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The Solar Cycle: A Central-Source Wave Theory*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

R. N. Bracewell*
Affiliation:
Space, Telecommunications and Radio Science Laboratory, 329A Durand Building, Stanford University, Stanford, CA94305

Abstract

Studies stimulated by the interpretation of the Elatina formation in South Australia as a fossil record of solar activity have led to discoveries of previously unnoticed features of the sunspot cycle record and to a theory of origin of the sunspot cycle that postulates a solar core in torsional motion and a magnetomechanical wave that couples to the photosphere. The considerations supporting the solar interpretation of the Elatina formation are gathered together.

Type
Solar
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1989

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Footnotes

*

From an invited talk given at the 25th annual meeting of the ASA, August 30, 1988.

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