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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…

We present a catalog that we named MODEST containing depth-dependent information on the atmospheric conditions inside sunspot groups of all types. The catalog is currently composed of 942 observations of 117 individual active regions with…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-07-17 J. S. Castellanos Durán , N. Milanovic , A. Korpi-Lagg , B. Löptien , M. van Noort , S. K. Solanki

The sunspot position from Greenwich Photoheliographic Results (GPR), US Air Force Solar Optical Observing Network and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (USAF/NOAA), and Debrecen Photoheliographic Data (DPD) data bases in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-20 Domagoj Ruždjak , Roman Brajša , Davor Sudar , Ivica Skokić , Ivana Poljančić Beljan

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

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

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

Context. Solar activity, dominated by the 11-year cyclic evolution, has been observed directly since 1610. Before that, indirect cosmogenic proxy data are used to reconstruct it over millennia. Recently, the precision of radiocarbon…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-22 Ilya Usoskin , Sami K. Solanki , Natalie A. Krivova , Theodosis Chatzistergos

The rise and fall in the number of sunspots have served as a lynchpin in many investigations on solar dynamics. Arising from magnetic disturbances in the sun, variations in sunspot numbers have helped define a solar cycle of around eleven…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-06-27 Reynan L. Toledo , Reinabelle Reyes , Christopher C. Bernido

The Maunder Minimum (1645-1715 approximately) was a period of very low solar activity and a strong hemispheric asymmetry, with most of sunspots in the southern hemisphere. In this paper, two data sets of sunspot latitudes during the Maunder…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-27 J. M. Vaquero , J. M. Nogales , F. Sánchez-Bajo

The automated detection of solar features is a technique which is relatively underused but if we are to keep up with the flow of data from spacecraft such as the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, then such techniques will be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fraser Watson , Lyndsay Fletcher

Samuel Heinrich Schwabe made 8486 drawings of the solar disk with sunspots in the period from November 5, 1825 to December 29, 1867. We have measured sunspot sizes and heliographic positions on digitized images of these drawings. A total of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 R. Arlt , R. Leussu , N. Giese , K. Mursula , I. G. Usoskin

The Sun experienced a period of unprecedented activity during the 20th century, now called the Modern Maximum (MM). The decay of the MM after cycle 19 has changed the Sun, the heliosphere, and the planetary environments in many ways.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-14 K. Mursula , A. A. Pevtsov , T. Asikainen , I. Tähtinen , A. R. Yeates

Sunspots are dark spots on the solar surface associated with strong magnetic fields. The number, area, and brightness of sunspots are supposed to reflect the intensity of the solar magnetic fields and are often used as proxies for their…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 K. Georgieva , B. Kirov , Yu. A. Nagovitsyn

The aim of the present study is to show the varying asymmetries during the decay of sunspot groups. The source of input data is the SoHO/MDI-Debrecen Database (SDD) sunspot catalog that contains the magnetic polarity data for time interval…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-02-02 Judit Muraközy

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

Long-lived (>20 days) sunspot groups extracted from the Greenwich Photo- heliographic Results (GPR) are examined for evidence of decadal change. The problem of identifying sunspot groups which are observed on consecutive solar rotations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-27 R. Henwood , S. C. Chapman , D. M. Willis

The study of solar active longitudes has generated a great interest in the recent years. In this work we have used an unique continuous sunspot data series obtained from Kodaikanal observatory and revisited the problem. Analysis of the data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-01-25 Sudip Mandal , Subhamoy Chatterjee , Dipankar Banerjee

The total solar fluxes at 1, 2, 3.75, and 9.4 GHz were observed continuously from 1957 to 1994 at Toyokawa, and from 1994 until now at Nobeyama, Japan with the current Nobeyama Radio Polarimeters. We examined the multi-frequency and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-18 M. Shimojo , K. Iwai , A. Asai , S. Nozawa , T. Minamidani , M. Saito

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

In this article, we present the results of the surveys on sunspots and auroral candidates in Rikkokushi, Japanese Official Histories from the early 7th century to 887 to review the solar and auroral activities. In total, we found one…

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