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The calling card of solar magnetism is the sunspot cycle, during which sunspots regularly reverse their polarity sense every 11 years. However, a number of more complicated time-dependent behaviors have also been identified. In particular,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-04-06 Loren Matilsky , Juri Toomre

The Sun exhibits a well-observed modulation in the number of spots on its disk over a period of about 11 years. From the dawn of modern observational astronomy sunspots have presented a challenge to understanding -- their quasi-periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-09 Scott W. McIntosh , Sandra C. Chapman , Robert J. Leamon , Ricky Egeland , Nicholas W. Watkins

The duration of activity growths in solar cycles is on average shorter than the duration of its declines. This asymmetry can result from fluctuations in dynamo parameters. A solar dynamo model with fluctuations in the $\alpha$-effect shows…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-11-07 Leonid Kitchatinov , Alexander Nepomnyashchikh

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

Although sunspots have been systematically observed on the Sun's surface over the last four centuries, their magnetic properties have been revealed and documented only since the early 1900s. Sunspots typically appear in pairs of opposite…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 Soumitra Hazra , Dibyendu Nandy

The length of the solar activity cycle fluctuates considerably. The temporal evolution of the corresponding cycle phase, that is, the deviation of the epochs of activity minima or maxima from strict periodicity, provides relevant…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-03-15 E. Weisshaar , R. H. Cameron , M. Schüssler

The 11-yr cycle of sunspots undergo amplitude modulation over longer timescales. As a part of this long-term modulation in solar activity, the decennial rhythm occasionally breaks, with quiescent phases with very few sunspots observed over…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-05 Chitradeep Saha , Sanghita Chandra , Dibyendu Nandy

It is well accepted that the solar cycle originates from a magnetohydrodynamics dynamo deep inside the Sun. Many dynamo models have long been proposed based on a lot of observational constraints. In this paper, using 342 NSO/Kitt Peak solar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 W. B. Song

The Sun's magnetic dynamo cycle features a distinct pattern: a propagating region of sunspot emergence appears around 30 degrees latitude and vanishes near the equator every 11 years. Moreover, longitudinal flows called "torsional…

In this study, we used two methods to investigate the periodic behavior of sunspot counts in four categories for the time period January 1986-October 2013. These categories include the counts from simple (A and B), medium (C), large (D, E,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-07-23 A. Kilcik , A. Ozguc , V. B. Yurchyshyn , J. P. Rozelot

The magnetic fields of solar-type stars are observed to cycle over decadal periods -11 years in the case of the Sun. The fields originate in the turbulent convective layers of stars and have a complex dependency upon stellar rotation rate.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-02 A. Strugarek , P. Beaudoin , P. Charbonneau , A. S. Brun , J. -D. do Nascimento

The sunspot activity is the end result of the cyclic destruction and regeneration of magnetic fields by the dynamo action. We propose a new method to analyze the daily sunspot areas data recorded since 1874. By computing the power spectral…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Ilidio Lopes , Hugo G. Silva

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 polar field reversal is a crucial process in the cyclic evolution of the large-scale magnetic field of the Sun.Various important characteristics of a solar cycle, such as its duration and strength, and also the cycle predictability, are…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Elena M. Golubeva , Akash Biswas , Anna I. Khlystova , Pawan Kumar , Bidya Binay Karak

Solar activity seems quite understandable when considered on the scales comparable with a solar cycle, i.e. about 11 years, and on a short time scale of about a year. A solar cycle looks basically (anti)symmetric with respect to the solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-08 V. N. Obridko , A. S. Shibalova , D. D. Sokoloff , I. M. Livshits

The near 155 days solar periodicity, so called Rieger periodicity, was first detected in solar flares data and later confirmed with other important solar indices. Unfortunately, a comprehensive analysis on the occurrence of this periodicity…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 J. M. Vaquero , R. M. Trigo , M. Vazquez , M. C. Gallego

In 1844 Schwabe discovered that the number of sunspots increased and decreased over a period of about 11 years, that variation became known as the sunspot cycle. Almost eighty years later, Hale described the nature of the Sun's magnetic…

Solar cycles are studied with the Version 2 monthly smoothed international sunspot number, the variations of which are found to be well represented by the modified logistic differential equation with four parameters: maximum cumulative…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-19 G. Qin , S. -S. Wu

Duration of the extended solar cycles is taken into the consideration. The beginning of cycles is counted from the moment of polarity reversal of large-scale magnetic field in high latitudes, occurring in the sunspot cycle n till the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. G. Tlatov

The present study is an attempt to investigate the long term variations in coronal rotation by analyzing the time series of the solar radio emission data at 2.8 GHz frequency for the period 1947 - 2009. Here, daily adjusted radio flux…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 Satish Chandra , Hari Om Vats