GEOPHYSICAL VARIABLES AND BEHAVIOR .80. PERIODICITIES AND ENERGETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A STROBE-LIGHT LUMINOSITY DURING A GEOMAGNETIC STORM

Authors
PERSINGER MA HART B THOMAS AW
Citation
Ma. Persinger et al., GEOPHYSICAL VARIABLES AND BEHAVIOR .80. PERIODICITIES AND ENERGETIC CHARACTERISTICS OF A STROBE-LIGHT LUMINOSITY DURING A GEOMAGNETIC STORM, Perceptual and motor skills, 82(2), 1996, pp. 683-688
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology, Experimental
Journal title
Perceptual and motor skills → ACNP
ISSN journal
00315125
Volume
82
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
683 - 688
Database
ISI
SICI code
0031-5125(1996)82:2<683:GVAB.P>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
A videotape of a ''strobe-light'' luminosity that occurred in northern Ontario for several minutes during the evening of 6 October, 1931, at the lime of a geomagnetic storm, was analyzed frame by frame. Brightn ess of the flashes decreased over the time of the observation. The int erflicker intervals displayed phase-shifted periodicities that would b e compatible with a rotating electromagnetic dipole and with the obser vations of the witnesses. The time of the occurrence and the dynamics of the luminosity were consistent with the predictions of the tectonic strain hypothesis.