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A&A
Volume 590, June 2016
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Article Number | A63 | |
Number of page(s) | 13 | |
Section | The Sun | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201527993 | |
Published online | 12 May 2016 |
Reconstruction of spectral solar irradiance since 1700 from simulated magnetograms⋆
1
Astrophysics Group, Blackett Laboratory,
Imperial College London,
SW7 2AZ,
UK
e-mail:
m.dasi-espuig@imperial.ac.uk
2
Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung,
Justus-von-Liebig-Weg
3, 37077
Göttingen,
Germany
3
Key Laboratory of Solar Activity, National Astronomical
Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100012
Beijing, PR
China
4
School of Space Research, Kyung Hee University,
Yongin,
446-701
Gyeonggi,
Korea
Received: 17 December 2015
Accepted: 6 April 2016
Aims. We present a reconstruction of the spectral solar irradiance since 1700 using the SATIRE-T2 (Spectral And Total Irradiance REconstructions for the Telescope era version 2) model. This model uses as input magnetograms simulated with a surface flux transport model fed with semi-synthetic records of emerging sunspot groups.
Methods. The record of sunspot group areas and positions from the Royal Greenwich Observatory (RGO) is only available since 1874. We used statistical relationships between the properties of sunspot group emergence, such as the latitude, area, and tilt angle, and the sunspot cycle strength and phase to produce semi-synthetic sunspot group records starting in the year 1700. The semi-synthetic records are fed into a surface flux transport model to obtain daily simulated magnetograms that map the distribution of the magnetic flux in active regions (sunspots and faculae) and their decay products on the solar surface. The magnetic flux emerging in ephemeral regions is accounted for separately based on the concept of extended cycles whose length and amplitude are linked to those of the sunspot cycles through the sunspot number. The magnetic flux in each surface component (sunspots, faculae and network, and ephemeral regions) was used to compute the spectral and total solar irradiance (TSI) between the years 1700 and 2009. This reconstruction is aimed at timescales of months or longer although the model returns daily values.
Results. We found that SATIRE-T2, besides reproducing other relevant observations such as the total magnetic flux, reconstructs the TSI on timescales of months or longer in good agreement with the PMOD composite of observations, as well as with the reconstruction starting in 1878 based on the RGO-SOON data. The model predicts an increase in the TSI of 1.2+0.2-0.3 Wm-2 between 1700 and the present. The spectral irradiance reconstruction is in good agreement with the UARS/SUSIM measurements as well as the Lyman-α composite.
Key words: Sun: activity / solar-terrestrial relations / sunspots / Sun: magnetic fields
The complete total and spectral (115 nm–160 μm) irradiance reconstructions since 1700 will be available from http://www2.mps.mpg.de/projects/sun-climate/data.html
© ESO, 2016
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