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The rotational profile of the Sun is considered to be one of the key inputs in a solar dynamo model. Hence, precise and long-term measurements of this quantity is important for our understanding of solar magnetism and its variability. In…

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Long-term sunspot observations are key to understand and predict the solar activities and its effects on the space weather.Consistent observations which are crucial for long-term variations studies,are generally not available due to…

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With the exponential growth in data volume, especially in recent decades, the demand for data processing has surged across all scientific fields. Within astronomical datasets, the combination of solar space missions and ground-based…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Mohsen Javaherian , Zahra Eskandari

Digital images of Chinas maps play a crucial role in map detection, particularly in ensuring national sovereignty, territorial integrity, and map compliance. However, there is currently no publicly available dataset specifically dedicated…

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The paper presents the results of the analysis of the geometric characteristics of sunspots for the period of 19-24 cycles of activity. The shape of sunspots was studied on the basis of the method of normalization of images of sunspots to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-09-07 Andrey Tlatov

The application of data visualization in public art attracts increasing attention. In this paper, we present the design and implementation of a visualization method for sunlight data collected over a long period of time with an industrial…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-05 Yifan Wang , Nan Li , Suxuan Jiang , Jinlong Xu , Qi Wang , Shaomin Shen , Ning Ding

Sunspot observations with telescopes in 18th century were carried out in Japan as well. One of these sunspot observations is recorded in an account called Sansaizusetsu narabini Kansei irai Jissoku Zusetsu (Charts of Three Worlds and…

Catalogs of the Zurich Observatory contain positional information on sunspots, prominences and faculae in late 19th and early 20th centuries. This database is given in handwritten tabular form and was not systematically analysed earlier. It…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 Egor Illarionov , Rainer Arlt

We have reconstructed the sunspot group count, not by comparisons with other reconstructions and correcting those where they were deemed to be deficient, but by a re-assessment of original sources. The resulting series is a pure solar index…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 Leif Svalgaard , Kennuth H. Schatten

Aims. In this paper, we aim to study the time dependence of sunspot group areas in a large sample composed of various databases spanning over 130 years, used state-of-the-art statistical methods. Methods. For a carefully selected but…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 Emese Forgács-Dajka , László Dobos , István Ballai

Observing and counting sunspots constitutes one of the longest-running scientific experiment, with first observations dating back to Galileo and the invention of the telescope around 1610. Today the sunspot number (SN) time series acts as a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-22 Sophie Mathieu , Véronique Delouille , Laure Lefèvre , Christian Ritter , Rainer von Sachs

Ancient China recorded a wealth of astronomical observations, notably distinguished by the inclusion of empirical measurements of stellar observations. However, determining the precise observational epochs for these datasets poses a…

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When studying the history of mathematical symbols, one finds that the development of mathematical symbols in China is a significant piece of Chinese history; however, between the beginning of mathematics and modern day mathematics in China,…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2015-11-26 Fang Li , Yong Zhang

We review some applications of the method of electronic searching for historical observations of sunspots and aurorae in the Chinese text corpus by Hayakawa et al. etc. However, we show strong shortcomings in the digital search technique as…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-11-27 D. L. Neuhaeuser , R. Neuhaeuser , J. Chapman

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

Sunspot numbers provide the longest continuous record of solar activity and remain a key index for heliophysical research and space-weather applications. Standard sunspot determination relies on visual inspection and algorithmic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-25 Fabian C. Quintero-Pareja , Diederik A. Montano-Burbano , Santiago Quintero-Pareja , D. Sierra-Porta

Extending the knowledge about the properties of solar cycles into the past is essential for understanding the solar dynamo. This paper aims at estimating areas of sunspots observed by Schwabe in 1825-1867 and at calculating the tilt angles…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-02 V. Senthamizh Pavai , R. Arlt , M. Dasi-Espuig , N. Krivova , S. Solanki

Heliographic coordinates are used to identify the positions of solar features, especially the sunspot groups on the Sun's surface. Tracking the positions of sunspot groups provides information about solar rotation and the movement behavior…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 H. Cakmak

In the era of big data astronomy, next generation telescopes and large sky surveys produce data sets at the TB or even PB level. Due to their large data volumes, these astronomical data sets are extremely difficult to transfer and analyze…

The Schwabe (~11 yr) value for the annual sunspot number is sometimes uncritically applied to other measures of solar activity, direct and indirect, including the 10.7 cm radio flux, the inflow of galactic cosmic rays, solar flare…

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