Physics
Scientific paper
Sep 1988
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1988soph..117..261b&link_type=abstract
(Solar Cycle Workshop, Meeting, 2nd, Lake Tahoe, CA, May 1987) Solar Physics (ISSN 0038-0938), vol. 117, no. 2, 1988, p. 261-267
Physics
5
Cycles, Geomorphology, Magnetic Fields, Solar Cycles, Solar Physics, Amplitude Modulation, Geochronology, Impact, Sediments, Torsion
Scientific paper
The discovery of 680-million-year-old varves recording several millennia of fossil solar cycles, is a most exciting development that is bound to make an impact on solar physics. Already new problems of physical understanding have been posed by the 315-year Elatina cycle and the separate 350-year cycle, or undulation. The Elatina cycle evidences itself multiplicatively in the form of amplitude modulation with a distinctive nonsinusoidal envelope, while the undulation component is additive and quasisinusoidal. Both of these periodic phenomena are present in historical records of sunspots, but would not have been discerned from modern solar observations, which do not date back far enough. The explanation of two such sharply defined periods, in addition to the less sharply defined 22-year magnetic cycle, will require an understanding of solar physics that we do not yet have. Examples of the impact that the varve discovery is beginning to make are given, and a previously proposed mechanism for driving the activity cycle is extended in terms of a magnetic wave propagated radially outward from a deep torsional oscillator.
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