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Tidal Force of Sun Due to Planetary Radial Alignment and Sun-Spot Cycle

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

S.D. Verma*
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Space Sciences, Gujarat University, Ahmedabad 380009, India

Abstract

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It is well known that the Sun’s radiation and a large number of phenomena occurring on the sun have influence on the Earth’s near environment i.e. Atmosphere, Ionosphere, Magnetosphere, etc. These manifest themselves as day-night, seasons, tides and many changes in the neutral atmosphere; changes in meteorological parameters. These changes are directly or indirectly related to variations in solar parameters, such as solar flares, magnetic storms, variations in sunspot number occurring in solar photosphere. Sunsports are observed, their number counted and their accurate records maintained for long time (many centuaries). The sunspot number seems to follow periodic changes with several periods; mainly 11 years and 23.5 years. Recently it has been shown that the combined tidal force of the inner planets and two largest planets, Jupiter and Saturn, have periodic change of 11 and 23.5 years. It was proposed that this small force may be having a tiny influence on the surface of the Sun and causing some nonlinear effect which results into formation of sunspots and thus causes the variations in the number of sunspots. In the present work it is shown that whenever the combined tidal force on sun increases then sunspot number seems to increase and when force decreases sunspot number decreases. This is shown for Solar Cycle number 21.

Type
Part V General Celestial Mechanics and Stellar Dynamics
Copyright
Copyright © Nova Science Publishers 1993

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