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Records of sunspot and aurora activity during 581-959 CE in Chinese official histories in the periods of Suí, Táng, and the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms
Harufumi Tamazawa, Akito Davis Kawamura, Hisashi Hayakawa +3
Recent studies of radioisotopes in tree rings or ice cores suggest that extreme space weather events occurred in the pre-telescope age. Observational records of naked-eye sunspots…
Earliest Datable Records of Aurora-like Phenomena in the Astronomical Diaries from Babylonia
Hisashi Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Mitsuma, Yusuke Ebihara +4
The Astronomical Diaries from Babylonia (ADB) are an excellent source of information of natural phenomena, including astronomical ones, in pre-Christ era because it contains the re…
The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn
Hisashi Hayakawa, Yasuyuki Mitsuma, Yasunori Fujiwara +7
People have probably been watching the sky since the beginning of human history. Observers in pre-telescopic ages recorded anomalous events and these astronomical records in the hi…
East Asian Observations of Low Latitude Aurora during the Carrington Magnetic Storm
Hisashi Hayakawa, Kiyomi Iwahashi, Harufumi Tamazawa +6
The magnetic storm around 1859 September 2, caused by so-called Carrington flare, was the most intense in the history of modern scientific observations, and hence is considered to…
Aurora Candidates from the Chronicle of Qīng Dynasty in Several Degrees of Relevance
Akito D. Kawamura, Hisashi Hayakawa, Harufumi Tamazawa +2
We present the result of the survey of sunspots and auroras in , the draft chronicle of dynasty, for the p…
"Unusual Rainbow and White Rainbow" A new auroral candidate in oriental historical sources
Hisashi Hayakawa, Hiroaki Isobe, Akito Davis Kawamura +3
Solar activity has been recorded as auroras or sunspots in various historical sources. These records are of much importance for investigating both long-term solar activities and ex…