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Kim Jik-su

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About 200-Year Cycle of Solar Activity in the Mediaeval Korean Records and Reconstructions from Cosmogenic Radionuclides

We investigated the Korean records of naked-eye sunspot observations and found an implication of periodicity of about 200-year. Adding the Chinese records we showed that the historical naked-eye sunspot observations have the similar periodicity. Recent some works showed that there would be no intrinsic periodicities except 11-year cycle. We adopt the new approach called samplogram to test sampling stability of cycles in terms of power spectra and difference series and show that the Suess/de Vries cycle of about 207-year is a deterministic cycle of the stochastic solar activity. Also we show that occurrences of grand minimum are not necessarily expected with the Suess/de Vries cycle and it is possible to appear double or multiple grand maxima without a grand minimum within them.

astro-ph.SR

A Special Class of the Scalar-Tensor Gravity with Scalar-Matter Direct Coupling

A role of the scalar-matter direct coupling in the evolution of scalar-tensor gravity was studied. If the coupling functions in the generalized scalar-tensor gravity satisfy a definite equation the scalar-tensor gravity is reduced to Einstein's tensor gravity. We consider the issue in Jordan frame and then Einstein frame. It is shown that the coupling strength in the right hand side of the master equation obtained in Damour and Nordtvedt(1993) must be added by a coupling strength $\hatβ$ which characterizes the scalar-matter direct coupling. If a minimum of potential $\ln C(φ)$ does not coincide with one of the potential $\ln A(φ)$ or the potential $\ln C(φ)$ does not have any minimum and is a monotonic function, then the attractor mechanism of scalar-tensor gravity toward pure general relativity should be modified, and the combined potential $\ln A(φ)+\ln C(φ)$ will determine the attractor mechanism.

gr-qc