Solar Cycle 23: An Anomalous Cycle?

Details Solar Cycle 23: An Anomalous Cycle? Solar Cycle 23: An Anomalous Cycle?

Jul 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004apj...609.1140d&link_type=abstract

The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 609, Issue 2, pp. 1140-1152.

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Sun: Activity, Sun: Faculae, Plages, Sun: Sunspots

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The latest SOHO VIRGO total solar irradiance (TSI) time series is analyzed using new solar variability measures obtained from full-disk solar images made at the San Fernando Observatory and the Mg II 280 nm index. We discuss the importance of solar cycle 23 as a magnetically simpler cycle and a variant from recent cycles. Our results show the continuing improvement in TSI measurements and surrogates containing information necessary to account for irradiance variability. Use of the best surrogate for irradiance variability due to photospheric features (sunspots and faculae) and chromospheric features (plages and bright network) allows fitting the TSI record to within an rms difference of 130 ppm for the period 1986 to the present. Observations show that the strength of the TSI cycle did not change significantly despite the decrease in sunspot activity in cycle 23 relative to cycle 22. This points to the difficulty of modeling TSI back to times when only sunspot observations were available.

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