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Magnetic activity cycles are an important phenomenon in both the Sun and other stars. The shape of the solar cycle is commonly characterised by a fast rise and a slower decline, but not much attention has been paid to the shape of cycles in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 T. Willamo , T. Hackman , J. J. Lehtinen , M. J. Käpylä , N. Olspert , M. Viviani , J. Warnecke

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

Recent findings of helioseismology as well as advances in direct numerical simulations of global dynamics of the Sun have indicated that in each solar hemisphere the meridional circulation forms the two cells along the in the convection…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 V. V. Pipin , A. G. Kosovichev

We analyse the monthly sunspot group (SG) data for Solar Cycles C8-C23 and calculate the average latitude of the drift path for the northern and southern hemisphere of the Sun. We find that exponential function fits slightly better than the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-27 Jouni J. Takalo

With the assumption of radial motion and uniform longitudinal distribution of coronal mass ejections (CMEs), we propose a method to eliminate projection effects from the apparent observed CME latitude distribution. This method has been…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Song Wenbin , Feng Xueshang , Hu Yanqi

We create a continuous series of daily and monthly hemispheric sunspot numbers (HSNs) from 1874 to 2020, which will be continuously expanded in the future with the HSNs provided by SILSO. Based on the available daily measurements of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Astrid M. Veronig , Shantanu Jain , Tatiana Podladchikova , Werner Poetzi , Frederic Clette

We investigate the phase difference of the sunspot cycles in the two hemispheres and compare it with the latitudinal sunspot distribution. If the north-south phase difference exhibits a long-term tendency, it should not be regarded as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 N. V. Zolotova , D. I. Ponyavin , R. Arlt , I. Tuominen

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

In this work we take advantage of eleven different sunspot group, sunspot, and active region databases to characterize the area and flux distributions of photospheric magnetic structures. We find that, when taken separately, different…

We analyzed the size, intensity, and magnetic field strength of sunspot umbrae to compare the present cycle 24 with the previous one. We used data of the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory and selected…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Christoph Kiess , Reza Rezaei , Wolfgang Schmidt

The sunspots and other solar activity indicators tend to cluster on the surface of the Sun.These clusters very often occur at certain longitudes that persist in time.It is of general interest to find new and simple ways to characterize the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Pelt , M. J. Korpi , I. Tuominen

The Solar Cycle is reviewed. The 11-year cycle of solar activity is characterized by the rise and fall in the numbers and surface area of sunspots. A number of other solar activity indicators also vary in association with the sunspots…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-01 David H. Hathaway

Variations of the sunspot number are important indicators of the solar activity cycles. The sunspot formation is a result of a dynamo process inside the Sun, which is far from being understood. We use simple dynamical models of the dynamo…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-11 I. N. Kitiashvili , A. G. Kosovichev

We compare two candidate nonlinearities for regulating the solar cycle within the Babcock-Leighton paradigm: tilt quenching (whereby the tilt of active regions is reduced in stronger cycles) and latitude quenching (whereby flux emerges at…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-04 Anthony R. Yeates , Luca Bertello , Alexander A. Pevtsov , Alexei A. Pevtsov

We studied the relation between the distribution of sunspot groups and the Gleissberg cycle. As the magnetic field is related to the area of the sunspot groups, we used area-weighted sunspot group data. On the one hand, we confirm the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 E. Forgacs-Dajka , B. Major , T. Borkovits

Using different proxies of solar activity, we have studied the following features of solar cycle. (i) A linear correlation between the amplitude of cycle and its decay rate, (ii) a linear correlation between the amplitude of cycle $n$ and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-08-06 Gopal Hazra , Bidya Binay Karak , Dipankar Banerjee , Arnab Rai Choudhuri

Longitudinal distributions of the photospheric magnetic field studied on the base of National Solar Observatory (Kitt Peak) data (1976 - 2003) displayed two opposite patterns during different parts of the 11-year solar cycle.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-17 E. S. Vernova , M. I. Tyasto , D. G. Baranov

The tilt angle of sunspot groups is crucial in the BL type dynamo. Some studies have shown that the tilt coefficient is anti-correlated with the cycle strength. If the anti-correlation exists, it will be shown to act as an effective…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Qirong Jiao , Jie Jiang , Zi-Fan Wang

The need for reliable predictions of the solar activity cycle motivates the development of dynamo models incorporating a representation of surface processes sufficiently detailed to allow assimilation of magnetographic data. In this series…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-30 Alexandre Lemerle , Paul Charbonneau , Arnaud Carignan-Dugas

Three- and five-minute oscillations of sunspots have different spatial distributions in the solar atmospheric layers. The spatial distributions are crucial to reveal the physical origin of sunspot oscillations and to investigate their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-02-05 Zhengkai Wang , Song Feng , Linhua Deng , Yao Meng