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Solar cycle is modeled as a forced and damped harmonic oscillator and the amplitudes, frequencies, phases and decay factors of such a harmonic oscillator are estimated by non-linear fitting the equation of sinusoidal and transient parts to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 K M Hiremath

The composite geometry and spectral anisotropy of the solar wind turbulence are very important topics in the investigations of solar wind. In this work, we use the magnetic field and plasma data from Wind spacecraft measured during 1995…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-05-20 Zhan Fa , H. -Q. He

Solar irradiance is considered one of the main natural factors affecting terrestrial climate, and its variations are included in most numerical models estimating the effects of natural versus anthropogenic factors for climate change. Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-25 Katya Georgieva , Yury Nagovitsyn , Boian Kirov

The solar activity in the current, that is, the 24-th, sunspot cycle is analyzed. Cyclic variations in the sunspot number (SSN) and radiation fluxes in various spectral ranges have been estimated in comparison with the general level of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-01 E. A. Bruevich , V. V. Bruevich , G. V. Yakunina

We present solar low-degree rotational splitting values based on a new analysis of Sun-as-a-star observations from the Birmingham Solar Oscillations Network, covering a 16,425-day period from 1976 December 31--2021 December 20 with a duty…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-09-07 Rachel Howe , W. J. Chaplin , Y. P. Elsworth , S. J. Hale , M. B. Nielsen

The activity-related variations in the solar acoustic frequencies have been known for 30 years. However, the importance of the different contributions is still not well established. With this in mind, we developed an empirical model to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-08 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

The evolution of the solar activity comprises, apart from the well-known 11-year cycle, various temporal scales ranging from months up to the secondary cycles known as mid-term oscillations. Its nature deserves a physical explanation. In…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-08-04 D. D. Sokoloff , A. S. Shibalova , V. N. Obridko , V. V. Pipin

The solar wind is highly turbulent, and intermittency effects are observed for fluctuations within the inertial range. By analyzing magnetic field spectra and fourth-order moments, we perform a comparative study of turbulence and…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-02-11 Shiladittya Mondal , Supratik Banerjee , Luca Sorriso-Valvo

The so-called solar cycle is generally characterized by the quasi-periodic oscillatory evolution of the photospheric spots number. This quasi-periodic pattern has always been an intriguing question. Several physical models were proposed to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 Alexis Klutsch , Rubens Freire Ferrero

The daily sunspot numbers of the whole disk as well as the northern and southern hemispheres from January 1, 1945 to December 31, 2010 are used to investigate the temporal variation of the rotational cycle length through the continuous…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. -L. Xie , X. -J. Shi , J. -C. Xu

The total amount of solar irradiance falling on the earth's surface is an important area of study amongst the photo-voltaic (PV) engineers and remote sensing analysts. The received solar irradiance impacts the total amount of generated…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-04-23 Shilpa Manandhar , Soumyabrata Dev , Yee Hui Lee , Yu Song Meng

Long-term observational data have information on the magnetic cycles of active stars and that of the Sun. The changes in the activity of our central star have basic effects on Earth, like variations in the global climate. Therefore…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Z. Kolláth , K. Oláh

In this paper, starting from the updated time series of global temperature anomalies, Ta, we show how the solar component affects the observed behavior using, as an indicator of solar activity, the Solar Sunspot Number SSN. The results that…

Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics · Physics 2015-12-04 Stefano Sello

The level of solar magnetic activity, as exemplified by the number of sunspots and by energetic events in the corona, varies on a wide range of time scales. Most prominent is the 11-year solar cycle, which is significantly modulated on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-26 Robert Cameron , Manfred Schüssler

Activity-related variations in the solar oscillation properties have been known for 30 years. However, the relative importance of the different contributions to the observed variations is not yet fully understood. Our goal is to estimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-24 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

The solar spectral irradiance (SSI) depicts the spectral distribution of solar energy flux reaching the top of the Earth's atmosphere. Daily SSI measurements constitute a matrix with spectrally (rows) and temporally (columns) resolved solar…

Applications · Statistics 2026-05-21 Yuxuan Ke , Xianglei Huang , Odele Coddington , Yang Chen

Measurements of the beta decay rates of nuclei have revealed annual periodicities with approximately the same relative amplitude even though the half-lives range over nine orders of magnitude. Here we show that this can be explained if the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2016-09-12 M. J. Mueterthies , D. E. Krause , A. Longman , V. E. Barnes , E. Fischbach

Solar activity affects the whole heliosphere and near-Earth space environment. It has been reported in the literature that the mechanism responsible for the solar activity modulation behaves like a low-dimensional chaotic system. Studying…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 M. Stangalini , I. Ermolli , G. Consolini , F. Giorgi

The analysis of long-term variations of several solar activity indices (AI) since in last 40 years has been performed. We studied the AI which characterize the fluxes from different areas in solar atmosphere. Our consideration of mutual…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-01 E. A. Bruevich , V. V. Bruevich

Long-term modulation of solar differential rotation was studied with data from Mt. Wilson and our original observations during Solar Cycles 16 through 23. The results are: i) The global B-value (i.e. latitudinal gradient of differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-23 Miyoshi Suzuki