Earliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia

The astronomical diaries from Babylonia (ADB) are excellent sources of information of natural phenomena, including astronomical ones, in pre-Christ era because it contains the record of highly continuous and systematic observations. In this article, we present results of a survey of aurora-like phen...

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Autores principales: Hayakawa, Hisashi, Mitsuma, Yasuyuki, Ebihara, Yusuke, Kawamura, Akito Davis, Miyahara, Hiroko, Tamazawa, Harufumi, Isobe, Hiroaki
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Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28003792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40623-016-0571-5
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author Hayakawa, Hisashi
Mitsuma, Yasuyuki
Ebihara, Yusuke
Kawamura, Akito Davis
Miyahara, Hiroko
Tamazawa, Harufumi
Isobe, Hiroaki
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Mitsuma, Yasuyuki
Ebihara, Yusuke
Kawamura, Akito Davis
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Tamazawa, Harufumi
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description The astronomical diaries from Babylonia (ADB) are excellent sources of information of natural phenomena, including astronomical ones, in pre-Christ era because it contains the record of highly continuous and systematic observations. In this article, we present results of a survey of aurora-like phenomena in ADB, spanning from BCE 652 to BCE 61. We have found nine records of aurora-like phenomena. Philological and scientific examinations suggest that five of them can be considered as likely candidate for aurora observations. They provide unique information about the solar and aurora activities in the first millennium BCE. [Figure: see text]
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spelling pubmed-51278952016-12-19 Earliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia Hayakawa, Hisashi Mitsuma, Yasuyuki Ebihara, Yusuke Kawamura, Akito Davis Miyahara, Hiroko Tamazawa, Harufumi Isobe, Hiroaki Earth Planets Space Full Paper The astronomical diaries from Babylonia (ADB) are excellent sources of information of natural phenomena, including astronomical ones, in pre-Christ era because it contains the record of highly continuous and systematic observations. In this article, we present results of a survey of aurora-like phenomena in ADB, spanning from BCE 652 to BCE 61. We have found nine records of aurora-like phenomena. Philological and scientific examinations suggest that five of them can be considered as likely candidate for aurora observations. They provide unique information about the solar and aurora activities in the first millennium BCE. [Figure: see text] Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2016-11-29 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5127895/ /pubmed/28003792 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40623-016-0571-5 Text en © The Author(s) 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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Hayakawa, Hisashi
Mitsuma, Yasuyuki
Ebihara, Yusuke
Kawamura, Akito Davis
Miyahara, Hiroko
Tamazawa, Harufumi
Isobe, Hiroaki
Earliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia
title Earliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia
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title_short Earliest datable records of aurora-like phenomena in the astronomical diaries from Babylonia
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5127895/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28003792
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40623-016-0571-5
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