Space Weather: From solar origins to risks and hazards evolving in time

N Buzulukova, B Tsurutani - Frontiers in Astronomy and Space …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Space Weather is the portion of space physics that has a direct effect on humankind. Space
Weather is an old branch of space physics that originates back to 1808 with the publication …

Heavenly lights: An exploratory review of auroral ecosystem services and disservices

JD Broome, D Cook, B Davíðsdóttir - Ecosystem Services, 2024 - Elsevier
Auroral ecosystem services (ES) is a subject that has not yet been formally addressed in the
expansive ecosystem services literature. This study conducts a systematic literature review …

Risks for life on habitable planets from superflares of their host stars

M Lingam, A Loeb - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We explore some of the ramifications arising from superflares on the evolutionary history of
Earth, other planets in the solar system, and exoplanets. We propose that the most powerful …

East Asian observations of low-latitude aurora during the Carrington magnetic storm

H Hayakawa, K Iwahashi, H Tamazawa… - Publications of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A magnetic storm around 1859 September 2, caused by a so-called Carrington flare, was
the most intense in the history of modern scientific observations, and hence is considered to …

The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zūqnīn

H Hayakawa, Y Mitsuma, Y Fujiwara… - Publications of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
People have probably been watching the sky since the beginning of human history.
Observers in pre-telescopic ages recorded anomalous events, which now provide uniquely …

Records of sunspots and aurora candidates in the Chinese official histories of the Yuán and Míng dynasties during 1261–1644

H Hayakawa, H Tamazawa, Y Ebihara… - Publications of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Records of observations of sunspots and auroras in pre-telescopic historical documents
provide useful information about past solar activity both in long-term trends and short-term …

A candidate auroral report in the Bamboo Annals, indicating a possible extreme space weather event in the early 10th century BCE

MA van der Sluijs, H Hayakawa - Advances in Space Research, 2023 - Elsevier
Historical auroral reports extend our knowledge of solar eruptions and long-term solar
variability in the millennial time scale beyond the chronological coverage of instrumental …

Do the Chinese astronomical records dated AD 776 January 12/13 describe an auroral display or a lunar halo? A critical re-examination

FR Stephenson, DM Willis, H Hayakawa, Y Ebihara… - Solar physics, 2019 - Springer
The enhancement of carbon-14 in tree rings around AD 774/775 has generated wide
interest in solar activity at that time. The historical auroral records have been examined …

A great space weather event in February 1730

H Hayakawa, Y Ebihara, JM Vaquero, K Hattori… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
Aims. Historical records provide evidence of extreme magnetic storms with equatorward
auroral extensions before the epoch of systematic magnetic observations. One significant …

Response of aurora candidates in the Chinese official histories to the space climate during 511–1876

PH Lee, JY Liu - Earth, Planets and Space, 2023 - Springer
Continuous observations at specified locations and chronicling of astronomical phenomena
provide a good opportunity to study ancient space weather. There are 248 white, 125 red …