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X-ray bright points and the sunspot cycle: Further results and predictions

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X-ray images obtained during two rocket flights near the maximum of sunspot cycle 21 now allow the study of the variation of X-ray bright point number over an eleven-year period covering the maxima of the last two cycles. The new data are consistent with the earlier conclusion that the temporal variation of bright point and sunspot number are out of phase. The quantities are related through a power law with a negative exponent of 2/3.

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Davis, J.M. X-ray bright points and the sunspot cycle: Further results and predictions. Sol Phys 88, 337–342 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00196197

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