Slow Start to Solar Cycle Tied to Sluggish Interior Stream

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Oct 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009spwea...710005k&link_type=abstract

Space Weather, Volume 7, Issue 10, CiteID S10005

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Space Weather: Magnetic Storms (2788), Space Weather: Forecasting (1922, 2722), Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Solar Activity Cycle (2162)

Scientific paper

A slowly moving river of gas meandering deep inside the Sun's interior may be the reason for the paucity of sunspots this year and the late start to the current cycle of solar activity. Sonograms of the Sun's surface reveal that the buried stream is moving much more sluggishly toward the equator than similar streams observed during the previous solar cycle. Such jet stream-like currents typically take 6-8 years to move from the pole of the Sun to the equator as they spiral east to west, explained Frank Hill, a solar physicist with the National Solar Observatory, in Tucson, Ariz. “For this cycle, it's taken one to two years longer,” he said.

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