Superior mirages of simple appearance are occasionally observed over distances exceeding 70 km. These mirages cannot be explained in terms of standard textbook models; rather, they are shown to arise from fairly complex atmospheres. Two observations of different types, observed at Resolute Bay, Canada, are presented. The first is the basic three-image mirage in which one inverted and one erect ...

We explain the origin of the Kondo mirage seen in recent quantum corral Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) experiments with a scattering theory of electrons on the surfaces of metals. Our theory combined with experimental data provides the first direct observation of a single Kondo atom phase shift. The Kondo mirage observed at the empty focus of an elliptical quantum corral is shown to arise ...

Superior mirages of unusual brightness are occasionally observed. Two such cases, photographed over the frozen surface of Lake Winnipeg, Canada, are documented. Visually, these mirages appear as featureless bright barriers far out on the lake. They are just images of the lake ice, yet the luminance in one case was 2.5 times (in the other, 1.7 times) the luminance of the ice surface in front of ...

Infrared Search and Track (IRST) systems are important to the surface Navy for the detection of low-flying missile threats. Infrared signals propagating within the marine atmospheric surface layer are frequently distorted by strong vertical fluxes. One particular distortion that occurs commonly is the subrefractive mirage. During subrefractive mirage conditions, an imaging sensor or camera will...

A careful adjudication of the connectionist-logicist clash in A1 and cognitive science seems to disclose that it is a mirage.