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Studies on the periodic variation and the phase relationship between different solar activity indicators are useful for understanding the long-term evolution of solar activity cycle. Here we report the statistical analysis of grouped solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Feng Wang

Sunspots are areas of strong magnetic fields driven by a convective dynamo. Rudolf Wolf devised his Sunspot Number (SN) series to describe its variation with time. Most other solar phenomena vary in concert with SN, in particular the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-15 Leif Svalgaard

We have used semi-synthetic records of emerging sunspot groups based on sunspot number data as input for a surface flux transport model to reconstruct the evolution of the large-scale solar magnetic field and the open heliospheric flux from…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Jie Jiang , Robert H. Cameron , Dieter Schmitt , M. Schuessler

Building a reliable forecast of solar activity is a long-standing problem that requires to accurately describe past and current global dynamics. However, synoptic observations of magnetic fields and subsurface flows became available…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-07-14 Irina N. Kitiashvili

The Kodaikanal Observatory has made synoptic observations of the Sun in white light since 1904, and these images are sketched on the Stonyhurst grids called sun charts. These continuous hand-drawn data sets are used for long-term studies of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-11-30 Belur Ravindra , Partha Chowdhury , Pratap Chandra Ray , Kumaravel Pichamani

The $F_{10.7cm}$ radio flux and the Sunspot Number are the most widely used long-term indices of solar activity. They are strongly correlated, which led to the publication of many proxy relations allowing to convert one index onto the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-09 Frédéric Clette

The emergence and decay of the sunspot groups are important components of the solar dynamo models. There are two different types of studies on the evolution of active regions. One of them is based on fewer data with higher spatial…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-08 Judit Muraközy

We have examined the more than 1100 drawings of the solar disk made by the German astronomy amateur Johann Caspar Staudach during 1749-1799 and counted the spots on each image. Using the modern perception of how to group spots into active…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-06 Leif Svalgaard

A revision is presented of the sunspot observations made by Charles Malapert from 1618 to 1626, studying several documentary sources that include those observations. The revised accounting of the group numbers recorded by Malapert for that…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-18 V. M. S. Carrasco , M. C. Gallego , J. Villalba Álvarez , J. M. Vaquero

We introduce a new method for predicting sunspot number (SSN) that, based on successful back projections, can predict features of the SSN several solar cycles in advance. The method applies Fourier analysis to the annual SILSO SSN record,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-05 Ian Edmonds , Peter Killen

A nine-millennia reconstruction of decadal sunspot numbers derived from 10Be and 14C terrestrial archives for 6755 BC to 1885 AD has been extended to the present using several other messengers (Observed Sunspot Number, Group Number, range…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-10-30 Leif Svalgaard

Sunspot drawings are provided on a regular basis at the Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory, Austria, and the derived relative sunspot numbers are reported to the Sunspot Index Data Center in Brussels. From the daily sunspot drawings, we derived…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Temmer , A. Veronig , A. Hanslmeier

In this work we introduce a new way of binning sunspot group data with the purpose of better understanding the impact of the solar cycle on sunspot properties and how this defined the characteristics of the extended minimum of cycle 23. Our…

The sunspot number (SSN), the total solar irradiance (TSI), a TSI reconstruction, and the solar flare index (SFI), are analyzed for long-range persistence (LRP). Standard Hurst analysis yields $H \approx 0.9$, which suggests strong LRP.…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-06-03 Martin Rypdal , Kristoffer Rypdal

We analyzed the daily sunspot-group data reported by the Greenwich Photoheliographic Results (GPR) during the period 1874-1976 and Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) during the period 1977-2017 and studied North-South asymmetry in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-29 J. Javaraiah

Solar activity has significant impacts on human activities and health. One most commonly used measure of solar activity is the sunspot number. This paper compares three important non-deep learning models, four popular deep learning models,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-05-26 Yuchen Dang , Ziqi Chen , Heng Li , Hai Shu

The main aim of this work is to determine the solar differential rotation by tracing sunspot groups during the period 1964-2016, using the Kanzelh\"ohe Observatory for Solar and Environmental Research (KSO) sunspot drawings and white light…

The combined Greenwich and Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON) sunspot group data during 1874-2013 are analyzed and studied the relatively long-term variations in the annual sums of the areas of sunspot groups in 0-10 deg, 10-20 deg, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 J. Javaraiah

Using SDO/HMI and SDO/AIA data for sunspot groups of the 24th solar cycle, we analyzed magnetic properties and He II 304 emission in leading and following sunspots separately. Simultaneous examination of umbral magnetic properties and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-24 Iu. S. Zagainova , V. G. Fainshtein , V. N. Obridko

The magnetic field inside the sunspot umbra, as observed by the Full-disk MagnetoGraph (FMG) onboard the Advanced Space based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), was found to be experiencing a weakening. To address this issue, we employed a method…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-30 Haiqing Xu , Jiangtao Su , Suo Liu , Yuanyong Deng , Xianyong Bai , Jie Chen , Xiaofan Wang , Xiao Yang , Yongliang Song