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Sunspot latitudes during the Maunder Minimum: a machine-readable catalogue from previous studies
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- The Maunder Minimum (1645-1715 approximately) was a period of very low solar activity and a strong hemispheric asymmetry, with most of sunspots in the southern hemisphere. In this paper, two data sets of sunspot latitudes during the Maunder minimum have been recovered for the international scientific community. The first data set is constituted by latitudes of sunspots appearing in the catalogue published by Gustav Sp\"orer nearly 130 years ago. The second data set is based on the sunspot latitudes displayed in the butterfly diagram for the Maunder Minimum which was published by Ribes and Nesme-Ribes almost 20 years ago. We have calculated the asymmetry index using these data sets confirming a strong hemispherical asymmetry in this period. A machine-readable version of this catalogue with both data sets is available in the Historical Archive of Sunspot Observations (http://haso.unex.es) and in the appendix of this article.<br />Comment: 14 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in "Advances in Space Research"
- Subjects :
- Atmospheric Science
Sunspot
Butterfly diagram
Aerospace Engineering
FOS: Physical sciences
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Atmospheric sciences
Latitude
Geophysics
Astrophysics - Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science
Climatology
Hemispheric asymmetry
General Earth and Planetary Sciences
Asymmetry Index
Southern Hemisphere
Geology
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7adb622dfeb64c0481ef09bd9a3def7e