Is there a chronometer hidden deep in the Sun?
Abstract
No support is found for the conventional view of the sunspot cycle, that there exists a large random walk in the phase of the cycle. Instead, both sunspots and the [D/H] solar/terrestrial weather indicator seem to be paced by an accurate clock inside the Sun.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- December 1978
- DOI:
- 10.1038/276676b0
- Bibcode:
- 1978Natur.276..676D
- Keywords:
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- Solar Activity Effects;
- Statistical Analysis;
- Sunspot Cycle;
- Meteorology;
- Periodic Variations;
- Random Walk;
- Solar Magnetic Field;
- Solar Physics