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The paper shows the recurrence and cross recurrence plots of three time series, concerning data of the solar activity. The data are the sunspot number and the values of solar radio flux at 10.7 cm and of solar total irradiance, which are…

Popular Physics · Physics 2008-04-14 Amelia Sparavigna

The recent paucity of sunspots and the delay in the expected start of Solar Cycle 24 have drawn attention to the challenges involved in predicting solar activity. Traditional models of the solar cycle usually require information about the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-05 Mercedes T. Richards , Michael L. Rogers , Donald St. P. Richards

The Mount Wilson Ca HK survey revealed magnetic activity variations in a large sample of solar-type stars with timescales ranging from 2.5 to 25 years. This broad range of cycle periods is thought to reflect differences in the rotational…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-01 T. S. Metcalfe , P. G. Judge , S. Basu , T. J. Henry , D. R. Soderblom , M. Knoelker , M. Rempel

Probably, the long-term monitoring of the solar atmosphere started in Italy with the first telescopic observations of the Sun made by Galileo Galilei in the early $17^{\mathrm{th}}$ century. His recorded observations and science results, as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-07 S. L. Guglielmino , I. Ermolli , P. Romano , F. Zuccarello , F. Giorgi , M. Falco , R. Piazzesi , M. Stangalini , M. Murabito , M. Ferrucci , A. Mangano

The relative number of sunspots represents the longest evidence describing the level of solar activity. As such, its use goes beyond solar physics, e.g. towards climate research. The construction of a single representative series is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-12-07 Michal Švanda , Martina Pavelková , Jiří Dvořák , Božena Solarová

The study of the differential rotation in the chromosphere of the Sun is of significant importance as it provides valuable insights into the rotational behaviour of the solar atmosphere at higher altitudes and the coupling mechanism between…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Dibya Kirti Mishra , Srinjana Routh , Bibhuti Kumar Jha , Subhamoy Chatterjee , Dipankar Banerjee

We present joint observations of the Sun by the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) and the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS). The observations were made of a solar active region on 2015 December 18 as part of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-30 T. S. Bastian , G. Chintzoglou , B. De Pontieu , M. Shimojo , D. Schmit , J. Leenaarts , M. Loukitcheva

Unlike other stars, the surface of the Sun can be spatially resolved to a high degree of detail. But the Sun can also be observed as if it was a distant star. The availability of solar disk-resolved and disk-integrated spectra offers an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-27 Alexei Pevtsov , Luca Bertello , Brian Harker , Mark Giampapa , Andrew Marble

Relative variations in the number of sunspots and sunspot groups in activity cycles have been analyzed based on data from the Kislovodsk Mountain Astronomical Station and international indices. The following regularities have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-20 A. G. Tlatov

Although the sunspot-number series have existed since the mid-19th century, they are still the subject of intense debate, with the largest uncertainty being related to the "calibration" of the visual acuity of individual observers in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-03 I. G. Usoskin , G. A. Kovaltsov , M. Lockwood , K. Mursula , M. Owens , S. K. Solanki

We investigated the Korean records of naked-eye sunspot observations and found an implication of periodicity of about 200-year. Adding the Chinese records we showed that the historical naked-eye sunspot observations have the similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-25 Kim Chol-jun , Kim Jik-su

The solar F10.7 index is has been a reliable and sensitive activity index since 1947. As with other indices, it has been showing unusual behavior in the Cycle 23/24 minimum. The origins of the solar microwave flux lie in a variety of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-03-24 Leif Svalgaard , Hugh S. Hudson

It is very important to forecast the future solar activity due to its effect on our planet and near space. Here, we employ the new version of the sunspot number index (version 2) to analyse the relationship between the solar maximum…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 V. M. S. Carrasco , J. M. Vaquero , M. C. Gallego

We study the radiative emission of various types of solar features, such as quiet Sun, enhanced network, plage, and bright plage regions, identified on filtergrams taken in the Ca II K line. We analysed fulldisk images obtained with the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 I. Ermolli , S. Criscuoli , H. Uitenbroek , F. Giorgi , M. P. Rast , S. K. Solanki

The solar activity displays variability and periodic behaviours over a wide range of timescales, with the presence of a most prominent cycle with a mean length of 11 years. Such variability is transported within the heliosphere by solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-17 R. Reda , L. Giovannelli , T. Alberti

We analyze the effect of solar features on the variability of the solar irradiance in three different spectral ranges. Our study is based on two solar-cycles' worth of full-disk photometric images from the San Fernando Observatory, obtained…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Dora Preminger , Gary Chapman , Angela Cookson

Detailed models of the solar cycle require information about the starting time and rise time as well as the shape and amplitude of the cycle. However, none of these models includes a discussion of the variations in the length of the cycle,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael L. Rogers , Mercedes T. Richards , Donald St. P. Richards

The observed variability of the cosmic-ray intensity in the interplanetary space is driven by the evolution of the Sun's magnetic activity over its 11-year quasiperiodical cycle. Investigating the relationship between solar activity indices…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-13 Nicola Tomassetti , Bruna Bertucci , Emanuele Fiandrini

Accurate information on long-term variations in solar irradiance, important for understanding the solar influence on Earth's climate, cannot be derived from direct irradiance measurements due to the comparatively short lifetimes of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-04-23 Theodosios Chatzistergos , Natalie A. Krivova , Sami K. Solanki , Kok Leng Yeo

Sunspot numbers form a comprehensive, long-duration proxy of solar activity and have been used numerous times to empirically investigate the properties of the solar cycle. A number of correlations have been discovered over the 24 cycles for…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Yaming Yu , David A. van Dyk , Vinay L. Kashyap , C. Alex Young