Longitude and Latitude Structure of the Polar Activity of the Sun in the 21st Cycle

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A catalog of observations of polar faculae by the Mountain Astronomical Station of the Pulkovo Observatory (Kislovodsk) for the 21st polar-activity cycle of the Sun (1972 1976) has been compiled. The mean annual and semiannual longitude distributions of the facular surface density have been constructed for latitude bands from 35 to 85° with steps of 10° in latitude and 30° in longitude in polar (the “wind roses”) and cylindrical projections, using a Bartels coordinate-grid rotation system. Coherent spatial structures in these distributions, which are characteristically elongated in two mutually perpendicular directions (i.e., they have an “X”-like appearance), can be identified. The high-latitude activity in the northern and southern hemispheres tends to be in spatial antiphase. This behavior corresponds to a four-sector global polar-activity structure. This indicates the presence of a magnetic-field source that is not associated with the differential rotation of the sun and modulates the evolution of local magnetic fields.

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