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Solar-Activity Cycles Reconstructed from Statistics on Polar Lights with Allowance for the Contribution of the Main Magnetic Field of the Earth in 1000–2000

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We examined cycles of solar activity reconstructed based on the number of auroras observed at the middle and low latitudes in 1000–1700. We used a wavelet analysis method. Variations in the Earth’s magnetic moment influence the propagation of cosmic particles that cause auroras. We took this influence into account when reconstructing solar activity based on variations in the number of auroras. The analysis was carried out for a combined series: the reconstructed series of sunspots SN (1000–1700) and the modern SN series (1700–2000). Two dominant components were found in the SN spectrum: the near-centennial Gleissberg cycle, which consists of two modes with periods of 60–80 and 90–140 years, and a nearly two-century Suess cycle. When the the contribution of the magnetic moment is taken into account, the amplitudes of the periods of the Gleissberg group in the SN spectrum increase as compared to the initial spectrum of the aurora number, and their intensity approaches the intensity of the Suess variation. Analysis of changes in the amplitudes and periods of all cycles showed the presence of long-wave modulation with a possible period ranging from 1300 to 1700 years. As for the Gleissberg cycles, a frequency modulation with a period of 216 years by the Suess cycle was also revealed. We believe that the ~200-year component has an extrasolar nature and may reflect the result of the duplication of the fundamental frequency (11 and 22-year cycles) on multiple modulator modes.

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Ptitsyna, N.G., Demina, I.M. Solar-Activity Cycles Reconstructed from Statistics on Polar Lights with Allowance for the Contribution of the Main Magnetic Field of the Earth in 1000–2000. Geomagn. Aeron. 61, 312–324 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0016793221020122

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