Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or of the nature of a facula. See
facula .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Astron.) Of or pertaining to the faculæ.
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- adjective astronomy Of or pertaining to the
faculae .
Etymologies
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Examples
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The interpretations tend to link the sunspot cycle with both increased solar irradiance (through facular brightening) and the reduction in cosmic ray flux (through increased “open solar flux” – that is, an increased heliospheric magnetic field strength).
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They also noted that "Lean et al. (1995) proposed that the irradiance record could be divided into 2 superimposed components: an 11-year cycle based on the parameterization of sunspot darkening and facular brightening (Lean et al., 1992), and a slowly-varying background derived separately from studies of sun-like stars (Baliunas and Jastrow, 1990)," and that Solanki and Fligge (1998) had developed an even more convoluted technique.
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