Observed emission rates in sprite streamer heads

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Jun 2007

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007georl..3411105s&link_type=abstract

Geophysical Research Letters, Volume 34, Issue 11, CiteID L11105

Physics

44

Atmospheric Processes: Atmospheric Electricity, Atmospheric Processes: Lightning, Atmospheric Processes: Mesospheric Dynamics, Atmospheric Processes: Middle Atmosphere Dynamics (0341, 0342), Atmospheric Processes: Radiative Processes

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Sprite observations at 10,000 fps have shown tendrils and branches to be formed by bright streamer heads moving at ~107 m/s. The streamer heads typically brighten as they move up or down, often saturating the detector. We present here inferred emission rates. The streamer heads are presumably smaller than our 140 m spatial resolution and, therefore, they have to be treated as point sources. The optical emissions are assumed to be dominated by the N2 1P band and comparing with stars in the images we find total emission rates in individual streamer heads ranging from 4 1021 to 3 1024 photons/s. For a 25 m streamer head the range of average brightness would be 9 108-5 1011 R. Alternatively, using a volume emission rate of 8 1011 photons/cm3/s the size range would be 10 to 100 m.

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