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Harmony of the solar system
Author(s) -
Kotov V. A.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
astronomische nachrichten
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-3994
pISSN - 0004-6337
DOI - 10.1002/asna.201813475
Subject(s) - physics , observatory , astrophysics , astronomy , planet , magnetic field , quantum mechanics
From 1968 to 2017, the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory, the Wilcox Solar Observatory, and five other observatories performed more than 27 thousand daily measurements of the mean magnetic field of the Sun‐as‐a‐star. These data reveal the presence of the long‐term coherent periodicity P S = 13.4582(25) days, characterizing the four‐sector pattern of the magnetic Sun. To clear up the origin of this periodicity, motions of planets and massive satellites are considered in detail. It is shown that the best commensurate timescale of all those periodic motions is equal to P G = 13.4577(10) days, which agrees fairly well with P S (the probability of a chance coincidence is less than 2 × 10 −9 ). Physical nature of this odd P S – P G resonance is unknown, but it is supposed that the phenomenon is caused by coherent periodic fluctuations of the gravity field within the solar system.