Estimating Long-Term Solar Irradiance Variability: A New Approach     

Vigouroux  Anne  Pap  Judit M.  Delache  Philippe 《Solar physics》1997,176(1):1-21

The detection of solar irradiance variations (both bolometric and at various wavelengths) by satellite-based experiments during the last one-and-a-half decades stimulated modeling efforts to help identify their causes and to provide estimates of irradiance data for those time intervals when no satellite observations exist. In this paper we present estimates of the long-term irradiance changes developed with Fourier and wavelet transforms. The month-to-month irradiance variations, after removing the solar cycle related long-term changes, are studied with the cross-correlation technique. Results of the analysis reveal a significant phase shift at 3 months between the full-disk magnetic field strength and total solar and UV irradiance, with irradiance leading the magnetic field variability. In addition to this time delay between the changes in solar irradiance and the magnetic field, a 10-month phase shift has been found between the UV flux at 280 nm and total solar irradiance corrected for sunspot darkening. The existence of these phase shifts suggests the possibility of a coupling between the physical processes taking place below, in, and above the photosphere.  相似文献   

Study of the distribution of daily fluctuations in observed solar irradiances and other full-disk indices of solar activity     

Judit M. Pap  Anne Vigouroux  Philippe Delache 《Solar physics》1996,167(1-2):125-143

Analyses based on irradiance observations from space within the last one and a half decades have discovered variations in the entire solar spectrum and at UV wavelengths on time scales of minutes to decades. In this paper we analyze the distribution of the measuring uncertainties and daily fluctuations in total solar irradiance measured by the Nimbus-7/ERB and SMM/ACRIM I radiometers as a function of solar cycle. Changes in solar total irradiance and its surrogates shorter than the solar rotation have also been considered as noise and have been removed from the data. Our results show that the noise (both instrumental and solar noise) changes as a function of the solar cycle, being higher during high solar activity conditions. The analysis of the scatter plot diagrams between the data and their standard deviation, the so-called dispersion diagrams, provides a useful tool to estimate and predict the time of solar maximum and minimum activity conditions.Deceased on October 13, 1994.  相似文献   

Global Oscillations at Low Frequency from the SOHO mission (GOLF)     

A. H. Gabriel  G. Grec  J. Charra  J. -M. Robillot  T. Roca Cortés  S. Turck-Chièze  R. Bocchia  P. Boumier  M. Cantin  E. Cespédes  B. Cougrand  J. Crétolle  L. Damé  M. Decaudin  P. Delache  N. Denis  R. Duc  H. Dzitko  E. Fossat  J. -J. Fourmond  R. A. García  D. Gough  C. Grivel  J. M. Herreros  H. Lagardère  J. -P. Moalic  P. L. Pallé  N. Pétrou  M. Sanchez  R. Ulrich  H. B. van der Raay 《Solar physics》1995,162(1-2):61-99

The GOLF experiment on the SOHO mission aims to study the internal structure of the sun by measuring the spectrum of global oscillations in the frequency range 10^–7 to 10^–2 Hz. Bothp andg mode oscillations will be investigated, with the emphasis on the low order long period waves which penetrate the solar core. The instrument employs an extension to space of the proven ground-based technique for measuring the mean line-of-sight velocity of the viewed solar surface. By avoiding the atmospheric disturbances experienced from the ground, and choosing a non-eclipsing orbit, GOLF aims to improve the instrumental sensitivity limit by an order of magnitude to 1 mm s^–1 over 20 days for frequencies higher than 2.10^–4 Hz. A sodium vapour resonance cell is used in a longitudinal magnetic field to sample the two wings of the solar absorption line. The addition of a small modulating field component enables the slope of the wings to be measured. This provides not only an internal calibration of the instrument sensitivity, but also offers a further possibility to recognise, and correct for, the solar background signal produced by the effects of solar magnetically active regions. The use of an additional rotating polariser enables measurement of the mean solar line-of-sight magnetic field, as a secondary objective.  相似文献   

Sunspot numbers uncertainties and parametric representations of solar activity variations   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

A. Vigouroux  Ph. Delache 《Solar physics》1994,152(1):267-274

Investigating the real origins of error bars prior to data processing can be highly rewarding. We have already shown it for solar radius determinations where uncertainties could be deduced from the dispersion of elementary measurements. In the present work, we extend our analysis to the historical monthly sunspot numbers where the uncertainty problem arises quite differently. This leads to a substantial revision of our initial method. Like in the radius case, we shall stress the interest of analysing procedures which have the capability of taking care of unequal error bars, such as the wavelet transform.  相似文献   

VIRGO: Experiment for helioseismology and solar irradiance monitoring   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

Claus Fröhlich  José Romero  Hansjörg Roth  Christoph Wehrli  Bo N. Andersen  Thierry Appourchaux  Vicente Domingo  Udo Telljohann  Gabrielle Berthomieu  Philippe Delache  Janine Provost  Thierry Toutain  Dominique A. Crommelynck  André Chevalier  Alain Fichot  Werner Däppen  Douglas Gough  Todd Hoeksema  Antonio Jiménez  Maria F. Gómez  José M. Herreros  Teodoro Roca Cortés  Andrew R. Jones  Judit M. Pap  Richard C. Willson 《Solar physics》1995,162(1-2):101-128

The scientific objective of the VIRGO experiment (Variability of solar IRradiance and Gravity Oscillations) is to determine the characteristics of pressure and internal gravity oscillations by observing irradiance and radiance variations, to measure the solar total and spectral irradiance and to quantify their variability over periods of days to the duration of the mission. With these data helioseismological methods can be used to probe the solar interior. Certain characteristics of convection and its interaction with magnetic fields, related to, for example, activity, will be studied from the results of the irradiance monitoring and from the comparison of amplitudes and phases of the oscillations as manifest in brightness from VIRGO, in velocity from GOLF, and in both velocity and continuum intensity from SOI/MDI. The VIRGO experiment contains two different active-cavity radiometers for monitoring the solar constant, two three-channel sunphotometers (SPM) for the measurement of the spectral irradiance at 402, 500 and 862 nm, and a low-resolution imager (LOI) with 12 pixels, for the measurement of the radiance distribution over the solar disk at 500 um. In this paper the scientific objectives of VIRGO are presented, the instruments and the data acquisition and control system are described in detail, and their measured performance is given.died 13 October 1994  相似文献