Understanding Solar Activity after the Maunder Minimum: Sunspot Records by Rost and Alischer
V. M. S. Carrasco,
A. J. P. Aparicio,
T. Chatzistergos
et al.
Abstract:The Maunder Minimum was a period with significantly reduced solar activity between 1645 and 1715, approximately. The transition between the low solar activity in the Maunder Minimum and the subsequent “normal” regime of solar activity was gradual. However, there are discrepancies in the solar activity level from sunspot number indices and solar activity proxies in that period. Among the contemporaneous observers, Johann L. Rost and Sebastian Alischer were two key sunspot observers to understand the solar activ… Show more
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