Spatial and temporal variations in the solar brightness

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Jan 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003soph..212...51w&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, v. 212, Issue 1, p. 51-64 (2003).

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We have investigated long-term variations of solar brightness as a function of both time and solar latitude using eight years of ground-based photometric data in conjunction with space-based irradiance data. In particular, we have examined whether the combination of sunspot brightness deficits and facular brightness excesses is sufficient to explain the solar cycle irradiance variations. After correcting for the contribution from sunspots, we find that the irradiance data can be adequately explained by a model in which the remaining brightness variations are due entirely to facular contributions confined to the magnetically active latitudes. Thus we find no support for the hypothesis that there are convectively driven hot bands in the active latitudes, and our data show brightness variations that are well described by a facular contrast function.

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