TARANIS XGRE and IDEE detection capability of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and associated electron beams

Sarria, David; Lebrun, Francois; Blelly, Pierre-Louis; Chipaux, Remi; Laurent, Philippe; Sauvaud, Jean-Andre; Prech, Lubomir; Devoto, Pierre; Pailot, Damien; Baronick, Jean-Pierre; Lindsey-Clark, Miles

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-239-2017

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-239-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-6-239-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 6, issue 2

Research article

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13 Jul 2017

Research article |

| 13 Jul 2017

TARANIS XGRE and IDEE detection capability of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes and associated electron beams

David Sarria, Francois Lebrun, Pierre-Louis Blelly, Remi Chipaux, Philippe Laurent, Jean-Andre Sauvaud, Lubomir Prech, Pierre Devoto, Damien Pailot, Jean-Pierre Baronick, and Miles Lindsey-Clark

Data sets

The response matrices of Fermi GBM detectors NASA https://fermi.gsfc.nasa.gov/ssc/data/analysis/scitools/gbmrspgen.html

The response matrix of the RHESSI instrument SCIPP UCSC EDU http://scipp.ucsc.edu/~dsmith/tgflib_public/

The V2.3.2014 gridded satellite lightning data NASA LIS/OTD Science Team https://ghrc.nsstc.nasa.gov/home/

Short summary

The TARANIS spacecraft will be launched at the end of 2018. It is one of the first dedicated to the study of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes (TGF) and associated electrons (TEB), produced by thunderstorms. We present two of the six instruments on board the TARANIS spacecraft: a gamma-ray and energetic electron detector (XGRE) and an electron detector (IDEE). We compare them to other instruments that have already detected TGF and TEB, and use them to estimate the detection rate of TARANIS.