Solar cycles are not related to Jupiter’s rotation. In this respect informs TASS with reference to the astronomers of SAI MSU.
This conclusion was reached when analyzing the rotation of exoplanets and its effects on stars in other solar systems. It is known that the activity of the Sun changes over the 11-year cycle. However, some astronomers suspect that this pattern may have been broken during current and past cycles, as scientists have observed very few sunspots and flares. Modern science has no explanation for this phenomenon as one of the possible causes considered to be the gravitational effect of giant planets.
To test this hypothesis, astronomers studied fluctuations in the activity of a large number of stars that had recently discovered outer worlds, studied the orbits of these planets, and calculated the gravitational force acting on the parent stars.
In total, astronomers managed to obtain this information for two dozen similar star systems, including Tau Ceti, Epsilon Eridani 51 Pegasi. As the scientists found, some worlds near these luminaries acted on the stars several times stronger than Jupiter, while other planets had almost no gravitational effect on the luminaries.
Despite such differences in the strength of the gravitational effect of exoplanets on the main luminaries, scientists have not been able to record a single clearly defined case in which the presence of a large and close to the star exoplanet was the main impetus for the start of activity. loops. In most cases, the giant planet’s rotation cycles did not coincide at all with periods of fluctuation in stellar activity.
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