Physics
Scientific paper
May 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sp51b13g&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SP51B-13
Physics
2162 Solar Cycle Variations (7536), 6299 General Or Miscellaneous, 7536 Solar Activity Cycle (2162)
Scientific paper
The correlation between the planetary orbits and sunspots distributions has been known for long time. It has however been largely ignored by the scientific community because the tidal model proposed to explain their origin had been discredited. Upon investigating planetary positions and sunspot distributions, the presence of two new correlations between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn and the sunspot distribution can now be reported. The average time elapsed between the heliospheric conjunction and opposition of Jupiter and Saturn (HCOJS) for the last 24 cycles is 9.93 years. The solar activity cycle is depressed and delayed following an HCOJS in which the position of Neptune is within 100 of heliospheric longitude of Jupiter, thereby overlapping the next cycle. This delay modifies the average HCOJS cycle to 11.17 years. This is identical with the long term average length of the solar cycle. The effect of the HCOJS is also present in the latitude distribution of the sunspots. A search through the Greenwich data set from 1874 to 1976, showed that, for seven consecutive cycles (14-20), the annual average latitude of the sunspots was lowest during years in which the HCOJS occurred. The strength of the combined gravitational fields of the moons of Jupiter and Saturn also seems to correlate with solar activity. The strength of this field fluctuates with a 160-165 days periodicity, which coincides with the 152-158 days periodicity detected in the solar activity. I interpret these correlations in the following way. The gravitational attraction of the solar system captures interstellar comets. The flux of these incoming comets fluctuates as a result of fluctuating gravitational fields within solar system, dominated by the HCOJS. These comets impact the sun with a time delay and cause the known solar cycle. This cometary impact model for the origin of sunspots is further supported by the following observations: 1) A continuum model cannot explain the observed temperature differences in the sunspot umbra. 2) Highly congested water spectral lines in the sunspots have been detected. 3) Most of the missing radiated energy at the site of the sunspots has never been detected, indicating an external cooling process. 4) The inverse correlation between the sunspot density and the rotational period at the corresponding latitude of the sun is consistent with an impact model. 5) The observed butterfly distribution of the sunspots can be shown to be consistent with the proposed impact model.
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