Monthly Archives: June 2019

128. Evolution of Magnetic Helicity in Solar Cycle 24

Contributed by V.V. Pipin. Posted on June 25, 2019

A novel approach is developed to reconstruct the surface magnetic helicity density for the Sun or sun-like stars. The method is applied on the SDO/HMI-observed vector field synoptic data to study the temporal evolution of the Sun’s magnetic helicity density during Solar Cycle 24.

126. Solar Oblateness and Its Variations in Phase with the 22-yr Magnetic Cycle

Contributed by Abdanour Irbah. Posted on June 18, 2019

The Sun’s oblateness shows a variation with solar cycles, in phase with the solar activity level in Cycle 23 but in anti-phase with the activity level in Cycle 24. Such a trend of in-phase during odd cycles and anti-phase during even cycles is confirmed after examining past observations.