Physics
Scientific paper
Feb 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980sscs.nasa..175k&link_type=abstract
In NASA. Goddard Space Flight Center Study of the Solar Cycle from Space p 175-194 (SEE N80-17944 08-92)
Physics
Solar Rotation, Sunspot Cycle, Sunspots, Least Squares Method, Power Spectra, Spectrum Analysis
Scientific paper
A least squares power spectrum analysis of daily sunspot numbers for the last 122 years yielded a statistically significant peak at 12.0715 plus or minus .002 days period. This feature at 11.685 days (sidereal) of the sunspot spectrum is discussed in relation to the peak at 12.22 days (sidereal) which Dicke found in his oblateness data. The data is attributed to the Sun's core if the core rotates at either 12.0715 days or 24.1430 days period (synodic). It is suggested that spacecraft observations combined with correlative analysis of solar surface features between eastern and western hemispheres could further reveal a basic core periodicity. A Dicke type space oblateness experiment is discussed for providing better photospheric observations than a ground instrument to determine the core periodicity.
Knight J. W.
Schatten Kenneth H.
Sturrock Peter Andrew
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