Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Aug 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994spmt.nasa....1h&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Ames Research Center, Astrophysical Science with a Spaceborne Photometric Telescope p 1-10 (SEE N95-14499 03-90)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Astrophysics, Dwarf Stars, K Stars, Rotation, Stellar Activity, Stellar Flares, Climate Change, Climatology, Irradiance, Solar Flux
Scientific paper
FRESIP will obtain a great deal of data on stellar activity and flares on F, G and K dwarfs. Rotation periods, flare distributions and possibly stellar cycles will emerge. This apparently curiosity-driven research actually has implications for our understanding of global climate change. Significant climate change during the seventeenth-century Maunder Minimum is thought to be related to a change in the solar condition. Recently acquired data from the Greenland Ice-core Project suggest that far greater climate changes on decade time scales may have occurred during the previous interglacial. It is possible that a yet more drastic change in state of the Sun was responsible. We have no relevant solar data, but can begin to explore this possibility by observing an ensemble of solar-like stars.
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