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The observed phase relations between the weak background solar magnetic (poloidal) field and strong magnetic field associated
with sunspots (toroidal field) measured at different latitudes are presented. For measurements of the solar magnetic field
(SMF) the low-resolution images obtained from Wilcox Solar Observatory are used and the sunspot magnetic field was taken from
the Solar Feature Catalogues utilizing the SOHO/MDI full-disk magnetograms. The quasi-3D latitudinal distributions of sunspot
areas and magnetic fields obtained for 30 latitudinal bands (15 in the northern hemisphere and 15 in the southern hemisphere)
within fixed longitudinal strips are correlated with those of the background SMF. The sunspot areas in all latitudinal zones
(averaged with a sliding one-year filter) reveal a strong positive correlation with the absolute SMF in the same zone appearing
first with a zero time lag and repeating with a two- to three-year lag through the whole period of observations. The residuals
of the sunspot areas averaged over one year and those over four years are also shown to have a well defined periodic structure
visible in every two – three years close to one-quarter cycle with the maxima occurring at − 40° and + 40° and drifts during
this period either toward the equator or the poles depending on the latitude of sunspot occurrence. This phase relation between
poloidal and toroidal field throughout the whole cycle is discussed in association with both the symmetric and asymmetric
components of the background SMF and relevant predictions by the solar dynamo models. 相似文献
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Sunspot number, sunspot area, and radio flux at 10.7 cm are the indices which are most frequently used to describe the long‐term solar activity. The data of the daily solar full‐disk magnetograms measured at Mount Wilson Observatory from 19 January 1970 to 31 December 2012 are utilized together with the daily observations of the three indices to probe the relationship of the full‐disk magnetic activity respectively with the indices. Cross correlation analyses of the daily magnetic field measurements at Mount Wilson observatory are taken with the daily observations of the three indices, and the statistical significance of the difference of the obtained correlation coefficients is investigated. The following results are obtained: (1) The sunspot number should be preferred to represent/reflect the full‐disk magnetic activity of the Sun to which the weak magnetic fields (outside of sunspots) mainly contribute, the sunspot area should be recommended to represent the strong magnetic activity of the Sun (in sunspots), and the 10.7 cm radio flux should be preferred to represent the full‐disk magnetic activity of the Sun (both the weak and strong magnetic fields) to which the weak magnetic fields mainly contribute. (2) On the other hand, the most recommendable index that could be used to represent/reflect the weak magnetic activity is the 10.7 cm radio flux, the most recommendable index that could be used to represent the strong magnetic activity is the sunspot area, and the most recommendable index that could be used to represent the full‐disk magnetic activity of the Sun is the 10.7cm radio flux. Additionally, the cycle characteristics of the magnetic field strengths on the solar disk are given. (© 2014 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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R. Brajša H. Wöhl D. Ruždjak B. Vršnak G. Verbanac L. Svalgaard J.-F. Hochedez 《Astronomische Nachrichten》2007,328(10):1013-1015
The interaction between differential rotation and magnetic fields in the solar convection zone was recently modelled by Brun (2004). One consequence of that model is that the Maxwell stresses can oppose the Reynolds stresses, and thus contribute to the transport of the angular momentum towards the solar poles, leading to a reduced differential rotation. So, when magnetic fields are weaker, a more pronounced differential rotation can be expected, yielding a higher rotation velocity at low latitudes taken on the average. This hypothesis is consistent with the behaviour of the solar rotation during the Maunder minimum. In this work we search for similar signatures of the relationship between the solar activity and rotation determined tracing sunspot groups and coronal bright points. We use the extended Greenwich data set (1878–1981) and a series of full-disc solar images taken at 28.4 nm with the EIT instrument on the SOHO spacecraft (1998–2000). We investigate the dependence of the solar rotation on the solar activity (described by the relative sunspot number) and the interplanetary magnetic field (calculated from the interdiurnal variability index). Possible rotational signatures of two weak solar activity cycles at the beginning of the 20th century (Gleissberg minimum) are discussed. (© 2007 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim) 相似文献
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Robert F. Howard 《Solar physics》1992,137(1):51-65
Digitized Mount Wilson sunspot data from 1917 to 1985 are analyzed to examine the growth and decay rates of sunspot group umbral areas. These rates are distributed roughly symmetrically about a median rate of decay of a few hemisphere day-1. Percentage area change rates average 502% day-1 for growing groups and -45% day-1 for decaying groups. These values are significantly higher than the comparable rates for plage magnetic fields because spot groups have shorter lifetimes than do plages. The distribution of percentage decay rates also differs from that of plage magnetic fields. Small spot groups grow at faster rates on average than they decay, and large spot groups decay on average at faster rates than they grow. Near solar minimum there is a marked decrease in daily percentage spot area growth rates. This decrease is not related to group area, nor is it due to latitude effects. Sunspot groups with rotation rates close to the average (for each latitude) have markedly slower average rates of daily group growth and decay than do those groups with rotation rates faster or slower than the average. Similarly, sunspot groups with latitude drift rates near zero have markedly slower average rates of daily group growth and decay than do groups with significant latitude drifts in either direction. Both of these findings are similar to results for plage magnetic fields. These various correlations are discussed in the light of our views of the connection of the magnetic fields of spot groups to subsurface magnetic flux tubes. It is suggested that a factor in the rates of growth or decay of spot groups and plages may be the inclination angle to the vertical of the magnetic fields of the spots or plages. Larger inclination angles may result in faster growth and decay rates.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under Cooperative Agreement with the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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Judit Pap 《Solar physics》1987,109(2):373-386
A strong correlation was found between the dips in the total solar irradiance and the peaks in the active sunspot areas as well as in the 260 MHz coronal radio flux. This connection might indicate that Alfvén-waves, generated during the interaction of the magnetic fields of the active sunspot groups with the convection, are able to transport away part of the missing energy in the solar constant decreases. These waves can heat the solar corona above the sunspot groups. Another part of the missing energy could be re-radiated later, for example during the decay of the active regions. 相似文献
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Large-scale distribution of the sunspot activity of the Sun has been analyzed by using a technique worked out previously (Erofeev, 1997) to study long-lived, non-axisymmetric magnetic structures with different periods of rotation. Results of the analysis have been compared with those obtained by analyzing both the solar large-scale magnetic field and large-scale magnetic field simulated by means of the well-known flux transport equation using the sunspot groups as a sole source of new magnetic flux in the photosphere. A 21-year period (1964–1985) has been examined.The rotation spectra calculated for the total time interval of two 11-year cycles indicate that sunspot activity consists of a series of discrete components (modes) with different periods of rotation. The largest-scale component of the sunspot activity reveals modes with 27-day and 28-day periods of rotation situated, correspondingly, in the northern and southern hemispheres of the Sun, and two modes with rotation periods of about 29.7 days situated in both hemispheres. Such a modal structure of the sunspot activity agrees well with that of the large-scale solar magnetic field. Moreover, the magnetic field distribution simulated with the flux transport equation also reveals the same modal structure. However, such an agreement between the large-scale solar magnetic field and both the sunspot activity and simulated magnetic field is unstable in time; so, it is absent in the northern hemisphere of the Sun during solar cycle No. 20. Thus the sources of magnetic flux responsible for formation of the large-scale, rigidly rotating magnetic patterns appear to be closely connected, but are not identical with the discrete modes of the sunspot activity. 相似文献
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It is known for over two decades now that the rotation of the photospheric magnetic fields determined by two different methods
of correlation analysis leads to two vastly differing rotation laws - one the differential and the other rigid rotation. Snodgrass
and Smith (2001) reexamining this puzzle show that the averaging of the correlation amplitudes can tilt the final profile
in favour of rigid rotation whenever the contribution of the rigidly rotating large-scale magnetic structures (the plumes)
to the correlation dominates over that of the differentially rotating small-scale and mesoscale features. We present arguments
to show that the large-scale unipolar structures in latitudes >40 deg, which also show rigid rotation (Stenflo, 1989), are
formed mainly from the intranetwork magnetic elements (abbreviated as IN elements). We then estimate the anchor depths of
the various surface magnetic elements as locations of the Sun's internal plasma layers that rotate at the same rate as the
flux elements, using the rotation rates of the internal plasma layers given by helioseismology. We infer that the anchor depths
of the flux broken off from the decay of sunspot active regions (the small-scale and mesoscale features that constitute the
plumes) are located in the shallow layers close to the solar surface. From a similar comparison with helioseismic rotation
rates we infer that the rigid rotation of the large-scale unipolar regions in high latitudes could only be coming from plasma
layers at a radial distance of about 0.66–0.68 R
⊙ from the Sun's centre. Using Stenflo's (1991) ‘balloon man’ analogy, we interpret these layers as the source of the magnetic
flux of the IN elements. If so, the IN flux elements seem to constitute a fundamental component of solar magnetism. 相似文献
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It is a basic feature of the Babcock-Leighton model of the solar cycle that the polar field reversal is due to the diffusive decay and poleward drift of the active region fields. The flux from follower regions moves preferentially polewards in each hemisphere, where it cancels with, and then replaces, the previously existing polar fields. A number of workers have attempted to model this process by numerical solutions of the flux transport equation, which include the surface effects of supergranule diffusion, differential rotation and meridional flow, with conflicting results.Here we describe recent changes in the polar fields using synoptic magnetic data provided by the Mount Wilson Observatory, and compare them with simulations using the flux transport equation and based on the observed fields for Carrington rotation 1815. These changes include a part-reversal of the north polar field. It is shown that the evolution of the polar fields cannot be reproduced accurately by simulations of the diffusion and poleward drift of the emerging active regions at sunspot latitudes.Histograms of the distribution of the field intensities derived from the daily magnetograms obtained at the Kitt Peak Station of the National Solar Observatory provide independent evidence that flux is emerging at high latitudes and that this flux makes a contribution to the evolution of these patterns. This implies the presence of some form of sub-surface dynamo action at high latitudes.On leave from the School of Mathematics, University of Sydney. 相似文献
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Photospheric magnetic fluxes and average field strengths have been measured beneath 33 coronal holes observed on 63 occasions during 1975–1980. The principal result is that low-latitude holes contained 3 times more flux near sunspot maximum than near minimum despite the fact that their sizes were essentially the same. Average magnetic field strengths ranged from 3–36 G near sunspot maximum compared to 1–7 G near minimum. Evidently the low-latitude coronal holes received a proportion of the extra flux that was available at low latitudes near sunspot maximum.Visiting Astronomer, KPNO.Operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under contract with the National Science Foundation. 相似文献
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The latitudinal location of the sunspot zones in each hemisphere is determined by calculating the centroid position of sunspot
areas for each solar rotation from May 1874 to June 2011. When these centroid positions are plotted and analyzed as functions
of time from each sunspot cycle maximum, there appear to be systematic differences in the positions and equatorward drift
rates as a function of sunspot cycle amplitude. If, instead, these centroid positions are plotted and analyzed as functions
of time from each sunspot cycle minimum, then most of the differences in the positions and equatorward drift rates disappear.
The differences that remain disappear entirely if curve fitting is used to determine the starting times (which vary by as
much as eight months from the times of minima). The sunspot zone latitudes and equatorward drift measured relative to this
starting time follow a standard path for all cycles with no dependence upon cycle strength or hemispheric dominance. Although
Cycle 23 was peculiar in its length and the strength of the polar fields it produced, it too shows no significant variation
from this standard. This standard law, and the lack of variation with sunspot cycle characteristics, is consistent with dynamo
wave mechanisms but not consistent with current flux transport dynamo models for the equatorward drift of the sunspot zones. 相似文献
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Surface magnetic fields during the solar activity cycle 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
We examine magnetic field measurements from Mount Wilson that cover the solar surface over a 13 1/2 year interval, from 1967 to mid-1980. Seen in long-term averages, the sunspot latitudes are characterized by fields of preceding polarity, while the polar fields are built up by a few discrete flows of following polarity fields. These drift speeds average about 10 m s-1 in latitude - slower early in the cycle and faster later in the cycle - and result from a large-scale poleward displacement of field lines, not diffusion. Weak field plots show essentially the same pattern as the stronger fields, and both data indicate that the large-scale field patterns result only from fields emerging at active region latitudes. The total magnetic flux over the solar surface varies only by a factor of about 3 from minimum to a very strong maximum (1979). Magnetic flux is highly concentrated toward the solar equator; only about 1% of the flux is at the poles. Magnetic flux appears at the solar surface at a rate which is sufficient to create all the flux that is seen at the solar surface within a period of only 10 days. Flux can spread relatively rapidly over the solar surface from outbreaks of activity. This is presumably caused by diffusion. In general, magnetic field lines at the photospheric level are nearly radial.Proceedings of the 14th ESLAB Symposium on Physics of Solar Variations, 16–19 September 1980, Scheveningen, The Netherlands. 相似文献
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What the Sunspot Record Tells Us About Space Climate 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The records concerning the number, sizes, and positions of sunspots provide a direct means of characterizing solar activity
over nearly 400 years. Sunspot numbers are strongly correlated with modern measures of solar activity including: 10.7-cm radio
flux, total irradiance, X-ray flares, sunspot area, the baseline level of geomagnetic activity, and the flux of galactic cosmic
rays. The Group Sunspot Number provides information on 27 sunspot cycles, far more than any of the modern measures of solar
activity, and enough to provide important details about long-term variations in solar activity or “Space Climate.” The sunspot
record shows: 1) sunspot cycles have periods of 131± 14 months with a normal distribution; 2) sunspot cycles are asymmetric
with a fast rise and slow decline; 3) the rise time from minimum to maximum decreases with cycle amplitude; 4) large amplitude
cycles are preceded by short period cycles; 5) large amplitude cycles are preceded by high minima; 6) although the two hemispheres
remain linked in phase, there are significant asymmetries in the activity in each hemisphere; 7) the rate at which the active
latitudes drift toward the equator is anti-correlated with the cycle period; 8) the rate at which the active latitudes drift
toward the equator is positively correlated with the amplitude of the cycle after the next; 9) there has been a significant
secular increase in the amplitudes of the sunspot cycles since the end of the Maunder Minimum (1715); and 10) there is weak
evidence for a quasi-periodic variation in the sunspot cycle amplitudes with a period of about 90 years. These characteristics
indicate that the next solar cycle should have a maximum smoothed sunspot number of about 145 ± 30 in 2010 while the following
cycle should have a maximum of about 70 ± 30 in 2023. 相似文献
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Models of the polarity reversals of the Sun's polar magnetic fields based on the surface transport of flux are discussed and are tested using observations of the polar fields during Cycle 23 obtained by the National Solar Observatory at Kitt Peak. We have extended earlier measurements of the net radial flux polewards of ±60° and confirm that, despite fluctuations of 20%, there is a steady decline in the old polarity polar flux which begins shortly after sunspot minimum (although not at the same time in each hemisphere), crosses the zero level near sunspot maximum, and increases, with reversed polarity during the remainder of the cycle. We have also measured the net transport of the radial field by both meridional flow and diffusion across several latitude zones at various phases of the Cycle. We can confirm that there was a net transport of leader flux across the solar equator during Cycle 23 and have used statistical tests to show that it began during the rising phase of this cycle rather than after sunspot maximum. This may explain the early decrease of the mean polar flux after sunspot minimum. We also found an outward flow of net flux across latitudes ±60° which is consistent with the onset of the decline of the old polarity flux. Thus the polar polarity reversals during Cycle 23 are not inconsistent with the surface flux-transport models but the large empirical values required for the magnetic diffusivity require further investigation. 相似文献
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J. O. Stenflo 《Solar physics》1974,36(2):495-515
The differential rotation and sector structure of solar magnetic fields has been studied using digitized data on photospheric magnetic fields recorded at the Mount Wilson Observatory during the period August 1959–May 1970. The power spectra show considerable power in high-frequency peaks, corresponding to harmonic components with wavelengths less than 1/10 solar rotation. Calculations for a series of shorter time intervals show how the distribution of power over the various harmonic components in the sector pattern varies strongly with the solar cycle. The equatorial rotation rate of solar magnetic fields is about 0.1 km s-1 faster than that of the photospheric plasma determined from Doppler shifts. It is shown that the Doppler measurements mainly refer to the non-network regions. The differential flow of 0.1 km s-1 forms streamlines around the magnetic fine structures. The different rotation rates of various solar features can be explained in terms of the rotation rates of magnetic and non-magnetic regions. The rotation rates of the magnetic fields in active and quiet regions agree at the equator. At higher latitudes, however, the background fields deviate less from solid-body rotation, indicating that their source is below the deepest layers to which the sunspot magnetic fields penetrate. This suggests that turbulent diffusion of the field in old active regions may not be the main source for the background magnetic field, but that the source is located close to a rigidly rotating solar core with a synodic rotation period of 26.87 days. 相似文献
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We tried to search for the manifestation of differential rotation in the distribution of weak remnants of magnetic fields measured with a very low resolution. We found that, during the periods of low solar activity and in parts of the solar photosphere with smaller density of new magnetic flux sources, it was possible to observe the distribution of magnetic tracers in the form of differential rotation parabolas which increase their curvature from one rotation to the next. The obtained differential rotation rates are not far from those given by highly averaged sunspot data or by the daily magnetic fields. The characteristic differential rotation parabolas as well as specific cellular-like features disturbing their smooth patterns are always formed from fields of one main polarity, the sign of which depends on the phase of the activity cycle.Solar Cycle Workshop Paper. 相似文献
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R. P. Kane 《Solar physics》2008,248(1):177-190
From the LASCO CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) catalog, the occurrence frequencies of all CMEs (all strong and weak CMEs, irrespective
of their widths) were calculated for 3-month intervals and their 12-month running means determined for cycle 23 (1996 – 2007)
and were compared with those of other solar parameters. The annual values of all-CME frequency were very well correlated (+ 0.97)
with sunspot numbers, but several other parameters also had similarly high correlations. Comparisons of 12-month running means
indicated that the sunspot numbers were very well correlated with solar electromagnetic radiations (Lyman-α, 2800-MHz flux,
coronal green line index, solar flare indices, and X-ray background); but for corpuscular radiations [proton fluxes, solar
energetic particles (SEP), CMEs, interplanetary CMEs (ICMEs), and stream interaction regions (SIR)] and solar open magnetic
fields, the correlations were lower. A notable feature was the appearance of two peaks during 2000 – 2002, and those double
peaks in different parameters matched approximately except for proton fluxes and SEP and SIR frequencies. When hemispheric
intensities were considered, north – south asymmetries appeared, more in some parameters than in others. When intensities
in smaller latitude belts (10°) were compared, sunspot group numbers (SGN) were found to be confined mostly to latitudes within
± 30° of the solar equator, showing two peaks in all latitude belts, and during the course of the 11-year cycle, the double peaks shifted from middle to equatorial
solar latitudes, just as seen in the Maunder butterfly diagrams. In contrast, CME frequency was comparable at all latitude
belts (including high, near-polar latitudes), having more than two peaks in almost all latitude belts, and the peaks were
almost simultaneous in all latitude belts. Thus, the matching of SGN peaks with those of CME peaks was poor. Incidentally,
the CME frequency data for all events (all widths) after 2003 are not comparable to earlier data, owing to inclusion of very
weak (narrow) CMEs in later years. The frequencies are comparable with earlier data only for widths exceeding about 70°. 相似文献
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The purpose of the present communication is to identify the short-term (few tens of months) periodicities of several solar indices (sunspot number, Caii area and K index, Lyman , 2800 MHz radio emission, coronal green-line index, solar magnetic field). The procedure used was: from the 3-month running means (3m) the 37-month running means (37m) were subtracted, and the factor (3m – 37m) was examined for several parameters. For solar indices, considerable fluctuations were seen during the ± 4 years around sunspot maxima of cycles 18–23, and virtually no fluctuations were seen in the ± 2 years around sunspot minima. The spacings between successive peaks were irregular but common for various solar indices. Assuming that there are stationary periodicities, a spectral analysis was carried out which indicated periodicities of months: 5.1–5.7, 6.2–7.0, 7.6–7.9, 8.9–9.6, 10.4–12.0, 12.8–13.4, 14.5–17.5, 22–25, 28 (QBO), 31–36 (QBO), 41–47 (QTO). The periodicities of 1.3 year (15.6 months) and 1.7 years (20.4 months) often mentioned in the literature were seen neither often nor prominently. Other periodicities occurred more often and more prominently. For the open magnetic flux estimated by Wang, Lean, and Sheeley (2000) and Wang and Sheeley (2002), it was noticed that the variations were radically different at different solar latitudes. The open flux for < 45 solar latitudes had variations very similar (parallel) to the sunspot cycle, while open flux for > 45 solar latitudes had variations anti-parallel to the sunspot cycle. The open fluxes, interplanetary magnetic field and cosmic rays, all showed periodicities similar to those of solar indices. Many peaks (but not all) matched, indicating that the open flux for < 45 solar latitudes was at least partially an adequate carrier of the solar characteristics to the interplanetary space and thence for galactic cosmic ray modulation. 相似文献
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Periodicities of solar irradiance and solar activity indices,I 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
Using a standard FFT time series analysis, our results show an 8–11 months periodicity in the solar total and UV irradiances, 10.7 cm radio flux, Ca-K plage index, and sunspot blocking function. The physical origin of this period is not known, but the evidence in the results exclude the possibility that the observed period is a harmonic due to the FFT transform or detrending. Periods at 150–157 and 51 days are found in those solar data which are related to strong magnetic fields. The 51-day period is the dominant period in the projected areas of developing complex sunspot groups, but it is missing from the old decaying sunspot areas. This evidence suggests that the 51-day period is related to the emergence of new magnetic fields. A strong 13.5-day period is found in the total irradiance and projected areas of developing complex groups. This confirms those results (e.g., Donnelly et al., 1983, 1984; Bai, 1987, 1989) which show that active centers are located 180 deg apart from each other.Our study also shows that the modulation of various solar data due to the 27-day solar rotation is more pronounced during the declining portion of solar cycle than during the rising portion. This arises from that the active regions and their magnetic fields are better organized and more long-lived during the maximum and declining portion of solar cycle than during its rising portion. 相似文献
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We calculate analytical and numerical solutions to the magnetic flux transport equation in the absence of new bipolar sources of flux, for several meridional flow profiles and a range of peak flow speeds. We find that a poleward flow with a broad profile and a nominal 10 m s–1 maximum speed concentrates the large-scale field into very small caps of less than 15° half-angle, with average field strengths of several tens of gauss, contrary to observations. A flow which reaches its peak speed at a relatively low latitude and then decreases rapidly to zero at higher latitudes leads to a large-scale field pattern which is consistent with observations. For such a flow, only lower latitude sunspot groups can contribute to interhemispheric flux annihilation and the resulting decay and reversal of the polar magnetic fields. 相似文献
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An analysis of relationships between latitudinal fine structures of the photospheric plasma differential rotation and solar activity shows that sunspot activity seems to be lower (as measured by the number and extension of sunspot groups) at latitudes where minima of angular velocity appear. 相似文献