The sun as a star: solar phenomena and stellar applications.
Abstract
The properties of the sun as a star are discussed in light of the possibilities offered by studies of the sun for the understanding of other stars, and the potential implications of studies of solar-type stars with different fundamental properties for the understanding of solar physics. Particular attention is given to the relation between rotation rates, activities, magnetic fields and ages in the sun and other main-sequence stars, which is explained in terms of processes in stellar convection zones, the phenomenology of the solar activity cycle and its relation to stellar cycles, and to closed and open magnetic structures in the solar corona and the possible mainfestations of such structures on other stars. Areas of stellar and solar physics which are likely to be clarified in the future by further solar observations, related stellar observations and theoretical studies are indicated.
- Publication:
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Solar Phenomena in Stars and Stellar Systems
- Pub Date:
- 1981
- Bibcode:
- 1981ASIC...68....1N
- Keywords:
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- Solar Activity;
- Solar Cycles;
- Solar Physics;
- Stellar Coronas;
- Stellar Magnetic Fields;
- Stellar Rotation;
- Convective Flow;
- Coronal Loops;
- Main Sequence Stars;
- Stellar Winds;
- Variable Stars;
- Solar Physics;
- Dynamo Theory:Stars;
- Solar Activity;
- Solar Rotation;
- Stellar Coronae