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

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-14 Boris Komitov , Stefano Sello , Peter Duchlev , Momchil Dechev , Kaloyan Penev , Kostadinka Koleva

The sunspot number data during the past 400 years indicates that both the profile and the amplitude of the solar cycle have large variations. Some precursors of the solar cycle were identified aiming to predict the solar cycle. The polar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Jie Jiang

We use archival daily spot coverage measurements from Howard et al. (1984) to study the rotational modulation of the Sun as though it were a distant star. A quasi-periodic Gaussian process measures the solar rotation period $P_\mathrm{rot}…

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

Local helioseismology has opened new frontiers in our quest for understanding of the internal dynamics and dynamo on the Sun. Local helioseismology reconstructs subsurface structures and flows by extracting coherent signals of acoustic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-07-20 Alexander G. Kosovichev , Junwei Zhao

This study aims to provide further evidence for the potential influence of the global solar magnetic field on localised chromospheric jets, the macrospicules (MS). To find a connection between the long-term variation of properties of MS and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-05-02 T. S. Kiss , R. Erdelyi

We improve the description of the evolution of the Sun's open and total magnetic flux on time scales of years to millenia. In the model employed here the evolution of the solar total and open magnetic flux is computed from the flux emerging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-24 L. E. A. Vieira , S. Solanki

We present the assessment of a diffusion-dominated mean field axisymmetric dynamo model in reproducing historical solar activity and forecast for solar cycle 25. Previous studies point to the Sun's polar magnetic field as an important proxy…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-29 Alejandro Macario-Rojas , Katharine L. Smith , Peter C. E. Roberts

Solar cycle is modeled as a forced and damped harmonic oscillator and the amplitudes, frequencies, phases and decay factors of such a harmonic oscillator are estimated by non-linear fitting the equation of sinusoidal and transient parts to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-12 K M Hiremath

Solar activity is a process driven by many independent but interconnected phenomena. Although the 11-year cycle is the result of operation of the dynamo mechanism, the cause of longer secular variations is not clear. In search of such a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-07 M. M. Katsova , V. N. Obridko , D. D. Sokoloff , N. V. Emelianov

The success of helioseismology is due to its capability to accurately measure the p-mode parameters of the solar eigenmode spectrum, which allow us to infer unique information about the internal structure and dynamics of the Sun. It also…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-14 D. Salabert

Magnetic fields generated in the Sun's interior by the solar dynamo mechanism drive solar activity over a range of time-scales. While space-based observations of the Sun's corona exist only for few decades, direct sunspot observations exist…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-03 Soumyaranjan Dash , Dibyendu Nandy , Ilya Usoskin

Solar magnetic activity shows both smooth secular changes, such as the Grand Modern Maximum, and quite abrupt drops that are denoted as Grand Minima. Direct numerical simulations (DNS) of convection driven dynamos offer one way of examining…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-04-13 Maarit J. Käpylä , Petri J. Käpylä , Nigul Olspert , Axel Brandenburg , Jörn Warnecke , Bidya B. Karak , Jaan Pelt

We attempt to establish links between a summary curve, or modulus summary curve, MSC, of the solar background magnetic field (SBMF) derived from Principal Component Analysis, with the averaged sunspot numbers (SSN). The comparison of MSC…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-12 V. V. Zharkova , I. Vasilieva , S. J. Shepherd , E. Popova

After decades of effort, the solar activity cycle is exceptionally well characterized but it remains poorly understood. Pioneering work at the Mount Wilson Observatory demonstrated that other sun-like stars also show regular activity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-09-01 Travis S. Metcalfe , Jennifer van Saders

Solar activity variations strongly impact the modulation of the flux of low-energy Galactic Cosmic Rays (GCRs) reaching the Earth. The secondary particles, which originate from the interaction of GCRs with the atmosphere, can be revealed by…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-24 C. Taricco , I. Bizzarri , C. Dionese , S. Mancuso

The Sun and Sun-like stars lose angular momentum to their magnetised stellar winds. This braking torque is coupled to the stellar magnetic field, such that changes in the strength and/or geometry of the field modifies the efficiency of this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 Adam J. Finley , Siddhant Deshmukh , Sean P. Matt , Mathew Owens , Chi-Ju Wu

It has been suggested that the deficit in the number of spots on the surface of the Sun between 1790 and 1830, known as the Dalton minimum, contained an extra cycle that was not identified in the original sunspot record by Wolf. Though this…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-23 C. Karoff , F. Inceoglu , M. F. Knudsen , J. Olsen , A. Fogtmann-Schulz

Mapping the large-scale subsurface plasma flow profile within the Sun has been attempted using various methods for several decades. One such flow in particular is the meridional circulation, for which numerous studies have been published.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-23 Aleczander Herczeg , Jason Jackiewicz

The grand minimum in the Sun's activity is a distinctive mode characterized by a magnetic lull that almost completely lacks the emergence of sunspots on the solar surface for an extended duration. The factors driving this transition of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-12-25 Chitradeep Saha , Dibyendu Nandy