无黑子耀斑的研究进展

太阳无黑子耀斑是太阳耀斑的特殊表现，无黑子耀斑的研究是太阳耀斑研究的重要组成部分。在本文中总结了太阳无黑子耀斑观测研究的以下几个方面的进展概况：自然产率，位置分布特征，观测与形态特征，触发机制能量来源，可能的解释模型。     

活动区NOAA 6891的耀斑分析

本文分析了１９９１年１０月的一个大δ型活动区的黑子演化和耀斑产生的位置及可能原因，发现该活动区８９％的耀斑产在两个磁中性线旁，两磁中性线处皆有较大的磁横场和剪切。在Ｈα中一中性线处观测到暗条由于黑子的挤压运动而变得剪切成“Ω”型；另一中性线处观测到纤维束较大的变化，有时明显能观测到磁绳结构。     

两个相邻活动区中的相应耀斑

本文描述ＮＯＡＡ６２３３活动区中的一组双带耀斑及和与之有时间相关性的ＮＯＡＡ６２４０中的单带耀斑的磁场位形．并着重讨论由观测推断出的磁场拓扑联接性．分析表明：三个单耀斑发生在正极磁区里，与发生在δ黑子区中的双带耀斑，可能有远距离磁环相联系．这一高位磁环与δ黑子中的低位剪切磁环柑互作用，可能是能发双带耀斑的直接原因．在双带耀斑能量初始释放中被加速的电子，可能是沿着高位磁环或磁拓扑分界面（ＮＯＡＡ ６２４０与ＮＯＡＡ６２３３间）传播，并导致ＮＯＡＡ６２４０中的单带耀斑．因此这些单带耀斑都可能是双带耀斑的相应耀斑．     

强质子耀斑活动区的形态和旋转特征

本研究结果表明，同一黑子群在日面期间的顺或反时针方向的旋转运动会先后并存。质子耀斑前１～２天，黑子群的旋转角速度达到极大，耀斑后，磁绳的松弛，黑子群可能会反向转转，强的剪切过程和质子耀斑可能会再度出现，强质子耀斑活动区的共同特征是：（１）形态为单个团状结构δ型黑子，即众多异极性本影核紧锁在同一黑子半影中，（２）黑子面积〉１０００×１０＾－６半球面积，日面跨度〉１０°；（３）黑子群有快速的旋转活动     

22周强质子耀斑活动区的特征

本文研究了22周中的9个强质子耀斑活动区的共同特征,研究结果表明:单个团状结构黑子,即众多异极性黑子本影核紧锁在同一半影结构中的δ型黑子是强质子耀斑活动区的典型形态特征。黑子群的旋转是质子耀斑活动区的又一重要特征,黑子群的旋转方向与日面南、北半球无关。强质子耀斑的爆发总是在黑子群旋转角度达到正或负相极大之后出现。质子耀斑后,磁绳的松弛,黑子群可能会出现反向旋转,强的剪切过程和质子耀斑可能会再度出现。     

1978年利用旋涡黑子进行质子耀斑予报的评论

一、予报和实际检验 1978年1月——12月云南天文台的黑子目视观测327天,记录了475个黑子群。其中F、E、D、C型黑子群通常都进行黑子精细结构照相。H_α色球耀斑巡视观测317天,黑子磁场极大值测量292天。全年中,作者利用黑子群内出现长命旋涡作为质子予报的最初的主要指标。当黑子群发展成为β_γ,β_δ、γ、γ_δ等复杂磁场形态时,即作出质     

强质子耀斑活动区的形态和旋转特征

本文研究结果表明：同一黑子群在日面期间的顺或反时针方向的旋转运动会先后并存．质子耀斑前1～2无，黑子群的旋转角速度达到极大．耀斑后，磁绳的松弛，黑子群可能会反向旋转，强的剪切过程和质子耀斑可能会再度出现．强质子耀斑活动区的共同特征是：（1）形态为单个团状结构δ型黑子，即众多异极性本影核紧锁在同一黑子半影中；（2）黑子面积＞1000×10－6半球面积，日面跨度＞10°；（3）黑子群都有快速的旋转运动．这类活动区，如果在日面西部活动性明显地增强，那么这个活动区在未来转到日面边缘及其背后、或再次从日面东边缘转出时，定能再次爆发耀斑和伴随较强质子事件。     

1988年3月黑子磁场的演化(英文)

024黑子(S.G.D编号为4964)是1988年3月份太阳上最大、磁场最强的黑子群。在日面上出现的半个月里,始终有耀斑产生。北京天文台怀柔太阳磁场望远镜对这个活动区作了常规观测,并获得了磁场和速度场资料。 024活动区是由一个偶极黑子和δ黑子组成的。12日01~h49~mUT,黑子刚从东部出现时就有耀斑和活动日珥产生。从速度场与H_β色球单色像对比来看,耀斑内有物质向里流动,而暗条中有物质向外抛射。024活动区的磁场十分复杂,S极、N极磁场互相包含、渗入、剪切,形成许多海湾结构。可能这就是产生了许多各种形状的耀斑的缘故。本文对磁场的形态作了描述。     

宇宙信息

转动黑子触发超级太阳耀斑 五个转动黑子间的相互作用引发了近5年来观测到的最大的太阳耀斑。天文学家使用美国宇航局的太阳动力学天文台对这个耀斑区进行了5天的观测。     

无黑子区耀斑

本文分析了廿一周峰年期间云南天文台观测到的20个无黑子区耀斑。指出了无黑子耀斑的一般特征,分析了无黑子耀斑前宁静暗条的激活过程,还讨论了无黑子耀斑产生的背景条件。     

On the prospect of using butterfly diagrams to predict cycle minimum

On the basis of butterfly diagrams for the period 1874-present (covering late cycle 11 through late cycle 21), features are identified that may be useful for predicting the beginning and the length of a solar cycle, as well as the discernment of turning points in the period-growth dichotomy. For example, the first occurrence of high latitude new cycle spots during the decline of an old cycle usually occurs in the northern hemisphere, regardless of bimodal class, about 1.4 yr before new cycle minimum or about 5.4 yr after old cycle maximum, being true for 7 out of the 10 data-available cycles. Also, the last occurrence of high latitude old cycle spots tends to occur in the southern hemisphere when the old cycle is of long period (4 out of 4 cycles) and to occur in the northern hemisphere when the old cycle is of short period (4 out of 5 cycles). Application of these sorting features to the butterfly diagram for late cycle 21 yields candidate dates for the last occurrence of high latitude old cycle spots which in every case predict that cycle 21 will be a long-period cycle, ending after July 1987. Taking April 1985 to be the first occurrence of high latitude new cycle (cycle 22) spots during the decline of cycle 21 (the old cycle), one deduces that the last occurrence of high latitude old cycle spots was September 1983 (occurring in the southern hemisphere) and predicts that minimum for cycle 22 will be about 1986.7 ± 1.1 yr, or that it should occur before the end of 1987.     

Rotational Brightness Modulation and Starspots on the RS CVn-type Stars IN Com, IL Com, UX Ari, and V711 Tau

UBVRI photometric observations and models of spotting are presented for four noneclipsing RS CVn systems: IN Com (G5III/IV), IL Com (F8V+F8V), UX Ari (K01V+G5V), and V711 Tau (K1IV+G5V). A low amplitude variability caused by cold (T=1700K)spots which can occupy up to 19% of the star's surface is confirmed for the little-studied star IL Com. Long-term light curves are constructed and the stellar magnitudes and color indices of the unspotted photospheres are estimated for IN com, UX Ari, and V711 Tau. It is shown that UX Ari becomes bluer with decreasing brightness, so its variability cannot be fully explained in terms of cold spots. Models of spotting on In Com and V711 Tau are constructed from the full set of available photometric observations. The spots on both of these variables lie at middle latitudes and occupy up to 22% (In Com) and 33% (V711 Tau) of the stars' surfaces. Both stars manifest a tendency for the width of the spots to decrease as their area increases. This is a crude analog of the Maunder butterflies. These stars experience cyclical spot activity and have a differential rotation of the type found on the sun.     

Delta spots and great flares

Using eighteen years of observations at Big Bear, we summarize the development of δ spots and the great flares they produce. We find δ groups to develop in three ways: eruption of a single complex active region formed below the surface, eruption of large satellite spots near (particularly in front of) a large older spot, or collision of spots of opposite polarity from different dipoles. Our sample of twenty-one δ spots shows that once they lock together, they never separate, although rarely an umbra is ejected. The δ spots are already disposed to their final form when they emerge. The driving force for the shear is spot motion, either flux emergence or the forward motion of p spots in an inverted magnetic configuration. We observe the following phenomena preceding great flares:

1. δ spots, preferentially Types 1 and 2.
2. Umbrae obscured by Hα emission.
3. Bright Hα emission marking flux emergence and reconnection.
4. Greatly sheared magnetic configurations, marked by penumbral and Hα fibrils parallel to the inversion line.

We assert that with adequate spatial resolution one may predict the occurrence of great flares with these indicators.     

Active regions

A summary of data on the occurrence of flares and the development of active regions, based on cinematographic data is given. It is shown that flare frequency is determined by the orientation of the magnetic axis relative to the direction of solar rotation and the morphology of the magnetic field as seen in H. In particular, flares are most numerous in simple round spots with reversed polarity nearby, although they may also be frequent in complex spots with polarity reversal.Important solar active regions are shown to evolve principally along two lines; typically they appear as bright regions with loops and grow rapidly to stable bipolar magnetic form. Important activity will occur as the result of later growth of following polarity ahead of the main spots, or some other source of reversal. However, some groups appear as reversed polarity regions and grow rapidly to a level of extreme activity.A series of papers giving case histories is promised.     

The change in satellite orbital inclination caused by a rotating atmosphere with day-to-night density variation

The theory specifying the change i in a satellite's orbital inclination due to atmospheric rotation, in terms of the decrease in orbital period T, has been extended to an atmosphere with sinusoidal variation of density between day and night. It is found that with certain special sets of values for the orbital parameters, the day-to-night variation in the Earth's atmosphere can alter the equation for i/T by as much as 25% though only for a few days. Appreciable changes in i/T persisting for several months can only occur for certain resonant orbits: the maximum change is then about 8%. Near-resonance is very unlikely, but the resonance conditions are derived so that orbits can be recognised and avoided.     

A new VLBI observation of an OH maser in a post-asymptotic giant branch star using the European VLBI Network

OH 17.7 − 2.0 is a post-asymptotic giant branch star that is of great interest. The 1612-MHz OH emission from OH 17.7 − 2.0 is characterized by a double-peaked spectrum. Such a line profile has been assumed to represent maser emission from an expanding circumstellar shell. A new VLBI observation of the OH maser in OH 17.7 − 2.0 has been made using the European VLBI Network, and a relative position map of the eight OH maser spots has been obtained. Using the relative position map, it is found that the eight OH maser spots are distributed on an expanding circumstellar shell. The parameters of the expanding circumstellar shell have been obtained.     

On the possibility of constructing a radiative sunspot model in magnetohydrostatic equilibrium

It is currently believed that it is impossible to construct a radiative sunspot model in magnetohydrostatic equilibrium unless magnetic fields below the surface are excessively large (> 100 kG). This belief is based on results obtained using the mixing length theory of convection. We wish to point out that by using a different theory of convection, due to Öpik (1950), it is possible to compute a radiative sunspot model in which the field becomes no greater than 9000 G. By applying two boundary conditions, (i) depth of spot equals depth of convection zone, (ii) magnetic field has zero gradient at the base of the spot, we show that a radiative spot has a unique effective temperature for a given Wilson depression, . For = 650 km, we find T _e = 3800K ; for = 150 km, T _e = 3950K. According to our model, spots having T _e cooler than these values should not exist.     

Flood/drought change of last millennium in the Yangtze Delta and its possible connections with Tibetan climatic changes

Flood/drought series during the past 1000 yrs in the Yangtze Delta, China, was reconstructed based on historical documents and local chronologies. Continuous wavelet transform was applied to detect the periodicity and variability of the flood/drought series. Research results indicate that: (1) Larger fluctuations of climatic changes in the Tibetan Plateau result in higher wavelet variance of flood/drought in the Yangtze Delta, for example, during 1400–1700, the proxy indicators indicate that the annual temperature in Tibet experienced larger variability and that this time interval exactly corresponds to the time when the higher and significant wavelet variance occurred; (2) Periods featured by colder temperature in the Tibetan Plateau usually correspond to periods characterized by higher wetness with higher probability of flood events; (3) Variability of heating features of the Tibetan Plateau exerted great influences on intensity and onset of Indian monsoon and south Asian summer monsoon, and these atmospheric activities are in direct connection with precipitation in Eastern China. Current global warming may alter the snow mass of Tibetan Plateau and then alters the heating features of Tibetan Plateau, which may in turn impact flood/drought conditions in the Yangtze Delta.     

Delta spots and great flares

Solar Physics - Using eighteen years of observations at Big Bear, we summarize the development of δ spots and the great flares they produce. We find δ groups to develop in three ways:...     

Microscopic search for the carrier phase Q of the trapped planetary noble gases in Allende,Leoville and Vigarano

Abstract— High‐resolution transmission electron microscopy micrographs of acid‐resistant residues of the Allende, Leoville, and Vigarano meteorites show a great variety of carbon structures: curved and frequently twisted and intertwined graphene sheets, abundant carbon black‐like particles, and hollow “sacs”. It is suggested that perhaps all of these are carriers for the planetary Q‐noble gases in these meteorites. Most of these materials are pyrocarbons that probably formed by the pyrolysis of hydrocarbons either in a gas phase, or on hot surfaces of minerals. An attempt was made to analyze for argon with particle‐induced x‐ray emission in 143 spots of grains of floating and suspended matter from freeze‐dry cycles of an Allende bulk sample in water, and floating “black balls” from sonication in water of samples from the Allende meteorite. The chemical compositions of these particles were obtained, but x‐ray signals at the wavelength of argon were obtained on only a few spots.