS), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH
2Department of Physics, New Mexico Tech, Socorro, NM
3NASA, Kennedy Space Center, FL


10:20  HEG-6  THE RADIO FREQUENCY EMISSION SPECTRUM OF COLLIDING STREAMERS

Jacob H. Koile*1, Ningyu Liu1, Feng Shi2, Joseph R. Dwyer1

1Dept. of Physics, University of New Hampshire, Durham, New Hampshire
2Dept. of Physics, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama


10:40  HEG-7  Investigating Ionospheric Lightning Returns Using the Long Wavelength Array

Joseph B. Malins*1, Kenneth Obenberger2, Gregory Taylor1

1Phyics and Astronomy, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
2Kirtland AFB, Air Force Research Lab, Albuquerque, NM