Solar Papers

 

 

Below is my list my published solar papers and articles:

·      Meadows, P.J., ‘SOHO/MDI and SDO/HMI Sunspot Area Measurement and Analysis’, RAS Techniques and Instruments, Volume 4, 2025, https://doi.org/10.1093/rasti/rzaf024.

·     Peter Meadows, 'Solar Differential Rotation', Accepted for publication in the Journal of the British Astronomical Association, May 2025.

·      Peter Meadows, 'The Size of the Carrington Sunspot Group', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 134, 215-216 (2024). A summary of this paper,  'Size doesn't matter for sunspots', appeared in the News section of Royal Astronomical Society's Astronomy and Geophysics (A&G) publication in August 2024 (vol. 65, p4.5).

·     C. Alexandra Hart, Matt Penn & Peter Meadows, 'Multiwavelength observations of polar faculae', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 132, 23-30 (2022).

·      Peter Meadows, 'The five greatest sunspot groups', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 131, 375-383 (2021). A book based on this paper plus the great sunspot groups from 1989 & 2014 is available.  This also shows the passage across the solar disk of further 24 great sunspot groups and an area measurement of the Carrington Event sunspot group from 1st September 1859.

·      Peter Meadows, 'Sunspot groups without active region numbers', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 131, 145-157 (2021).

·      Peter Meadows, Lyn Smith & John Cook, 'A comparison of BAA Solar Section white-light measurements', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 131, 22-26 (2021).

·      Peter Meadows, ‘Solar Observing’, Article in Yearbook of Astronomy 2021, Pen and Sword Books Ltd., ISBN 9781526771872. October 2020.

·      Meadows, P.J., ‘Remeasurement of Solar Observing Optical Network sunspot areas’, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 497, Issue 1, September 2020, Pages 1110–1114, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/staa2007.

·      Peter Meadows, 'Observing Polar Faculae', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 130, 246-248 (2020).

·      Peter Meadows, 'The BAA Solar Section observation databases', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 129, 326-328 (2019).

·      Peter Meadows, Lyn Smith & John Cook, 'The larger sunspot groups of Cycle 24', J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 129, 222-231 (2019).

·      Peter Meadows, ‘AR 12536: An unusual bipolar sunspot group’, J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 127, 23-24 (2017).

·      Peter Meadows, ‘The parallactic angle and the solar observer’, J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 117, 35-36 (2007).

·      Peter Meadows, ‘The measurement of sunspot area’, J. Brit. Astron. Assoc., 112, 353-356 (2002).