Asymmetric behavior of different solar activity features over solar cycles 20-23

Details Asymmetric behavior of different solar activity features over solar cycles 20-23 Asymmetric behavior of different solar activity features over solar cycles 20-23

Jul 2011

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2011newa...16..269b&link_type=abstract

New Astronomy, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. 269-275.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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This paper presents the study of normalized north-south asymmetry, cumulative normalized north-south asymmetry and cumulative difference indices of sunspot areas, solar active prominences (at total, low (⩽40°) and high (⩾50°) latitudes) and Hα solar flares from 1964 to 2008 spanning the solar cycles 20-23. Three different statistical methods are used to obtain the asymmetric behavior of different solar activity features. Hemispherical distribution of activity features shows the dominance of activities in northern hemisphere for solar cycle 20 and in southern hemisphere for solar cycles 21-23 excluding solar active prominences at high latitudes. Cumulative difference index of solar activity features in each solar cycle is observed at the maximum of the respective solar cycle suggesting a cyclic behavior of approximately one solar cycle length. Asymmetric behavior of all activity features except solar active prominences at high latitudes hints at the long term periodic trend of eight solar cycles. North-south asymmetries of SAP (H) express the specific behavior of solar activity at high solar latitudes and its behavior in long-time scale is distinctly opposite to those of other activity features. Our results show that in most cases the asymmetry is statistically highly significant meaning thereby that the asymmetries are real features in the N-S distribution of solar activity features.

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