Characteristics for the Occurrence of a High-Current $Z$-Pinch Aurora as Recorded in Antiquity Part II: Directionality and Source

Peratt, Anthony L.; McGovern, J.; Qoyawayma, A.H.; Sluijs, Marinus Anthony van der; Peratt, M.G.

doi:10.1109/tps.2007.902630

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“…A possible relationship between the origin and meaning of symbols found in prehistoric rock art and the occurrence of intense auroral outburst has been proposed based on laboratory experiments (Peratt ; Peratt et al . ; van der Sluijs and Peratt , ).…”

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Variations in Mid-Latitude Auroral Activity During the Holocene*

Korte

Stolze

2014

Archaeometry

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Estimates of the past location of the auroral zone can aid archaeologists in the interpretation of documented light phenomena in the night sky; in particular, during periods without written records and in regions where aurorae are scarce today. Aurora occurrence largely depends on solar activity as well as the tilt and strength of the geomagnetic field. Here, we introduce a tool (AUREST) that visually combines the time-dependent variations of these parameters to provide relative estimates of aurora occurrence in mid-latitude regions of the Northern Hemisphere over the past 10 000 years. Tests against historical aurora observations show good compatibility with AUREST.

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Variations in Mid-Latitude Auroral Activity During the Holocene*

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Stolze

2014

Archaeometry

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“…Space plasma researchers and pulse power engineers have long speculated that the progenitor of intense auroras, protoplanetary and planetary nebula, and supernovae is the Z-pinch, as both display the temporal, morphological, and radiation properties that are found in high-energy-density plasmas produced in the laboratory and in extreme high-current explosive test experiments. On the right is an overlay of 56 radial lines representing 56 twisted pairs of current filaments, as recorded in pinches and the penumbra of the dense plasma focus [1]- [3]. The template lines are centered on the intensely radiating pinch at the center of the nebula.…”

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Special Issue on Space and Cosmic Plasma

Peratt

Eastman

2007

IEEE Trans. Plasma Sci.

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RAVITY was the focus of twentieth-century astrophysics; for the twenty-first century, it will be electromagnetism and plasmas in addition. This emerging paradigm shift is presaged by the rapid pace of discoveries about our own starVthe SunVand its total plasma environment. These discoveries are particularly well marked by the discovery in 1958, at the beginning of the Space Age, of Earth's radiation belt, or Van Allen belts, by Dr. J. A. Van Allen (1914-2006 for whom this Special Issue on Space and Cosmic Plasma is dedicated. Van Allen's discovery and many other discoveries over the past four decades have profoundly changed our view of space environmentsVfrom Bempty[ space to the fullness of space plasmas at all scale lengths. Some examples of these discoveries are the following: 1) in-situ measurements of the properties of plasmas in the magnetospheres, leading to the confirmation of Birkeland field-aligned currents, double-layer acceleration of charged particles, magnetic flux ropes in the ionospheres of planets, and a system of currents in the magnetospheres of the outer planets; 2) discovery of an immense filamentary magnetic fieldaligned plasma structure at the center of our galaxy and the continuing discovery of related multiscale filamentary plasma structures in most astrophysical environments; 3) laboratory experiments duplicating the power laws of electromagnetic radiation from extragalactic sources and confirming that plasma processes are often responsible for the acceleration of charged particles to high energies; 4) the advent and application of multidimensional, relativistic, and fully electromagnetic particle-in-cell simulations to space and cosmic plasma. The goals of this Special Issue of the IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PLASMA SCIENCE are to provide an update on progress in topical areas of the plasma universe and to report on the exchange of knowledge between plasmas of all dimensions in the size hierarchy from new observational, theoretical, experimental, and computational results.Eskimo Nebula, NGC 2392, Hubble Space Telescope Image (credit: NASA). Space plasma researchers and pulse power engineers have long speculated that the progenitor of intense auroras, protoplanetary and planetary nebula, and supernovae is the Z-pinch, as both display the temporal, morphological, and radiation properties that are found in high-energy-density plasmas produced in the laboratory and in extreme high-current explosive test experiments. On the right is an overlay of 56 radial lines representing 56 twisted pairs of current filaments, as recorded in pinches and the penumbra of the dense plasma focus [1]- [3]. The template lines are centered on the intensely radiating pinch at the center of the nebula. The Eskimo Nebula has a distance of 2.9 kly and a radius of approximately 3.4 ly. (A. L. Peratt, Los Alamos National Laboratory).

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“…Concurrent with the burgeoning interest in geomythology, however, the astronomical elements in mythological traditions have enjoyed renewed scholarly attention in recent decades, and ought to be seen as an interdisciplinary exercise in their own right, which forms the natural complement to geomythology. As examples of this direction one could cite Bobrowsky and Rickman's edited volume on the reflexes of comet impacts in human society (2007); Peratt's on-going modelling of a high-energy density aurora in the early Holocene that was recorded in non-figurative petroglyphs, pictographs and geoglyphs around the world, and, arguably, in mythological traditions as well (Peratt, 2003;Peratt et al, 2007); or fresh indications that knowledge of the relative sequence of planets in space as far as Saturn was present in Egypt and Babylonia before the heyday of Greek science, where it may have found expression in the colour scheme of Neo-Babylonian ziggurats (James & Van der Sluijs, 2008). In order to avoid any undesired association of such recent developments with Pan-Babylonianists, it is here proposed that the study of meteorological and astronomical influences on human traditions be referred to as cosmomythology.…”

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