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Herein we adopt a multi-scale dynamical spectral analysis technique to compare and study the dynamical evolution of the harmonic components of the overlapping ACRIMSAT/ACRIM3, SOHO/VIRGO and SORCE/TIM total solar irradiance (TSI) records…

General Physics · Physics 2013-11-28 Nicola Scafetta , Richard C. Willson

Many observational records critically rely on our ability to merge different (and not necessarily overlapping) observations into a single composite. We provide a novel and fully-traceable approach for doing so, which relies on a multi-scale…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-09 Thierry Dudok de Wit , Greg Kopp , Claus Fröhlich , Micha Schöll

Total solar irradiance reconstructed between 1978 and 2003 using solar surface magnetic field distributions is compared with three composites of total solar irradiance measurements. A good correspondence is found with the total solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Wenzler , S. K. Solanki , N. A. Krivova

Rotation is a prominent feature of the Sun, and it plays a crucial role in the generation and dynamic evolution of solar magnetic fields. The daily composite time series of Ca II K plage areas from 1907 February 1 to 2023 December 31 is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-18 N. B. Xiang , X. H. Zhao , L. H. Deng , F. Y. Li , M. Wan , S. Y. Qi

In this last Paper III additional evidences that the solar high energetic particles radiation with energies higher as 100 MeV (the solar cosmic rays SCR) is an very important component for the "Sun- climate" relationship are given (see also…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-14 Boris Komitov

Solar activity in the past millennia can only be reconstructed from cosmogenic radionuclide records in terrestrial archives. However, because of the diversity of the proxy archives, it is difficult to build a homogeneous reconstruction.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-25 Chi Ju Wu , I. G. Usoskin , N. Krivova , G. A. Kovaltsov , M. Baroni , E. Bard , S. K. Solanki

The solar activity, which is driven by a variable magnetic field, exhibits changes along several time scales, the 11-year being the most known. In addition to the SunSpot Number, the Ca II K index and the Mg II index are indices widely…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-28 Raffaele Reda , Valentina Penza

The magnetic cycle of the Sun, as manifested in the cyclic appearance of sunspots, significantly influences our space environment and space-based technologies by generating what is now termed as space weather. Long-term variation in the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-10-27 Dibyendu Nandy

Recently published, precise stellar photometry of 72 Sun-like stars obtained at the Fairborn Observatory between 1993 and 2017 is used to set limits on the solar forcing of Earth's atmosphere of $\pm$ 4.5 W m$^{-2}$ since 1750. This…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-18 P. G. Judge , R. Egeland , G. W. Henry

The irradiance of the Sun is modulated on all time scales. Small-scale solar magnetic elements composed of quiet-Sun network and active region plages contribute to this modulation on solar cycle time scales. The evaluation of their contrast…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-02 Fatima Kahil

Long-term trends in the solar spectral irradiance are important to determine the impact on Earth's climate. These long-term changes are thought to be caused mainly by changes in the surface area covered by small-scale magnetic elements. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 N. Afram , Y. C. Unruh , S. K. Solanki , M. Schuessler , S. K. Mathew

Using data from the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) covering the period from 1995 to 1998, we study the change with solar activity in solar f-mode frequencies. The results are compared with similar changes detected from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 H. M. Antia , Sarbani Basu , J. Pintar , B. Pohl

The space missions MOST, COROT and Kepler are going to provide us with high-precision optical photometry of solar-like stars with time series extending from tens of days to several years. They can be modelled to obtain information on…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. F. Lanza , A. S. Bonomo , M. Rodono'

Comparing solar and stellar brightness variations is hampered by the difference in spectral passbands used in observations as well as by the possible difference in the inclination of their rotation axes from the line of sight. We calculate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-07-01 N. -E. Nèmec , E. Işık , A. I. Shapiro , S. K. Solanki , N. A. Krivova , Y. Unruh

The historical record of sunspot areas is a valuable and widely used proxy of solar activity and variability. The Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) regularly measured this and other parameters between 1874 and 1976. After that time records…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 L. Balmaceda , S. K. Solanki , N. Krivova , S. Foster

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

Magnetic activity of the Sun and other stars causes their brightness to vary. We investigate how typical the Sun's variability is compared to other solar-like stars, i.e. those with near-solar effective temperatures and rotation periods. By…

The global rotational profile of the solar atmosphere and its variation at different layers, although crucial for a comprehensive understanding of the dynamics of the solar magnetic field, has been a subject to contradictory results…

Stellar radial velocities play a fundamental role in the discovery of extrasolar planets and the measurement of their physical parameters as well as in the study of stellar physical properties. We investigate the impact of the solar…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-02 A. F. Lanza , P. Molaro , L. Monaco , R. D. Haywood

Filaments are very common physical phenomena on the Sun and are often taken as important proxies of solar magnetic activities. The study of filaments has become a hot topic in the space weather research. For a more comprehensive…