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As is well known, Prof. Birkeland has put forward the hypothesis that aurora borealis and magnetic disturbances are due to an “electric radiation” coming from the sun. The numerous observations, partly from the regions near the auroral zone, treated by Birkeland in his work “The Norwegian Aurora Polaris Expedition, 1902–1903”, as well as the theoretical work by Prof. Störmer, have shown that this hypothesis in a very satisfactory way accounts for the characteristic properties of aurora and magnetic disturbances, as well as regards occurrence as with respect to distribution in space relative to the earth.
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VEGARD, L. The Radiation Producing Aurora Borealis. Nature 86, 212–213 (1911). https://doi.org/10.1038/086212a0
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