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Here we analyze solar activity by focusing on time variations of the number of sunspot groups (SGs) as a function of their modified Zurich class. We analyzed data for solar cycles 2023 by using Rome (cycles 2021) and Learmonth Solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-11-18 A. Kilcik , V. B. Yurchyshyn , V. Abramenko , P. R. Goode , A. Ozguc , J. P. Rozelot , W. Cao

It has recently been claimed that analysis of Greenwich sunspot data over 120 years reveals that sunspot activity clusters around two longitudes separated by 180 degrees (``active longitudes'') with clearly defined differential rotation…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Pelt , J. M. Brooke , M. J. Korpi , I. Tuominen

We construct a new solar cycle phase clock which maps each of the last 18 solar cycles onto a single normalized epoch for the approximately 22 year Hale (magnetic polarity) cycle, using the Hilbert transform of daily sunspot numbers (SSN)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 S. C. Chapman , S. W. McIntosh , R. J. Leamon , N. W. Watkins

In 1965 Paul D. Jose published his discovery that both the motion of the Sun about the center of mass of the solar system and periods comprised of eight Hale magnetic sunspot cycles with a mean period of ~22.37 years have a matching…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-19 Gerald E. Pease , Gregory S. Glenn

The long term study of the Sun is necessary if we are to determine the evolution of sunspot properties and thereby inform modeling of the solar dynamo, particularly on scales of a solar cycle. We aim to determine a number of sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Fraser T. Watson , Lyndsay Fletcher , Stephen Marshall

We analysed the combined data of sunspot groups from Greenwich Photoheliographic Results (GPR) during the period 1874-1976 and Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) during 1977-2017 and determined the monthly mean, annual mean, and 13-month…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-07 J. Javaraiah

The long-term variability of the sunspot cycle, as recorded by the Wolf numbers, are imprinted in different kinds of statistical relations which relate the cycle amplitudes, duration and shapes. This subject always gets a special attention…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. V. Pipin , D. D. Sokoloff , I. G. Usoskin

There is a low frequency of sunspot observations in some years of the 17th and 18th century. In particular, the interval 1777-1795 is one of the periods with scarce observations in the databases. In this note, we report a sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-07-13 F. Domínguez-Castro , J. M. Vaquero

On a centennial timescale, solar activity was quantified based on records of instrumental sunspot observations. This article briefly discusses several aspects of the recent archival investigations of historical sunspot records in the 17th…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-21 Hisashi Hayakawa

Variations of the solar UV irradiance are an important driver of chemical and physical processes in the Earth's upper atmosphere and may also influence global climate. Here we reconstruct solar UV irradiance in the range 115-400 nm over the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-23 N. A. Krivova , S. K. Solanki , T. Wenzler , B. Podlipnik

Recently Pop ({\it Solar Phys.} {\bf 276}, 351, 2012) identified a Laplace (or double exponential) distribution in the number of days with a given absolute value in the change over a day, in sunspot number, for days on which the sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Patrick L. Noble , Michael S. Wheatland

Complex network approaches have been recently developed as an alternative framework to study the statistical features of time-series data. We perform a visibility-graph analysis on both the daily and monthly sunspot series. Based on the…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2015-06-16 Yong Zou , Michael Small , Zonghua Liu , Jürgen Kurths

Temporal variations in the Suns internal velocity field with a periodicity of about 11 years have been observed over the last four decades. The period of these torsional oscillations and their latitudinal propagation roughly coincides with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-22 Sushant S. Mahajan , Dibyendu Nandy , H. M. Antia , B. N. Dwivedi

The subject of this paper is the existence and stability of solar cycles with duration in the range of 20-250 years. Five type of data series are used: 1) The Zurich series (1749-2009), the mean annual International sunspot number Ri; 2)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-27 B. Komitov , S. Sello , P. Duchlev , M. Dechev , K. Penev , K. Koleva

Tilt angles of close to 30,600 sunspots are determined using Mount Wilson daily averaged magnetograms taken from 1974 to 2012, and MDI/SoHO magnetograms taken from 1996 to 2010. Within a cycle, more than 90% of sunspots have a normal…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Jing Li , Roger K. Ulrich

The analysis of the observations of solar activity indexes SSN (NOAA Sunspot Numbers), the radio flux at a wavelength of 10.7 cm (F10.7) and the solar constant (TSI) during the cycles 22 - 24 is presented. We found a decrease of the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-08 E. A. Bruevich , G. V. Yakunina

One of the most robust features of the solar magnetic cycle is that the stronger cycles rise faster than the weaker ones. This is popularly known as the Waldmeier Effect, which is known for more than 80 years. This fundamental feature of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-01 Suyog Garg , Bidya Binay Karak , Ricky Egeland , Willie Soon , Sallie Baliunas

The short-term periodicities of the daily sunspot area fluctuations from August 1923 to October 1933 are discussed. For these data the correlative analysis indicates negative correlation for the periodicity of about 155 days, but the power…

Applications · Statistics 2010-09-17 Ryszarda Getko

The linear relationship between the maximum amplitudes (R$_{max}$) of sunspot cycles and preceding minima (R$_{min}$) is one of the precursor methods used to predict the amplitude of the upcoming solar cycle. In the recent past this method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 K. B. Ramesh , N. Bhagya Lakshmi

The rise and fall in the number of sunspots have served as a lynchpin in many investigations on solar dynamics. Arising from magnetic disturbances in the sun, variations in sunspot numbers have helped define a solar cycle of around eleven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Reynan L. Toledo , Reinabelle Reyes , Christopher C. Bernido