• DocumentCode
    1089437
  • Title

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

  • Author

    Peratt, Anthony L. ; McGovern, John ; Qöyawayma, Alfred H. ; Van Der Sluijs, Marinus Anthony ; Peratt, Mathias G.

  • Author_Institution
    Los Alamos Nat. Lab., Los Alamos
  • Volume
    35
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2007
  • Firstpage
    778
  • Lastpage
    807
  • Abstract
    The discovery that objects from the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age carry patterns associated with high-current Z-pinches provides a possible insight into the origin and meaning of these ancient symbols produced by humans. Part I deals with the comparison of graphical and radiation data from high-current -pinches to petroglyphs, geoglyphs, and megaliths. Part I focused primarily, but not exclusively, on petroglyphs of some 84 different morphologies: pictures found in laboratory experiments and carved on rock. These corresponded to mankind´s visual observations of ancient aurora as might be produced if the solar wind had increased (T. Gold) at times between one and two orders of magnitude, millennia ago. Part II focuses on the source of light and its temporal change from a current-increasing Z-pinch or dense-plasma-focus aurora. Orientation and field-of-view data are given as surveyed and contributed from 139 countries, from sites and fields containing several millions of these objects. This information allows a reconstruction of the auroral form presumably associated with extreme geomagnetic storms and shows, based on existent geophysical evidence, plasma flow inward at Earth´s south polar axis.
  • Keywords
    Z pinch; astroarchaeology; aurora; magnetic storms; petrology; rocks; solar wind; solar-terrestrial relationships; Earth south polar axis; dense-plasma-focus aurora; geoglyphs; geomagnetic storms; high-current Z-pinch aurora; megaliths; petroglyphs; plasma flow; solar wind; Earth; Focusing; Gold; Humans; Laboratories; Life members; Magnetohydrodynamics; Morphology; Plasma density; Plasma properties; $Z$-pinch; Archaeoastronomy; aurora; dense plasma focus (DPF); global information systems; magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) instability; petroglyph; plasma; plasma universe;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Plasma Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0093-3813
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TPS.2007.902630
  • Filename
    4287072