The sunspot as an autonomous dynamical system: A model for the growth and decay phases of sunspots

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 379, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 436-458

  Livadiotis, George ^a   Moussas, Xenophon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fitting methods; Sensitivity of fitting methods; Solar granules; Sunspots

Indexed keywords

DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS; FUNCTION EVALUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS;

DECAY LAWS; FITTING METHODS; SOLAR GRANULES; SUNSPOTS;

SOLAR ENERGY;

EID: 34247507200     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2007.02.003     Document Type: Article

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