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IAU Symposium 286 on Comparative Magnetic Minima
Mendoza, Argentina
October 3-7,2011



References

Please note that this cannot be a comprehensive listing of all papers, from Sun to Earth, regarding the solar cycle. We have tried to focus on studies of particular relevance to solar minima, and in particular those that compare more than one minima. Also, we are biassed towards more recent papers, since these include observational analysis of the current solar minimum, and include within them references to past analyses. We encourage readers to explore such embedded references for a proper understanding of the field.


Special Issues/Proceedings

  • SOHO-23 Conference Proceedings S.R. Cranmer, J.T. Hoeksema and J.L. Kohl (eds.) SOHO-23: Understanding a Peculiar Solar Minimum, ASP Conf. Series, Vol. 428, Astron. Soc. Pac., San Francisco ASP link

  • 2009 IAU JD16 Proceedings

  • Eddy Symposium Presentations

    Stellar Activity Cycles

  • The cycles of Alpha Centauri, (Ayres, 2009), ADS link

  • High-amplitude, long-term X-ray variability in the solar-type star HD 81809: the beginning of an X-ray activity cycle?, (Favata et al., 2004), ADS link

  • CoRoT Reveals a Magnetic Activity Cycle in a Sun-Like Star, (Garcia et al, 2010), ADS link

  • Coronal activity cycles in 61 Cygni, (Hempelmann et al., 2006), ADS link

  • Lithium Abundance in Solar-type Stars with Low Chromospheric Activity: Application to the Search for Maunder Minimum Analogs, (Lubin et al, 2010), ADS link

  • Patterns of variation among Sun-like stars, (Radick et al, 1998), ADS link

  • X-ray activity in stellar clusters, (Stern, 2001), ADS link

  • Chromospheric variations in main-sequence stars, (Wilson, 1978), ADS link


    Paleo/Grand Minima

  • Monopolar structure of the Sun in between polar reversals and in Maunder Minimum, (Callebaut et al.,2007) ADS link

  • On the effect of a new grand minimum of solar activity on the future climate on Earth, (Fuelner and Rahmstorf, 2010) ADS link

  • The Solar Cycle, (Hathaway, 2010) ADS link

  • Dynamo hysteresis and grand minima of solar activity (Kitchatinov and Olemskoy., 2010), ADS link

  • An upper limit of sunspot activity during the Maunder minimum, (Kovaltsov et al., 2004), ADS link

  • The solar cycle at the Maunder minimum epoch (Miyahara et al., 2006), paper link

  • Solar grand minima and random fluctuations in dynamo parameters, (Moss et al., 2008), ADS link

  • The Maunder minimum: North-south asymmetry in sunspot formation, mean sunspot latitudes, and the butterfly diagram, (Nagovitsyn et al., 2010), ADS link

  • Long-Term Changes in Sunspot Activity, Occurrence of Grand Minima, and Their Future Tendencies, (Mordvinov and Kramynin, 2010), ADS link

  • Heliospheric modulation of cosmic rays and solar activity during the Maunder minimum (Usoskin et al., 2001), ADS link

  • Grand minima and maxima of solar activity: new observational constraints (Usoskin et al., 2007), ADS link

  • Grand minima of solar activity and the mean-field dynamo (Usoskin et al., 2009), ADS link

  • A history of solar activity over millenia (Usoskin, 2010), Living Review link


    Solar Dynamo and Flows

  • Solar Rotation Rate During the Cycle 24 Minimum in Activity (Antia and Basu, 2009), ADS link

  • Characteristics of Solar Meridional Flows during Solar Cycle 23 (Basu and Antia, 2009), ADS link

  • Sunspot group tilt angles and the strength of the solar cycle (Dasi-Espuig et al., 2010), ADS link

  • Impact of changes in the Sun's conveyor-belt on recent solar cycles(Dikpati et al., 2010), ADS link

  • Meridional Circulation During the Extended Solar Minimum: Another Component of the Torsional Oscillation? (Gonzalez Hernandez et al., 2009), ADS link

  • Variations in the Sun’s Meridional Flow over a Solar Cycle ( Hathaway and Rightmire, 2010), ADS link

  • A note on the torsional oscillation at solar minimum (Howe et al., 2009), ADS link

  • The Effect of Activity-related Meridional Flow Modulation on the Strength of the Solar Polar Magnetic Field (Jiang et al., 2010), ADS link

  • Unusual Trends in Solar P-Mode Frequencies During the Current Extended Minimum (Tripathy et al., 2010), ADS link


    Solar Irradiance and Photospheric Flux

  • Solar cycle minimum measurements of the solar extreme ultraviolet spectral irradiance on 14 April 2008 (Chamberlin et al., 2009)   ADS link

  • Highest resolution observations of the quietest Sun (Goode et al., 2009)   preprint link

  • Calculation of the Solar UV/EUV Spectrum in Spherical Symmetry (Haberreiter and Fontela, 2009), ADS link

  • The behavior of the 17 GHz solar radius and limb brightening in the spotless minimum XXIII/XXIV (Selhorst et al., 2011), Preprint

  • Solar spectral irradiance variability in the ultraviolet from SORCE and UARS SOLSTICE (Snow et al., 2010)   ADS link

  • Solar Irradiance Reference Spectra (SIRS) for the 2008 Whole Heliosphere Interval (WHI) (Woods et al., 2009)   ADS link


    Corona-Heliosphere Structure

  • Low-Latitude Coronal Holes at the Minimum of the 23rd Solar Cycle (Abramenko et al., 2010) ADS link

  • The Sun's Magnetic Field During The Past Two Minima (de Toma and Arge, 2010) ADS link

  • Solar Cycle 23: An Unusual Solar Minimum? (de Toma et al., 2010) ADS link

  • Electron properties of high-speed solar wind from polar coronal holes obtained by Ulysses thermal noise spectroscopy: Not so dense, not so hot (Issautier et al., 2009) ADS link

  • Automated detection of EUV polar coronal holes during solar cycle 23 (Kirk et al., 2009) ADS link

  • The Solar Wind as Seen by SOHO/SWAN Since 1996: Comparison with SOHO/LASCO C2 Coronal Densities (Lallement et al., 2010)   ADS link

  • How the Solar Wind Ties to its Photospheric Origins (Leamon and McIntosh, 2009)   ADS link

  • Coronal Field Opens at Lower Height During the Solar Cycles 22 and 23 Minimum Periods: IMF Comparison Suggests the Source Surface Should Be Lowered (Lee et al., 2010) Preprint

  • Organization of Energetic Particles by the Solar Wind Structure During the Declining to Minimum Phase of Solar Cycle 23 (Lee et al., 2010), ADS link

  • The solar wind at 1 AU during the declining phase of solar cycle 23: Comparison of 3D numerical model results with observations (Lee et al., 2009), ADS link

  • STEREO and ACE Observations of CIR Particles, (Leske et al., 2009)

  • Multipoint observations of corotating interaction regions from STEREO and ACE, (Leske et al., 2009)

  • Solar wind sources in the late declining phase of cycle 23: Effects of weak solar polar field on high speed streams (Luhmann et al., 2009), ADS link

  • Weaker solar wind from the polar coronal holes and the whole Sun (McComas et al., 2008(), ADS link

  • Anomalies in the Evolution of Global and Large-Scale Solar Magnetic Fields as the Precursors of Several Upcoming Low Solar Cycles, (Obridko and Shelting, 2009)

  • Conservation of open solar magnetic flux and the floor in the heliospheric magnetic field, (Owens et al., 2008), ADS link

  • On the relationship between coronal heating, magnetic flux, and the density of the solar wind, (Riley et al., 2010,ADS link

  • On the "Extended" Solar Cycle in Coronal Emission, (Robbrecht et al., 2010,ADS link

  • How unprecedented a solar minimum?, (Russell et al., 2010,GRL link

  • Does a polar coronal hole's flux emergence follow a Hale-like law?, (Savcheva et al., 2009,ADS link

  • Magnetic Flux Balance in the Heliosphere, (Schwadron et al., 2010), ADS link

  • A century of polar faculae variations, (Sheeley, 2009), ADS link

  • Interplanetary and Ionosphere Scintillation Monitoring of Radio Sources Ensemble at the Solar Activity Minimum, (Shishov et al, 2010), ADS link

  • Decrease in heliospheric magnetic flux in this solar minimum: Recent Ulysses magnetic field observations, (Smith and Balogh, 2008), ADS link

  • Non-dipolar solar wind structure observed in the cycle 23/24 minimum, (Tokumaru et al., 2009), ADS link

  • Solar cycle evolution of the solar wind speed distribution from 1985 to 2008 (Tokumaru et al., 2010), ADS link

  • The Non-radial Propagation of Coronal Streamers within a Solar Cycle (Tlatov, 2010), JGR link

  • Observation of the multifractal spectrum in solar wind turbulence by Ulysses at high latitudes, (Wawrzaszek and Wieslaw, 2010), ADS link

  • The Variation of Solar Wind Correlation Lengths Over Three Solar Cycles, (Wicks et al., 2010), ADS link


    Cosmic Rays

  • On relation of the long period galactic cosmic rays intensity variations with the interplanetary magnetic field turbulence, (Alania et al.,2010) ADS link

  • Long-term modulation of galactic cosmic rays at solar activity minimums(Gushchina et al., 2010) ADS link

  • Solar Cycle Dependence of the Diurnal Anisotropy of 0.6 TeV Cosmic-ray Intensity Observed with the Matsushiro Underground Muon Detector, (Munakta et al., 2010), ADS link

  • Role of the sun's non-axisymmetric open flux in cosmic-ray modulation, (Wang and Sheeley, 2006), ADS link

  • Interplanetary magnetic field during the past 9300 years inferred from cosmogenic radionuclides (Steinhilber et al., 2010), JGR link


    Sun's influence at Earth

  • J. Atmos. Sol.-Terr. Phys., Volume 73, Issue 1, Pages 1-178 (January 2011) Special Section: Magnetospheric Response to Solar Wind Discontinuities


  • Seasonal, Kp, solar wind, and solar flux variations in long-term single-pass satellite estimates of electron and ion auroral hemispheric power (Emery et al., 2008) ADS link

  • Record-low thermospheric density during the 2008 solar minimum (Emmert et al., 2010) ADS link

  • If the Sun is so quiet, why is the Earth ringing? A comparison of two solar minimum intervals (Gibson et al., 2009)   JGR link

  • Solar influences on dynamical coupling between the stratosphere and troposphere (Haigh and Blackburn, 2006) ADS link

  • The Sun and the Earth's climate (Haigh, 2007 ) Living Review in Solar Physics

  • Ionosphere response to solar wind high-speed streams (Lei et al., 2008), ADS link

  • Impact of CIR Storms on Thermosphere Density Variability during the Solar Minimum of 2008 (Lei et al., 2010), ADS link

  • Space weather: research towards applications in Europe, (J. Lilensten (ed.), Springer link

  • Influences of ozone depletion, the solar cycle and the QBO on the Southern Annular Mode, (Roscoe and Haigh, 2007), Q. J. R. Meteorol. Soc., 133, 1855.

  • Anomalously low solar extreme-ultraviolet irradiance and thermospheric density during solar minimum (Solomon et al., 2010), preprint

  • Observations of ionospheric heating during the passage of solar coronal hole fast streams (Sojka et al., 2009), GRL link

  • Coronal holes and solar wind high-speed streams: II. Forecasting the geomagnetic effects, (Vrsnak et al., 2007), ADS link

  • Understanding the geomagnetic precursor of the solar cycle, (Wang and Sheeley, 2009), ADS link


  • CAWSES: Climate and weather of the Sun-Earth system



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