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The hemispheric asymmetry of the sunspot cycle is a real feature of the Sun. However, its origin is still not well understood. Here we perform nonlinear time series analysis of the sunspot area (and number) asymmetry to explore its…

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The long term study of the Sun is necessary if we are to determine the evolution of sunspot properties and thereby inform modeling of the solar dynamo, particularly on scales of a solar cycle. We aim to determine a number of sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-08-23 Fraser T. Watson , Lyndsay Fletcher , Stephen Marshall

Studies on the periodic variation and the phase relationship between different solar activity indicators are useful for understanding the long-term evolution of solar activity cycle. Here we report the statistical analysis of grouped solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 Hui Deng , Ying Mei , Feng Wang

Sizes of the sunspots vary in a wide range during the progression of a solar cycle. Long-term variation study of different sunspot sizes are key to better understand the underlying process of sunspot formation and their connection to the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-26 Sudip Mandal , Dipankar Banerjee

Solar activity has a cyclic nature with the ~11-year Schwabe cycle dominating its variability on the interannual timescale. However, solar cycles are significantly modulated in length, shape and magnitude, from near-spotless grand minima to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-29 Akash Biswas , Bidya Karak , Ilya Usoskin , Eckhard Weisshaar

The Sun exhibits episodic surges of magnetic activity across a range of temporal and spatial scales, the most prominent of which is the 11-ish year modulation of sunspot production. Beside the ~170 (min to max) decadal variation in sunspot…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-21 Scott W. McIntosh , Robert J. Leamon

Forecasting the strength of the sunspot cycle is highly important for many space weather applications. Our previous studies have shown the importance of sunspot number variability in the declining phase of the current 11-year sunspot cycle…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-12-18 Tatiana Podladchikova , Ronald Van der Linden , Astrid M. Veronig

An analysis of the photometric growth and decay rates of sunspots and pores was carried out. According to the \textit{Solar Dynamics Observatory/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager} (SDO/HMI) data for the period 05.2010-03-2025, $\approx…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-06-30 Andrey Tlatov

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

Activity-related variations in the solar oscillation properties have been known for 30 years. However, the relative importance of the different contributions to the observed variations is not yet fully understood. Our goal is to estimate…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-10-24 A. R. G. Santos , M. S. Cunha , P. P. Avelino , W. J. Chaplin , T. L. Campante

The combined Greenwich and Solar Optical Observing Network (SOON) sunspot group data during 1874-2013 are analyzed and studied the relatively long-term variations in the annual sums of the areas of sunspot groups in 0-10 deg, 10-20 deg, and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-03 J. Javaraiah

The observed magnetic field on the solar surface is characterized by a very complex spatial and temporal behavior. Although feature-tracking algorithms have allowed us to deepen our understanding of this behavior, subjectivity plays an…

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}…

The decay of sunspot plays a key role in magnetic flux transportation in solar active regions (ARs). To better understand the physical mechanism of the entire decay process of a sunspot, an {\alpha}-configuration sunspot in AR NOAA 12411…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-01-12 Yang Peng , Zhi-Ke Xue , Xiao-Li Yan , Aimee A. Norton , Zhong-Quan Qu , Jin-Cheng Wang , Zhe Xu , Li-Heng Yang , Qiao-Ling Li , Li-Ping Yang , Xia Sun

The appearance of dark sunspots over the solar photosphere is not considered to be symmetric between the northern and southern hemispheres. Among the different conclusions obtained by several authors, we can point out that the North-South…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-19 Leonardo F. G. Batista , Thiago M. Santiago , Paulo C. F. da Silva Filho , Cleo V. Silva , Daniel B. de Freitas

Unconditional and conditional statistics is used for studying the histograms of magnetic field multi-scale fluctuations in the solar wind near the solar cycle minimum in 2008. The unconditional statistics involves the magnetic data during…

Space Physics · Physics 2015-10-01 Vörös , Z. , M. Leitner , Y. Narita , G. Consolini , P. Kovács , A. Tóth , J. Lichtenberger

We study the behaviour of the van der Pol oscillator when either its damping parameter $\mu$ or its nonlinearity parameter $\xi$ is subject to additive or multiplicative random noise. Assuming various power law exponents for the relation…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-15 M. Nagy , K. Petrovay

The hemispheric asymmetry of sunspot activity observed possesses a regular component varying on a time scale of several solar cycles whose origin and properties are currently debated. This paper addresses the question of whether the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Alexander Nepomnyashchikh , Sudip Mandal , Dipankar Banerjee , Leonid Kitchatinov

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

We introduce on/off intermittency into a mean field dynamo model by imposing stochastic fluctuations in either the alpha effect or through the inclusion of a fluctuating electromotive force. Sufficiently strong small scale fluctuations with…

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