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Temperature of apparent natural ball lightning obtained by examination of the spectra

Tingting An, Ping Yuan, Jianyong Cen et al., 2022. Physics of Plasmas 29(11), 113503.

Re-analyses the 2012 spectra: stable luminosity with a periodic oscillation; soil lines (Si I, Fe I, Ca I) give most of the light while air lines (N I, O I) carry the oscillation; mean temperatures of 8,750 K from O I, 4,330 K from Si I, 4,600 K from Fe I and 2,700 K from the continuum, suggesting a hotter energy-source core.

MYS0D40A0KP2QRS · mystery · click to copyMBall lightningArticledoi: 10.1063/5.0098329Checked against the original0

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The temperature structure inferred from the spectra.

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An, T., Yuan, P., Cen, J., Xue, S., Wan, R., Deng, H., Liu, G., & Wang, X. (2022). Temperature of apparent natural ball lightning obtained by examination of the spectra. Physics of Plasmas 29(11), 113503. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0098329
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