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The internal magnetic field of the Sun and peculiarities of the solar activity cycles

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The existence of prolonged periods of abnormally low solar activity (such as the Maunder minimum) is explained within the framework of Leighton's model of a solar cycle with a hypothetical internal magnetic field of the Sun taken into account.

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  1. Institute of Physics, Leningrad University, 199164, Leningrad, U.S.S.R.

    M. I. Pudovkin & E. E. Benevolenska

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Pudovkin, M.I., Benevolenska, E.E. The internal magnetic field of the Sun and peculiarities of the solar activity cycles. Sol Phys 95, 381–390 (1985). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00152415

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