Cycles and universality in sunspot number fluctuations
We analyze the famous Wolf's sunspot numbers. Surprisingly, we discovered that the distribution of the sunspot number fluctuations for both the ascending and descending phases is close to the universal nonparametric Bramwell-Holdsworth-Pinton (BHP) distribution. Since the BHP probability densit...
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| Format: | article |
| Language: | eng |
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2009
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| Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10216/102323 |
| Country: | Portugal |
| Oai: | oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/102323 |