Physics
Scientific paper
May 1980
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1980soph...66..187w&link_type=abstract
Solar Physics, Volume 66, Issue 1, pp.187-193
Physics
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Scientific paper
The realization that solar activity probably undergoes changes in qualitative character on time scales greater than the 11 or 22 year cycle but short compared to the duration of recorded history gives renewed importance to historical documents describing the state of solar activity. Modern eclipse observation reveal the presence of solar activity through the appearance of coronal structures and prominences. It has been widely remarked that eclipse records prior to the 18th century are uniformly silent on these conspicuous solar eclipse features, raising the possibility, however unlikely, that a change in solar activity has occurred which rendered them only recently noticeable. We present here material from ancient Chinese sources, primarily astrological, that describe phenomena attending solar eclipses that are almost certainly coronal structures and prominences. Thus, these aspects of the present character of solar activity have apparently occurred at other times in history, if not continuously.
Siscoe George L.
Wang Pao K.
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