Abstract
The thermoluminescence (TL) profile of the GT14 Ionian Sea core has been recently analyzed in connection with other records of solar activity. Phenomenological similarities among the TL profile, the radiocarbon record in tree-rings and the variations of the mean anuual sunspot number Rz suggest a solar control of the TL signal. In this paper we consider new readings of the TL profile of the GT14 core which were obtained at different glow temperatures. While the main spectral peaks discussed in previous papers are observed in all readings, a few new significant periodic components may now be separated from the noise background. Among these, a strong 22 yr (Hale) cycle is evident, together with a periodicity of 28.5 yr which has already been detected in the spectrum of the sunspot number series. We finally test the temporal persistency of the main TL periodic components by using a cyclogram method and we explore the effects of background noise by considering the TL profile of bleached samples.
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