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Rescaled range analysis of the asymmetry of solar activity   总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2  
Oliver  R.  Ballester  J. L. 《Solar physics》1996,169(1):215-224
Previous studies of the north-south asymmetry of solar activity (e.g., Carbonell, Oliver, and Ballester, 1993; Oliver and Ballester, 1994) suggest that the asymmetry time series can be represented by means of a multicomponent model made up of a long-term trend, a weak sinusoidal component (with a period close to 12.1 years) and a dominant random process. Here, we have used the rescaled range analysis to study the valuation of the stochastic component of the asymmetry. To avoid the influence of the trend and the sinusoidal component on the result, we have removed both from the original time series. The value obtained for the Hurst exponent (0.717 ± 0.002) suggests that the non-periodic component is a correlated random process.  相似文献   

2.
The method of asymmetry change inside Fraunhofer lines profiles is proposed. New digital spectra with high resolution were used. It was shown that asymmetry may change repeatedly by value and a sign inside the spectral line profile. The lines can be classified in three groups on asymmetry changes inside the profiles.  相似文献   

3.
The space–time distribution of asymmetry in the area and total number of sunspot groups was considered over the time interval 1874–2009. The time behavior of the asymmetry in these indices of sunspot activity was shown to be similar on both small and large time scales. Spectral variation analysis (SVAN) was applied to study the spectral characteristics. Quasi–biennial oscillations (QBO) were revealed in the asymmetry of both indices under discussion. The SVAN diagrams for the asymmetry of the areas and numbers of sunspots in the range of QBO periods display pronounced similarity. In the activity indices per se, these effects are much weaker: the mutual correlation of the indices is lower, the QBO are less pronounced, and the similarity of the SVAN diagrams in the QBO range is absent. The effect of negative correlation between the QBO power and absolute value of the asymmetry over a long time interval was revealed: the increase in asymmetry is accompanied by a decrease in QBO amplitude regardless of which hemisphere is more active at the moment. This underlines the global nature of QBO and the relation of asymmetry to the quadrupole component of the solar large-scale magnetic field. The asymmetry is an independent fundamental characteristic of solar activity, which does not reduce to the classical characteristics of the 11-year cycle.  相似文献   

4.
This paper applies a Kuramoto model of coupled oscillators to investigate the north–south (N–S) solar asymmetry and properties of meridional circulation. We focus our study on the asymmetry of the 11-year phase, which is slight but persistent: only two changes of sign (around 1928 and 1968) are observed in the past century. We present a model of two non-linear coupled oscillators that links the hemispheric phase asymmetry of sunspots with the asymmetry of the meridional flow. We use a Kuramoto model with evolving frequencies and constant symmetric coupling to show how asymmetry in meridional circulation could produce a persistent phase lead of one solar hemisphere over the other. We associate the natural frequencies of the two oscillators with the velocities of the meridional flow cells in the northern and southern hemispheres. We assume the respective circulations to be independent and estimate the value of the relevant cross-equatorial coupling by the coupling coefficient in the Kuramoto model. We find that a persistent N–S asymmetry of sunspots and the change of the leading hemisphere could indeed both be the result of the evolving frequencies of meridional circulation; the necessary asymmetry of the meridional flow may be small; and the cross-equatorial coupling has an intermediate range value. Possible applications of these results in solar dynamo models are discussed.  相似文献   

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A relationship between the north–south asymmetry of sunspot formation and the amplitude of 11-year cycles has been established from the RGO/USAF/NOAA data on sunspots. It is shown that the higher the solar cycle amplitude, the smaller the absolute value of the north–south asymmetry. The revealed pattern has been investigated in a numerical dynamo model with irregular variations of the alpha-effect.  相似文献   

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In this paper, we have performed a temporal analysis of single pulses from short (46) and long (51) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) to investigate possible differences in their properties. In particular we pay detailed attention to the asymmetry of pulses. We find that the asymmetry ratio of short GRB pulses clusters around 0.81 and that these pulses are on average more symmetric than those from long GRBs, which have an average value of 0.47. In addition we note that the pulses in short GRBs display exponential rises and fast decays (ERFD) in comparison the fast rise exponential decays (FRED) pulses of long GRBs. The asymmetry ratio does not depend on the full width at half maximum (FWHM) and does not vary with energy channel. Moreover, there is a general trend for slower pulses to be more asymmetric. Finally, we deduce that the asymmetry could be used to probe the emission mechanisms of GRBs.  相似文献   

7.
Can Asymmetry of Solar Activity be Extended into Extended Cycle?   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
With the use of the Royal Greenwich Observatory data set of sunspot groups,an attempt is made to examine the north-south asymmetry of solar activity in the “extended” solar cycles. It is inferred that the asymmetry established for individual solar cycles does not extend to the “extended” cycles.  相似文献   

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An analysis is made of the asymmetry of Fraunhofer lines observed with the double-pass monochromator of the horizontal solar telescope ASU-5 of the Main Astronomical Observatory of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. The conclusion is that the character of macromotion in the radial direction varies with height; in a tangential direction the motions at different depths are homogeneous. The asymmetry of weak lines is due to convection rather than to wave motions.  相似文献   

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It is well known that in the power spectrum solar p modes have asymmetric profiles, which depart from a Lorentzian shape. We present a framework to explain the contribution of correlated background noise, from the acoustic source, to this asymmetry. An important prediction is that observed peak asymmetry may differ depending on the way the p-mode observations are made, and on how the data are prepared. Furthermore, if valid, the proposed framework may provide the basis for separating the contribution of the correlated noise from that of the source location and properties.  相似文献   

10.
P. Thomas 《Icarus》1981,48(1):76-90
A comparison of crater-related wind markers in the north and south polar (40–90° latitude) regions of Mars has been made on the basis of comprehensive mapping from Viking Orbiter and Mariner 9 Images. Wind streaks show that present wind activity is most effective in both north and south in the southern spring and summer. This asymmetry is consistent with the present asymmetry of climate. The more massive intracrater dune fields are also oriented with the presently strongest winds. This alignment may reflect a long-term asymmetry in the effectiveness of northern and southern spring flow because reorientation times far exceed the period of cycles of hemispherical climate asymmetry, ≈51, 000 years. Streaks originating from dark crater splotches indicate that windflow away from the south pole is effective over a larger latitude range than it is in the north. This difference may be partly responsible for the contrasting distribution of dune sand in the north and south polar regions.  相似文献   

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North-south asymmetry in the distribution of sunspots was examined. Weak correlations between north-south asymmetry and sunspot number were found in several time lags. Higuchi's fractal dimension (1988) was calculated to evaluate irregularity in north-south asymmetry. The fractal dimension obtained is 1.90 ± 0.01 and this implies that the north-south asymmetry is highly irregular. The method of Sugihara and May (1990), based on the nonlinear prediction method, was used to distinguish between deterministic chaos and noise. The results do not confirm the idea that north-south asymmetry is an example of deterministic chaos.  相似文献   

12.
We derive strong constraints on the Yukawa couplings and the vacuum expectation value in the singlet majoron model. The presence of a small gravitationally induced mass for the majoron can be used to set a constraint on its vacuum expectation value. If the singlet symmetry breaking scale is larger than the electroweak symmetry breaking scale, lepton number violating interactions in equilibrium with electroweak sphaleron interactions would destroy any prior baryon asymmetry. If the baryon asymmetry is not generated at the electroweak scale or later, strong bounds on the Yukawa couplings h 10−7 and VEVs vs < vEW are derived. We also carefully rederive baryogenesis bounds on neutrino masses, finding that in general they apply not to the masses themselves, but only to related parameters, and they are numerically somewhat less stringent than has previously been claimed.  相似文献   

13.
High-resolution spectral observation during the impulsive phase of a flare   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
High-resolution observations of the flare on October 21, 1989 were made with the Domeless Solar Telescope of the Hida Observatory. The following new results have been obtained: (a) during the impulsive phase of the flare, the spectral line asymmetry has spatial fine structures of 1–2; (b) for several points in the flare region the line profile alternatively changes between blue asymmetry and red asymmetry within a few seconds. A possible explanation has been suggested.  相似文献   

14.
The north – south (N – S) asymmetry of solar activity is investigated by using the data on coronal green-line brightness and total number and total area of sunspots over the period of 1939  –  2001. Typical time variations of the N – S asymmetry are found to be consonant in these indices. Quasi-biennial oscillations (QBO) of solar activity are well recognizable in the N – S asymmetry of the examined indices. Moreover, the QBO are much better manifested in the N – S asymmetry of the individual indices than in the original (N plus S) indices. The time variations of relative QBO power are synchronous for the N – S asymmetry of various solar activity indices whereas such a synchronization is weaker for the indices themselves. It is revealed that the relative QBO power found in the N – S asymmetry of the studied indices has a negative correlation with the value of the N – S asymmetry itself. The findings indicate that the N – S asymmetry should be regarded as a fundamental phenomenon of solar activity similarly manifested in different activity indices. These findings should be taken into account when any dynamo theory of solar activity is constructed.  相似文献   

15.
Measurements made during 1976–1979 at the Aarne Karjalainen Observatory show slight east-west asymmetry of Saturn's ring B.  相似文献   

16.
V. S. Titov 《Solar physics》1992,139(2):401-404
The method of calculating two-dimensional potential magnetic configurations with current sheets (CS) is proposed, the number of CS in corona and the degree of asymmetry being both arbitrary. As a given boundary value the component of magnetic field normal to the photosphere is considered.  相似文献   

17.
On the occurrence of blue asymmetry in chromospheric flare spectra   总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1  
We present observations of optical spectra of a flare in which blue line asymmetry was seen for more than 4 min close to the flare onset. The maximum blue asymmetry coincided with the maximum of a hard X-ray and microwave burst. We discuss possible interpretations of the blue asymmetry and conclude that the most plausible one is electron-beam heating with return current. Although this process predicts downflows in the lower transition region and upper chromosphere, its ultimate effect on the line profiles can be blue asymmetry: the upper layers moving away from us absorb the radiation of the red peak thus lowering its intensity in comparison to the blue one.  相似文献   

18.
We present total intensity and linear polarization observations made with the Very Large Array at λλ20 and 6 cm of a representative sample of 42 radio galaxies and quasars selected from the Molonglo complete sample. The sources have been chosen to be of large size to probe the depolarizing medium on these scales using our present data and later with observations at lower frequencies with the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope. The λ20 and 6 cm data are of similar resolutions and show that depolarization between these two wavelengths is seen largely only in those lobes which are within about 300 kpc of the parent galaxy. Examination of the depolarization of the lobes with arm-length asymmetry shows that depolarization is observed predominantly for the lobe which is closer to the nucleus. There is also a trend for the lobe closer to the nucleus to be brighter, consistent with the scenario that the nearer lobe is interacting with a denser environment which is responsible for the higher depolarization and greater dissipation of energy. We have also examined the depolarization asymmetry of the lobes on opposite sides of the nucleus for galaxies and quasars. This shows that the depolarization asymmetry for quasars is marginally higher than that for galaxies. The depolarization properties of our sample are possibly determined by an asymmetric environment as well as the effects of orientation.  相似文献   

19.
This paper presents crossed-beam Doppler spectral measurements of radar aurora during westward electrojet conditions made with the STARE system in northern Scandinavia. The averaged spectral characteristics (e.g. spectral shape, relative power, spectrum width, spectrum asymmetry) are examined relative to the electron drift velocity estimated by combining the mean Doppler shifts from both radars. The type of spectrum was found to depend on the flow angle θ defined as the angle between drift velocity and radar wavevector. Typically, narrow spectra, similar to equatorial type I spectra, are observed for angles θ up to 60° while for larger angles the spectra become much broader and less stable in space and time. The observed spectral types are closely identified with primary and secondary irregularities. On average, a power law relationship was found to exist between the relative backscatter power and the drift velocity magnitude. A weak trend was found for the narrow spectra to become narrower for larger drifts contrary to broad spectrum width which increases linearly with drift magnitude. The spectra are often asymmetric with elongated tails toward zero Doppler shifts but this asymmetry is of a different nature for the narrow and broad spectra. The averaged spectral properties presented in this paper are similar to those reported by Nielsen et al. (1984) for eastward electrojet radar aurora.  相似文献   

20.
The asymmetry of Hα line profiles is an important characteristic in the spectral observations of chromospheric flares, as well as one of the important observational facts of the dynamical process in solar flares. Based on the observed data of the solar spectrograph of Purple Mountain Observatory, some typical asymmetric Hα line profiles are presented. Taking the effects of the nonthermal excitation and ionization of hydrogen atoms into consideration, the asymmetry characteristics of Hα line profiles under different atmospheric models are calculated, and a semi-empirical study on the observed line profiles is thereby made. The results indicate that the downward motion of the chromospheric condensation region can cause the red and blue asymmetries of Hα spectra. We have tried to reproduce the observed asymmetry characteristics in specific flares. It is found that, besides the energy flux of nonthermal particles, the magnitude of spectral index and the height of the velocity field affect the line profile, the flare's atmospheric background model also has some influence on the line profile.  相似文献   

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