2026-05-28 バーミンガム大学
A split image showing an active Sun during solar maximum (left, in 2014) and a quiet Sun during solar minimum (right, in 2019) – credit: NASA/SDO.
＜関連情報＞
- https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2026/listening-to-the-sun-reveals-previously-hidden-changes-to-solar-cycle
- https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/549/2/stag847/8694735?login=false
連続する11年周期の太陽活動サイクルに伴う地下構造の変化は、次第に地表付近に限定されるようになってきている：BiSONによる第22～25サイクルに関する新たな太陽地震学的結果 Subsurface structural changes associated with successive 11-yr solar activity cycles have been progressively more confined near the surface: new helioseismic results on Cycles 22–25 from BiSON
William J Chaplin,Sarbani Basu,Rachel Howe,Yvonne Elsworth,Steven J Hale,Eleanor Murray
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Published:28 May 2026
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stag847
ABSTRACT
We use Sun-as-a-star helioseismology data, collected by the Birmingham Solar-Oscillations Network, to examine the relationship between the solar-cycle-induced frequency shifts of whole-Sun, low-angular degree solar p modes and well-known proxies of global solar activity. Changes in behaviour between the low-frequency modes and proxies, which in a previous study we found had occurred on the declining phase of Cycle 23, appear to have persisted into Cycle 25. More striking is a significant change in the relationship for higher-frequency modes, which the new Cycle 25 data now reveal. The observed mean frequency shifts in Cycle 25 are much stronger than one would expect for these modes based on the relationship between the frequencies and proxies seen in previous cycles, in particular Cycle 22. In sum, Cycle 25 is as strong as Cycles 22 and 23 when observed in this higher-frequency seismic band, in marked contrast to the relative sizes of the cycles seen in the global activity proxies, where Cycle 25 is noticeably weaker. When considered alongside a systematic reduction of the sensitivity of the mid-frequency modes to activity over the past three cycles, these results suggest that subsurface structural changes associated with successive 11-yr cycles are becoming ever more progressively confined just beneath the solar surface.
