Balloon-Borne Instrumentation for Detection of Gamma-ray Glows from Lightning


Mahdi Bagheri1, Christopher Francis Francis Sterpka2, Joseph Dwyer3, Ningyu Liu4, Derrek Perham1, Kyle Morman1, Mark Widholm5, Christopher Bancroft6, Jason Legere6, Peter F. Bloser6, Matthew Austin7, Mathieu N. Plaisir8, Amitabh Nag7, Shahab Arabshahi9, Jason Chiappa10, Steven M Lazarus10, Michael E Splitt10 and Hamid K Rassoul11, (1)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (2)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (3)University of New Hampshire, Department of Physics and Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (4)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Department of Physics and Astronomy & Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (5)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, United States, (6)University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, (7)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (8)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Aerospace, Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (9)JPL/NASA/Caltech, Pasadena, CA, United States, (10)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Ocean Engineering and Sciences, Melbourne, FL, United States, (11)Florida Institute of Technology, Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Melbourne, United States