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The BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory detected brief, hard gamma-ray flashes from directions below the local horizon. The participant report describes at least a dozen events, time profiles and locations, with confirmation by another instrument on the same observatory.
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Scientific scope
The report connects some event directions with weather systems but notes a shortage of concurrent weather observations; the thunderstorm-discharge origin and emission mechanism were still speculative. Its altitude estimate is an early inference, not an established universal lower bound. Same-spacecraft instrumental confirmation is distinct from independent ground-based attribution.
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G J Fishman; P N Bhat; R Mallozzi; J M Horack; T Koshut; C Kouveliotou; G N Pendleton; C A Meegan; R B Wilson; W S Paciesas; S J Goodman; H J Christian
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Terrestrial gamma-ray flashes observed from orbit
The BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory detected brief, hard gamma-ray flashes from directions below the local horizon. The participant report describes at least a dozen events, time profiles and locations, with confirmation by another instrument on the same observatory.
Scientific scope
The report connects some event directions with weather systems but notes a shortage of concurrent weather observations; the thunderstorm-discharge origin and emission mechanism were still speculative. Its altitude estimate is an early inference, not an established universal lower bound. Same-spacecraft instrumental confirmation is distinct from independent ground-based attribution.
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This is a source-linked WRS catalogue note. A full explanatory guide and independent scientific reconstruction have not been completed for this entry. Read the identified original work for its complete narrative and arguments.
People and systems
G J Fishman; P N Bhat; R Mallozzi; J M Horack; T Koshut; C Kouveliotou; G N Pendleton; C A Meegan; R B Wilson; W S Paciesas; S J Goodman; H J Christian
These are the listed authors of the cited contribution sources. Paper authorship does not quantify individual effort. An incomplete list is explicitly marked; same names are not automatically merged.