Multiple and changing cycles of active stars I. Methods of analysis and application to the solar cycles

Details Multiple and changing cycles of active stars I. Methods of analysis and application to the solar cycles Multiple and changing cycles of active stars I. Methods of analysis and application to the solar cycles

2009-04-10

arxiv.org/abs/0904.1725v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Accepted to Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Long-term observational data have information on the magnetic cycles of active stars and that of the Sun. The changes in the activity of our central star have basic effects on Earth, like variations in the global climate. Therefore understanding the nature of these variations is extremely important. The observed variations related to magnetic activity cannot be treated as stationary periodic variations, therefore methods like Fourier transform or different versions of periodogramms give only partial information on the nature of the light variability. We demonstrate that time-frequency distributions provide useful tools for analyzing the observations of active stars. With test data we demonstrate that the observational noise has practically no effect on the determination in the the long-term changes of time-series observations of active stars. The rotational signal may modify the determined cycles, therefore it is advisable to remove it from the data. Wavelets are less powerful in recovering complex long-term changes than other distributions which are discussed. Applying our technique to the sunspot data we find a complicated, multi-scale evolution in the solar activity.

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