Solar-cycle Time Delay of Rotating Sunspots |
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| Authors: | Xiang-Jun Shi Ke-Jun LiXiao-Li Yan Peng-Xin Gao |
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| Institution: | a National Astronomical Observatories/Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011
b Graduate University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 |
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| Abstract: | As shown by statistical results, in the 23rd solar activity cycle the variation of the latitudes of rotating sunspots with time exhibits a butterfly pattern. We have studied the variations with phase for the mean square errors among the 4 fitting curves of the 2 wings of the butterfly diagram of sunspots and the 2 wings of the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots in the 23rd solar activity cycle. The results show that a systematic time delay exists not only between the northern and southern hemispheres of the butterfly diagram of sunspots, but also between the northern and southern hemispheres of the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots, even between the butterfly diagrams of the sunspots and rotating sunspots in the same hemisphere. This means that the 23rd-cycle sunspot activities in the northern and southern hemispheres happened not simultaneously, that a systematic time delay or advance (phase difference) exists between the northern and southern hemispheres, that the southern hemisphere lags behind the northern hemisphere, that a phase difference exists between the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots and the butterfly diagram of sunspots in the 23rd cycle, and that the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots lags behind that of sunspots. The observed delay is a little less than the theoretical value predicted by the dynamo model. |
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| Keywords: | Sun activity&mdash Sun sunspots&mdash methods data analysis |
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