Sunspot group tilt angle measurements from historical observations
- Sunspot positions from various historical sets of solar drawings are analyzed with respect to the tilt angles of bipolar sunspot groups. Data by Scheiner, Hevelius, Staudacher, Zucconi, Schwabe, and Sporer deliver a series of average tilt angles spanning a period of 270 years, additional to previously found values for 20th-century data obtained by other authors. We find that the average tilt angles before the Maunder minimum were not significantly different from the modem values. However, the average tilt angles of a period 50 years after the Maunder minimum, namely for cycles 0 and 1, were much lower and near zero. The normal tilt angles before the Maunder minimum suggest that it was not abnormally low tilt angles which drove the solar cycle into a grand minimum. (C) 2016 COSPAR. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
| Author details: | Senthamizh Pavai ValliappanORCiD, Rainer ArltGND, Andrea DierckeORCiDGND, Carsten DenkerORCiDGND, J. M. Vaquero |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asr.2016.03.002 |
| ISSN: | 0273-1177 |
| ISSN: | 1879-1948 |
| Title of parent work (English): | Advances in space research |
| Publisher: | Elsevier |
| Place of publishing: | Oxford |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2016 |
| Publication year: | 2016 |
| Release date: | 2020/03/22 |
| Tag: | Cycle-averaged tilt angle; Sun: sunspots; Tilt angles |
| Volume: | 58 |
| Number of pages: | 7 |
| First page: | 1468 |
| Last Page: | 1474 |
| Funding institution: | German Science Foundation (DFG) [AR 355/10-1, DE 787/3-1]; [GR15137]; [AYA2014-57556-P] |
| Organizational units: | Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Physik und Astronomie |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
