155-day Periodicity in Solar Cycles 3 and 4

Details 155-day Periodicity in Solar Cycles 3 and 4 155-day Periodicity in Solar Cycles 3 and 4

2009-11-13

arxiv.org/abs/0911.2578v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

13 pages, 6 figures, to appear in New Astronomy

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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 during previous centuries can be further complicated due to the poor quality of the sunspot number time-series. We try to detect the Rieger periodicity during the solar cycles 3 and 4 using information on aurorae observed at mid and low latitudes. We use two recently discovered aurora datasets, observed in the last quarter of the 18th century from UK and Spain. Besides simple histograms of time between consecutive events we analyse monthly series of number of aurorae observed using different spectral analysis (MTM and Wavelets). The histograms show the probable presence of Rieger periodicity during cycles 3 and 4. However different spectral analysis applied has only confirmed undoubtedly this hypothesis for solar cycle 3.

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