Radio Spectrum Measurements of Artificial Ball Lightning
and Testing the Hypothesis on Its Plasmochemical Nature

V. V. Kopeikin

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

e-mail: kopeikin@izmiran.ru

Received April 27, 2012; in final form, September 19, 2013

Abstract—Spectral measurements of radiowaves emitted by artificial ball lightning are presented. The mea-
surements 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-oscil-
lator of high-voltage pulses in the radio range.

DOI: 10.1134/S001679321401006X


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