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Radio spectrum measurements of artificial ball lightning and testing the hypothesis on its plasmochemical nature

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Spectral measurements of radiowaves emitted by artificial ball lightning are presented. The measurements were carried out using two different facilities: a pulsed power generator (PPG) and a three-contour Tesla transformer. The results of these measurements confirm the hypothesis that ball lightning is a self-oscillator of high-voltage pulses in the radio range.

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  1. Pushkov Institute of Terrestrial Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Radiowave Propagation (IZMIRAN), Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Troitsk, Russia

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Original Russian Text © V. V. Kopeikin, 2014, published in Geomagnetizm i Aeronomiya, 2014, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 124–133.

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Kopeikin, V.V. Radio spectrum measurements of artificial ball lightning and testing the hypothesis on its plasmochemical nature. Geomagn. Aeron. 54, 117–126 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S001679321401006X

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