太阳活动区卫星黑子与高能耀斑

对十个活动区出现的卫星黑子进行分析,据它们不同的形态,发展状况及在耀斑活动中的作用大致分成三种类型。结果表明,高能耀斑与卫星黑子有密切关系。随着卫星黑子的出现,发展在活动区中可经常产生耀斑。如果卫星黑子是静止的,通常没有耀斑爆发。     

太阳活动区卫星黑子与高能耀斑

对十个活动区出现的卫星黑子进行分析,据它们不同的形态、发展状况及在耀斑活动中的作用大致分成三种类型。结果表明,高能耀斑与卫星黑子有密切关系。随着卫星黑子的出现,发展在活动区中可经常产生耀斑。如果卫星黑子是静止的,通常没有耀斑爆发。     

第22周中最强烈的太阳活动区

本文根据观测资料，选取五个指标：活动区中黑子群面积，Ｘ级Ｘ射线耀斑指数，１０．７ｃｍ射电爆发峰值流量，太阳总辐射流量短期大跌落以及质子事件流量，从第２２周的３９６６个活动区中综合评估筛选出ＡＲ５３９５，ＡＲ６５５５和ＡＲ６６５９等１３个最强烈的活动区，供太阳物理和日地物理研究人员进一步研究。本文还简要分析了这１３个活动区的时空分布的不均匀性和相对集中性等特点。     

第22周太阳活动上升期黑子群的一些特点

本文对22太阳周上升段期间的太阳黑子及质子耀斑进行了统计分析,结果表明此期间太阳活动确实存在一些明显的特点。并确定了上升期的活动经度:L220°—300°和L70°—130°。此外对四个强的活动区进行了介绍。     

太阳活动区的模糊分类与活动性预测

运用模糊聚类分析的方法，研究太阳活动区特性。根据Hα、软X射线耀斑与黑子群各项特征因子的数据，进行标准化处理，分别运用模糊理论中的夹角余弦法，算术平均最小法进行标定，构造模糊相似矩阵与等价矩阵，根据模糊动态聚类分析方法，确定不同λ阈值，按照活动性强弱，对24个活动区进行分类。理论计算结果表明，不同等级类型的活动区强度预测与活动区实际活动性相一致，作为太阳活动水平预报，模糊聚类分析也是一种有效的方法。     

黑子活动区流场精细结构

本文通过太阳活动区光球和色球速度场和磁场观测资料,讨论了黑子活动区附近流场的精细结构,论述了太阳大气中物质的流动呈纤维结构,以及速度场纤维与磁场,色球纤维和网络结构之间的关系。     

太阳黑子运动引起的耀斑与活动区的耦合

利用紫台赣榆站太阳精细结构望远镜拍摄的色球和光球照片，研究了１９９０年１１月６日至１３日ＮＯＡＡ６３６１活动区的磁位形演化和耀斑产生区域，发现该活动区的活动主要集中在１１日和１２日两天。还观测到新老活动区的碰撞耦合及耦合界面处小纤维（ｆｉｂｒｉｌ）的快速变化，这些现象是由于前导黑子之一的ｐ１黑子的连续几天的运动造成的。所有的活动也主要集中在ｐ１黑子的周围。     

一个黑子群“碰撞”和活动区复合的观测例子

本文和赣榆站所拍得的精细色球资料研究了１９９０年１０月两个活动区的复合过程，在缺少适时准确的磁图条件下，我们以Ｋｉｔｔ Ｐｅａｋ磁图为背景，巧妙运用Ｚｉｒｉｎ－Ｐｒａｔａ法则，剖析了此两区的发展过程。发现：１）所谓黑子群“碰撞”不仅包含了两黑子群因迁移运动逐渐相互靠拢、接触，还包含了新生磁流在两群边界处浮现生长以及原黑子的衰没，２）随着“碰撞”的发生，被“碰”黑子的磁流迅速衰减，这时在接触边界处，     

Sunspots: An overview

Sunspots are the most readily visible manifestations of solar magnetic field concentrations and of their interaction with the Sun's plasma. Although sunspots have been extensively studied for almost 400 years and their magnetic nature has been known since 1908, our understanding of a number of their basic properties is still evolving, with the last decades producing considerable advances. In the present review I outline our current empirical knowledge and physical understanding of these fascinating structures. I concentrate on the internal structure of sunspots, in particular their magnetic and thermal properties and on some of their dynamical aspects. Received 27 September 2002 / Published online 3 March 2003     

太阳黑子研究的新进展

对近年来太阳黑子研究的主要成果和存在的问题作了比较全面的描述,内容涉及观测仪器和技术,黑子的精细结构、磁场、埃弗谢德效应、振荡和磁流体波动、致冷机制、形成与消亡和新发现的早期观测资料,并对今后工作方向提出了概括性的意见。     

Propagation of the Slow Magnetoacoustic Waves in Coronal Loops Above Sunspots

The observations from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) onboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have revealed the weak dis- turbances (WDs) propagating in the fan-like coronal loops of the active region (AR 11092) at 171 ?A, 193 ?A, and 211 ?A. These WDs seem to be a common phenomenon in this part of the active region. The disturbances originate from the bright loop foot, and propagate along the loops. The observed propagation speed decreases with the increasing temperature, and varies between 40 km/s and 121 km/s, close to and less than the sound speed in coronal loops. Consid- ering the projection effect and the different angles of the loops with respect to the line of sight, this is exactly what the slow-wave model expects. The wavelet analysis shows that the periods of the WDs observed in different wavebands have no signi?cant difference, the two distinct periods, 3 min and more than 10 min, are all detected in the three EUV wavebands. Not only the coronal loops but also the sunspot region in the chromosphere exhibit intensity oscillations with a period of the order of 3 min. This result suggests that the sunspot oscillations can propagate into the corona through the chromosphere and transition region.     

Relationship between Rotating Sunspots and Flares

Active Region (AR) NOAA 10486 was a super AR in the declining phase of solar cycle 23. Dominated by the rapidly rotating positive polarity of an extensive δ sunspot, it produced several powerful flare-CMEs. We study the evolution and properties of the rotational motion of the major poles of positive polarities and estimate the accumulated helicity injected by them. We also present two homologous flares that occurred in the immediate periphery of the rotating sunspots. The main results are as follows: i) anticlockwise rotational motions are identified in the main poles of positive polarities in the AR; the fastest of them is about 220° for six days. ii) The helicity injection inferred from such rotational motion during the interval from October 25 to 30 is about − 3.0×10⁴³ Mx², which is comparable that calculated by the local correlation tracking (LCT) method (− 5.2×10⁴³ Mx²) in the whole AR. It is suggested that both methods reveal the essential topological properties of the AR, even if the former includes only the major poles and the fine features of the magnetic field are neglected. iii) It is found that there is a good spatial and temporal correspondence between the onset of two homologous CME-associated flares and the rotational motion of sunspots. This suggests that the rotational motions of sunspots not only relate to the transport of magnetic energy and complexity from the low atmosphere to the corona but may also play a key role in the onset of the homologous flares. Electronic Supplementary Material The online version of this article () contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.     

日面新生黑子的经度分布

以云南天文台对５２２个太阳自转周的观测资料统计,在可见日面上新生的黑子,各个太阳活动周出现频数不等。从中筛选出面积ＣＹ≥５００的２２８群,以及ＣＹ≥１２００的２９群,它们分别都在经度上呈相对集中性,但又多随时间变化而漂移,在时间分布上无规律性。在可比的太阳第２１和２２活动周内,新生黑子对应的最强烈活动区只有８１２００和９２３９０,另外是８２４９５回转的８２５３３对应在最强烈活区,说明新生大黑子无固定的活动源。     

Solar-cycle Time Delay of Rotating Sunspots

As shown by statistical results, in the 23rd solar activity cycle the variation of the latitudes of rotating sunspots with time exhibits a butterfly pattern. We have studied the variations with phase for the mean square errors among the 4 fitting curves of the 2 wings of the butterfly diagram of sunspots and the 2 wings of the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots in the 23rd solar activity cycle. The results show that a systematic time delay exists not only between the northern and southern hemispheres of the butterfly diagram of sunspots, but also between the northern and southern hemispheres of the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots, even between the butterfly diagrams of the sunspots and rotating sunspots in the same hemisphere. This means that the 23rd-cycle sunspot activities in the northern and southern hemispheres happened not simultaneously, that a systematic time delay or advance (phase difference) exists between the northern and southern hemispheres, that the southern hemisphere lags behind the northern hemisphere, that a phase difference exists between the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots and the butterfly diagram of sunspots in the 23rd cycle, and that the butterfly diagram of rotating sunspots lags behind that of sunspots. The observed delay is a little less than the theoretical value predicted by the dynamo model.     

Two Early Sunspots Observers: Teodoro de Almeida and José Antonio Alzate

We present the sunspot ideas and observations of the 18th century Portuguese scholar Teodoro de Almeida (1722 – 1804) and Mexican scientist José Antonio Alzate (1737 – 1799). We describe the implications of dating a single sunspot observation performed by Almeida in the early 1760s, during the maximum of cycle number 1. A possible solar cycle peak in 1760 (instead of 1761) is investigated. We present several observations of sunspots obtained by Alzate during 1769 (partially associated with the Venus and Mercury transits) and also on 20 July 1786. We estimate 100±34 as the Group Sunspot Number for this date. These records were unknown and, therefore, not included in the database compiled by Hoyt and Schatten (1998).     

太阳AR7646、7647活动区黑子磁场和新的射电微耀斑爆发

１９９４年１月５日日面上产生的１次１Ｎ／Ｍ１．０耀斑爆发，射电１．４２ＧＨｚ高时间分辨率观测也同时接收到，在小爆发过程里伴有５３个脉冲信号叠加在连续辐射背景上，是很罕见的现象。在ＡＲ７６４６的黑子前导区域，５日有２处新浮的小黑子对，磁场分别成细小磁流管平行和交又状态，是产生爆发的根源；脉冲信号是微耀斑在射电方面的瞬时辐射现象，由耀斑连续产生微能量释放而出现，单个的能量释放为（０．３—３．３）×１０１０焦耳。在能量释放过程里，非热电子加速起到重要作用。     

Association of CMEs with solar surface activity during the rise and maximum phases of solar cycles 23 and 24

The cyclical behaviors of sunspots,flares and coronal mass ejections(CMEs) for 54 months from 2008 November to 2013 April after the onset of Solar Cycle(SC) 24 are compared,for the first time,with those of SC 23 from 1996 November to 2001 April.The results are summarized below.(i) During the maximum phase,the number of sunspots in SC 24 is significantly smaller than that for SC 23 and the number of flares in SC 24 is comparable to that of SC 23.(ii) The number of CMEs in SC 24 is larger than that in SC 23 and the speed of CMEs in SC 24 is smaller than that of SC 23 during the maximum phase.We individually survey all the CMEs(1647 CMEs) from 2010 June to 2011 June.A total of 161 CMEs associated with solar surface activity events can be identified.About 45%of CMEs are associated with quiescent prominence eruptions,27%of CMEs only with solar flares,19%of CMEs with both active-region prominence eruptions and solar flares,and 9%of CMEs only with active-region prominence eruptions.Comparing the association of the CMEs and their source regions in SC 24 with that in SC 23,we notice that the characteristics of source regions for CMEs during SC 24 may be different from those of SC 23.