The 11 years solar cycle as the manifestation of the dark Universe

K. Zioutas,D. H. H. Hoffmann,Y. K. Semertzidis,M. Tsagri,V. Anastassopoulos,T. Papaevangelou

doi:10.1142/s0217732314400082

Abstract

Sun's luminosity in the visible changes at the 10-3 level, following the 11 years period. This variation increases with energy, and in X-rays, which should not even be there, the amplitude varies up to ~ 105 times stronger, making their mysterious origin since the discovery in 1938 even more puzzling, and inspiring. We suggest that the multifaceted mysterious solar cycle is due to some kind of dark matter streams hitting the Sun. Planetary gravitational lensing enhances (occasionally) slow moving flows of dark constituents toward the Sun, giving rise to the periodic behavior. Jupiter provides the driving oscillatory force, though its 11.8 years orbital period appears slightly decreased, just as 11 years, if the lensing impact of other planets is included. Then, the 11 years solar clock may help to decipher (overlooked) signatures from the dark sector in laboratory experiments or observations in space.

Highlights

The nearby Sun is full of large and small mysteries, with its unnatural hot outer atmosphere being the mostly impressive one, with an anomalous strong temperature rise being quasi steplike
We suggest that the multifaceted mysterious solar cycle is due to some kind of dark matter streams hitting the Sun
As the most obvious and promising potential mechanism behind such a planetary impact on the Sun, it has been considered gravitational tidal forces acting on the Sun, mainly by Jupiter; their periodicity drifts towards the solar cycle, if a few other inner solar planets are included when summing up their periodic tidal impact

Summary

Introduction

The nearby Sun is full of large and small mysteries, with its unnatural hot outer atmosphere being the mostly impressive one, with an anomalous strong temperature rise being quasi steplike. It was shown recently [9] that Jupiter can cause, in the ideal case, a flux increase at its focal plane of as much as by a factor of 106, assuming incident streaming particle candidates from the dark sector with the aforementioned speeds As it was pointed out for KK-axions, it is not unreasonable to assume that such or other slow moving dark fluxes do exist; they may reach the solar system either as some sort of streaming dark matter, or, they may come from some point-like sources in the sky. The various planetary configurations elaborated for the tidal scenario can be taken over for this work, as it gives the time-variable influx of focused directional dark constituents This additional influx must interact with the Sun and cause a considerable influence, whatever the underlying process is at the end (see below)

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