The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zuqnin
The earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet from the Syriac Chronicle of Zuqnin
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叙利亚祖克宁编年史中最早的极光和双尾彗星图画
DOI：
10.1093/pasj/psw128
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发表时间：
2017
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
and H. Isobe
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作者：
Hayakawa;H.;Y. Mitsuma;Y. Fujiwara;A. D. Kawamura;R. Kataoka;Y. Ebihara;S. Kosaka;K. Iwahashi;H. Tamazawa;and H. Isobe
人类可能从有史以来就一直在观察天空。天文学家在望远镜出现之前就已经记录到了异常事件，这些天文记录为现代科学家提供了独一无二的宝贵信息。带有图画的记录特别有用，因为在望远镜出现之前，不知道这种现象的物理性质的观察者所记录的口头表达往往是模棱两可的。然而，在历史文献中，具体可确定日期的事件的图画比口头记录要少得多。因此，在本文中，我们展示了可能最早的可确定日期的极光和双尾彗星的手稿Zuqn的编年史，叙利亚编年史到775/776 CE解释他们的性质。它们不仅提供了阿米达周围地区的历史事实，而且还提供了关于由于极端空间天气事件和掠日彗星的存在而进行的低纬度极光观测的信息。
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 Observers in pre-telescopic ages recorded anomalous events and these astronomical records in the historical documents provide uniquely valuable information for modern scientists. Records with drawings are particularly useful, as the verbal expressions recorded by pre-telescopic observers, who did not know the physical nature of the phenomena, are often ambiguous. However, drawings for specific datable events in the historical documents are much fewer than the verbal records. Therefore, in this paper, we show the possible earliest drawings of datable auroras and a two-tail comet in a manuscript of the Chronicle of Z\=uqn\=in, a Syriac chronicle up to 775/776 CE to interpret their nature. They provide not only the historical facts in the realm around Amida but also information about low-latitude aurora observations due to extreme space weather events and the existence of sun-grazing comets.