BHP universality and gaussianity in sunspot numbers fluctuations

2008/02/20 by R. Gonçalves, Rui Gonçalves, Gonçalves, R. +3
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · #Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #Space Physics (physics.space-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #Theoretical and Computational Physics #physics.data-an #physics.space-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0802.2880

4 pages, 1 figure

openalex publication_date 2008/02/20 · arxiv created 2008/03/15 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/04

Abstract

We analyze the famous Wolf's sunspot numbers. We discovered that the distribution of the sunspot number fluctuations is a mixture of the BHP distribution with the Gaussian distribution.

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