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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Autor principal: R. Gonçalves (author)
Outros Autores: A. A. Pinto (author), N. Stollenwerk (author)
Formato: article
Idioma:eng
Publicado em: 2009
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Texto completo:https://hdl.handle.net/10216/102323
País:Portugal
Oai:oai:repositorio-aberto.up.pt:10216/102323