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Sunspots are obvious observable manifestations of the toroidal magnetic field generated through the dynamo in the convection zone. They appear in different sizes, having a wide distribution in their area. We analyse the sunspot group area…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-02-10 Bidya Binay Karak , Soumya Mishra , Anu Sreedevi

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

We applied automatic identification of sunspot umbrae and penumbrae to daily observations from the Helioseismic Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) to study their magnetic flux (B) and area (A). The results…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-09-03 Andrey G. Tlatov , Alexei A. Pevtsov

The appearance of dark sunspots over the solar photosphere is not considered to be symmetric between the northern and southern hemispheres. Among the different conclusions obtained by several authors, we can point out that the North-South…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Leonardo F. G. Batista , Thiago M. Santiago , Paulo C. F. da Silva Filho , Cleo V. Silva , Daniel B. de Freitas

The rotation of sunspots of 2 yr in two different solar cycles is studied with the data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on board the \it Solar Dynamics Observatory \rm and the Michelson Doppler Imager instrument on board the \it…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-29 Jianchuan Zheng , Zhiliang Yang , Kaiming Guo , Haimin Wang , Shuo Wang

Using Greenwich and SOON sunspot group data during the period 1874 -- 2005, we find that the sums of the areas of the sunspot groups in $0^\circ$ -- $10^\circ$ latitude-interval of the Sun's northern hemisphere and in the time-interval,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 J. Javaraiah

The comparative analysis for 1324 measurements of the corresponding sunspot magnetic fields with B > 2.5 kG (according to Crimean data) obtained at Crimean and Mt. Wilson observatories from 2010 to 2017 has been carried out. It has been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-31 Yu. T. Tsap , V. A. Perebeynos , A. V. Borisenko , N. I. Lozitska , N. I. Shtertser , G. G. Motorina , A. I. Kuleshova

The decay of sunspot groups is a relatively unknown field since most studies have focused mainly on the decay of sunspots or sunspot groups, but only on small samples. As an extension of the recent work of \citet{2020ApJ...892..107M} which…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-02-24 Judit Muraközy

The distribution of magnetic fields of positive and negative polarities over the surface of the Sun was studied. Synoptic maps of the photospheric magnetic field (NSO Kitt Peak, 1978--2016) were used for the analysis. In the time-latitude…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-20 E. S. Vernova , M. I. Tyasto , D. G. Baranov

High degree solar mode frequencies as measured by ring diagrams are known to change in the presence of the strong magnetic fields found in active regions. We examine these changes in frequency for a large sample of active regions analyzed…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Charles S. Baldner , Richard S. Bogart , Sarbani Basu

Sunspots are the standard measure of solar magnetic activity, which are also used to estimate solar spectral irradiance over centennial time scales. However, because of the lack of homogeneous, century-long spectral measurements, the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-27 Kalevi Mursula

Sunspots are the most important indicator of the magnetic activity on the solar surface during a cycle. Every sunspot group is formed and shaped by the magnetic field of the Sun. Hence, the magnetic field intensity shows itself as the size…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-12 Hikmet Çakmak

The work is devoted to the study of periodic structures in the magnetic field of the photosphere. The polarity of the Sun's magnetic fields shows cyclicity with periods of 1-3 years, which is possibly due to quasi-biennial variations that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-08 Elena Vernova , Marta Tyasto , Dmitrii Baranov

The evolution of the photospheric magnetic field during the declining phase and minimum of Cycle 23 and the recent rise of Cycle 24 are compared with the behavior during previous cycles. We used longitudinal full-disk magnetograms from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-28 Gordon Petrie

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

Solar magnetic activity is expressed via variations of sunspots and active regions varying on different timescales. The most accepted is an 11-year period supposedly induced by the electromagnetic solar dynamo mechanism. There are also some…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-19 Valentina V. Zharkova , Irina Vasilieva , Simon Shepherd , Elena Popova

The historical record of sunspot areas is a valuable and widely used proxy of solar activity and variability. The Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) regularly measured this and other parameters between 1874 and 1976. After that time records…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Balmaceda , S. K. Solanki , N. Krivova , S. Foster

We study the asymmetric distribution of weak photospheric magnetic field values in the two hemispheres separately using synoptic maps from SDO/HMI, SOLIS/VSM and WSO during solar cycles 21-24. We calculate the weak-field asymmetry (shift)…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Tibebu Getachew , Ilpo Virtanen , Kalevi Mursula

The present paper reviews results derived from statistical studies on solar activity indices. The prolonged minimum phase of cycle 23 raised the question of peculiarities inherent in cycle 23. The most important solar activity index is the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-03 M. Temmer

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