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On the negative correlation between solar activity and solar rotation rate

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An increase in solar activity is shown to be accompanied by a decrease in solar rotation rate. This effect has been established from various indices; it manifests itself as cyclic and secular variations in the global magnetic field, in the observations of the magnetic field of the Sun as a star, and in the observations of the solar corona. Some possible explanations of this effect are discussed.

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Original Russian Text © V.N. Obridko, B.D. Shelting, 2016, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, Vol. 42, No. 9, pp. 694–700.

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Obridko, V.N., Shelting, B.D. On the negative correlation between solar activity and solar rotation rate. Astron. Lett. 42, 631–637 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773716080041

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