Preface ....................................................... xii
Organizing committee ......................................... xvii
Conference participants ..................................... xviii
I. INTRODUCTION
Chair: C. Fang
The Sun and stars as the primary energy input in
planetary atmospheres ........................................... 3
I. Ribas
II. OBSERVATIONS OF SOLAR AND STELLAR VARIABILITY
Chair: A.G. Kosovichev
One solar cycle of solar astrometry with MDI/SOHO .............. 21
M. Emilio, J.R. Kuhn and R. I. Bush
Helioseismic inferences ........................................ 33
H. Shibahashi
Variability of the solar spectral irradiance and energetic
particles ...................................................... 39
A. Silva-Válio
A solar cycle lengthwise series of solar diameter
measurements ................................................... 49
J.L. Penna, A.H. Andrei, S.C. Boscardin, E. Reis
Neto and V.A. d'Ávila
Solar-like stars seismology .................................... 55
D. Pricopi and M.D. Suran
Sounding stellar cycles with Kepler - preliminary results
from ground-based chromospheric activity measurements .......... 57
C. Karoff, T.S. Metcalfe, W.J. Chaplin, S. Frandsen,
F. Grundahl, H. Kjeldsen, D. Buzasi, T. Arentoft and
J. Christensen-Dalsgaard
Differential rotation on active late-type stars observed
with Corot ..................................................... 60
P. Gondoin, M. Fridlund, D. Gandolfi and
E. Güenter
A comparison of measured and simulated solar network
contrast ....................................................... 63
N. Afram, Y.C. Unruh, S.K. Solanki, M. Schülssler
and S.K. Mathew
Multifractal spectrum of solar active region NOAA 10960
in the HQ spectral line ........................................ 66
D. Batmunkh
Observed variations of the solar photospheric diameter ......... 72
S.C. Boscardin, E. Reis Neto, J. Penna, A.R.
Rodriguez Papa, A.H. Andrei and V.A. d'Ávila
The asymmetric light curves of the GSC 2764 1417 (And),
GSC 3355 0394 (Per) and GSC 2537 0520 (Psc) .................... 75
R.G. Samec, E.R. Figg, R. Melton, C.M. Labadorf,
J. Miller, R. McKenzie, D.R. Faulkner and
W. Van Hamme
The EUV spectral irradiance of the Sun from 1997 to date ....... 78
G. Del Zanna and V. Andretta
Semi-harmonic and intermittent solar decimetric spikes ......... 81
F.C.R. Fernandes, M.J.A. Bolzan, R.R. Rosa, J.A.S.S.
Dutra, J.R. Cecatto, H. Mészárosová and H.S. Sawant
The periodic variation of 6.7 days for total solar radiation ... 84
W.Q. Gan and Y.P.Li
Looking for variable stars in galactic open clusters ........... 87
C. Greco, N. Mowlavi, L. Eyer, M. Spano, M. Varadi
and G. Burki
Doppler imaging of the active star PW And ...................... 90
S.-H. Gu, A.C. Cameron and K.M. Kim
New Improvements of HASTA for the analysis of chomospheric
solar events ................................................... 93
L. Leuzzi, C. Francile, M.L. Luoni, M.G. Rovira
and J.I. Castro
Coronal magnetic fields from the inversion of linear
polarization measurements ...................................... 96
Y. Liu, H. Lin and J. Kuhn
Observation of interactions between two erupting filaments ..... 99
Y. Liu, J. Su, Y. Shen and L. Yang
Study of helicity properties of peculiar active regions ....... 102
M.C. López Fuentes, C. H. Mandrini and P. Démoulin
Automatic detection method, forecast and alert of solar
proton events ................................................. 105
G. Lin
III. SOLAR AND STELLAR CYCLES AND VARIABILITY ON CENTURY
TIMESCALE
Chair: J. Stenflo
Sunspot cycles and Grand Minima ............................... 111
D. Sokoloff, R. Arlt, D. Moss, S.H. Saar and
I. Usoskin
Stellar magnetic cycles ....................................... 120
A.F. Lanza
Do young Suns undergo magnetic reversals? ..................... 130
S.C. Marsden, S.V. Jeffers, J.-F. Donati,
M.W. Mengel, I.A. Waite and B.D. Carter
Long-term stellar variability ................................. 136
I.Pagano
The Cycles of Alpha Centauri .................................. 146
T.R. Ayres
Harmonic analysis approach to solar cycle prediction
the Waldmeier effect .......................................... 150
K. Petrovay
Solar cycles: the past evolution influence .................... 155
A. Klutsch and R. Freire Ferrero
IV. MAGNETIC ACTIVITY AND DYNAMb MECHANISMS
Chair: V. Martinez-Pilet
Towards understanding the global magnetism of the Sun and
solar-like stars .............................................. 161
A.S. Brun
The stellar magnetic dynamo during the evolution across
the main sequence ............................................. 171
S. Hubrig
Helicity of solar magnetic field from observations ............ 181
H. Zhang
Probability distribution functions for solar and
stellar magnetic fields ....................................... 191
J.O. Stenflo
Oscillatory migratory large-scale fields in mean-field
and direct simulations ........................................ 197
D. Mitra, R. Tavakol, A. Brandenburg and
P. J. Käpylä
Prediction of solar activity cycles by assimilating sunspot
data into a dynamo model ...................................... 202
I.N. Kitiashvili and A.G. Kosovichev
Transport of open magnetic flux between solar polar regions ... 210
A.A. Pevtsov and V.I. Abramenko
Surface temperature maps for II Peg during 1999-2002 .......... 213
M. Lindborg, M.J. Korpi, I. Tuominen, T. Hackman,
I. Ilyin and N. Piskunov
'Negative' surface differential rotation in stars having
low Coriolis numbers (slow rotation or high turbulence) ....... 219
K.L. Chan
Evolution of the large-scale magnetic field over three
solar cycles .................................................. 222
J.T. Hoeksema
V. PHYSICAL MECHANISMS OF SOLAR AND STELLAR VARIABILITY
Chair: H. Shibahashi
Mechanisms for total and spectral solar irradiance
variations .................................................... 231
M. Haberreiter
Large-scale patterns and 'active longitudes' .................. 241
V.N. Obridko
Is there more global solar activity on the Sun? ............... 251
J.X. Wang, Y.Z. Zhang, G.P. Zhou, Y.Y. Wen and
J. Jiang
Magnetic energy release: flares and coronal mass ejections .... 257
C.H. Mandrini
RS CVn binary IM Peg - investigation of stellar activity
and surface flows ............................................. 267
H. Korhonen, M. Weber, M. Wittkowski, T. Granzer
and K.G. Strassmeier
The mechanism of the light variability of chemically
peculiar stars ................................................ 270
J. Krtička, Z. Mikulášek, J. Zverko,
J. Žižňovský, G.W. Henry, J. Skalický and
P. Zvĕřina
Analysis of the event of 2004 November 10 ..................... 273
Yuan Ma and Liying Zhu
Study of the structures of the explosive events in the UV ..... 276
R.T. Niembro-Hernandez, J.E. Mendoza-Torres
and K. Wilhelm
Nonlinear analysis of decimetric solar bursts ................. 279
R.R. Rosa, M.J.A. Bolzan, F.C.R. Fernandes,
H.S. Sawant and M. Karlický
Plasma heating in the initial phase of solar flares ........... 282
P. Rudawy, M. Siarkowski and R. Falewicz
The influence of spicules in the solar radius at multiple
radio wavelengths ............................................. 285
C.L. Selhorst, A. Silva-Válio, P.A. Martins,
D.B. Seriacopi, P. Kaufmann and H. Levato
Stellar flare diagnostics from multi-wavelength
observations .................................................. 288
A.V. Stepanov, Y.T. Tsap and Y.G. Kopylova
The non-radial propagation of coronal streamers in
minimum activity epoch ........................................ 292
A.G. Tlatov and V.V. Vasil'eva
The formation of an equatorial coronal hole ................... 295
L. Yang, Y. Jiang and J. Zhang
VI. EFFECTS ON SPACE WEATHER AND CLIMATE
Chair: L. van Driel-Gesztelyi
New findings increasing solar trend that can change
Earth climate ................................................. 301
J.-P. Rozelot, C. Damiani and S. Lefebvre
Thermospheric temperature and density variations .............. 310
H. Fujiwara, Y. Miyoshi, H. Jin, H. Shinagawa,
Y. Otsuka, A. Saito and M. Ishii
Are there variations in Earth's global mean temperature
related to the solar activity? ................................ 320
O. Kjeldseth-Moe and S. Wedemeyer-Böhm
The CME link to geomagnetic storms ............................ 326
N. Gopalswamy
Lower and middle atmosphere and ozone layer responses to
solar variation ............................................... 336
A.G. Elias
Possible traces of solar activity effect on the surface
air temperature of mid-latitudes .............................. 343
A. Kilcik, A. Özgüç and J.-P. Rozelot
Influence of the solar radiation on Earth's climate using
the LMDz-REPROBUS model ....................................... 350
S. Lefebvre, M. Marchand, S. Bekki, P. Keckhut,
F. Lefèvre, C. Claud, D. Cugnet, G. Thuillier
and A. Hauchecorne
Solar cycle changes of large-scale solar wind structure ....... 356
P.K. Manoharan
Rapid solar wind and geomagnetic variability during the
ascendant phases of the 11-yr solar cycles .................... 359
G. Maris and O. Maris
Observation of non-Gaussianity and phase synchronization
in intermittent magnetic field turbulence in the solar-
terrestrial environment ....................................... 363
R.A. Miranda, A.C.-L. Chian, S. Dasso, E. Echer,
P.R. Muñoz, N.B. Trivedi, B.T. Tsurutani and
M. Yamada
Observation of magnetic reconnection and current sheets
in the solar wind ............................................. 369
P.R. Muñoz, A.C.-L. Chian, R.A. Miranda and
M. Yamada
VII. EFFECTS OF MAGNETIC ACTIVITY ON PLANET FORMATION
AND EVOLUTION
Chair: S. Hasan
Magnetic activity, high-energy radiation and variability:
from young solar analogs to low-mass objects .................. 375
M. Güdel
Stellar activity and magnetic shielding ....................... 385
J.-M. Grießmeier, M. Khodachenko, H. Lammer,
J.L. Grenfell, A. Stadelmann and U. Motschmann
Detailed characterization of stellar high energy
(FUV/EUV/X-ray) radiation fields during protoplanetary
system formation .............................................. 395
A. Brown
Impact of the solar magnetic cycle on a protoplanetary disk ... 401
A.G. Tlatov
Solar-terrestrial energy transfer during sunspot cycles
and mechanism of Earth rotation excitation .................... 404
Y. Chapanov and D. Gambis
Common 22-year cycles of Earth rotation and solar activity .... 407
Y. Chapanov, J. Vondrák and C. Ron
Manifestations of dark energy in the dynamics of the
Solar system .................................................. 410
M. Křížek and J. Brandts
Polarimetic search for exoplanets with a tangential
transit ....................................................... 413
L.V. Ksanfomality
VIII.IMPACT OF SOLAR AND STELLAR VARIABILITY ON
PLANETARY ATMOSPHERES AND CLIMATE
Chair: A.H. Andrei
Biological damage due to photospheric, chromospheric and
flare radiation in the environments of main-sequence stars .... 419
M. Cuntz, E.F. Guinan and R.L. Kurucz
Influence of the Schwabe/Hale solar cycles on climate change
during the Maunder Minimum .................................... 427
H. Miyahara, Y. Yokoyama and Y.T. Yamaguchi
STRESS - STEREO TRansiting Exoplanet and Stellar Survey ....... 434
V. Sangaralingam, I R. Stevens, S. Spreckley
and J. Debosscher
The influence of starspots activity on the determination
of planetary transit parameters ............................... 440
A. Silva-Valio
UV habitability and dM stars: an approach for evaluation
of biological survival ........................................ 443
X.C. Abrevaya, E. Cortón and P.J.D. Mauas
Evidence for climate variations induced by the 11-year
solar and cosmic rays cycles .................................. 446
W. Bruckman and E. Ramos
Synchronous manifestation of 160-min pulsations of the
ground pressure and Z-component of geomagnetic field
at Moscow, Apatity, Oulu, Yakutsk and Tixie ................... 449
V. Ye. Timofeev, D.G. Baishev, L.I. Miroshnichenko,
S.N. Samsonov and N.G. Skryabin
Manifestation of the Jupiter's synodic period in the solar
wind, interplanetary magnetic field and geophysical
parameters .................................................... 452
S.N. Samsonov and N.G. Skryabin
Exoplanet environments to harbour extremophile life ........... 455
E. Janot-Pacheco, C.A.S. Lage and I.G.P. Lima
IX. CURRENT AND FUTURE SPACE MISSIONS AND GROUND-BASED
OBSERVING PROGRAMS
Chair: C. Mandrini
Space solar missions .......................................... 459
J.-C. Vial
First thoughts on stellar variability from Kepler
commissioning data ............................................ 469
L.M. Walkowicz and G. Basri
Does the lunar regolith contain secrets of the Solar
System? Using the Moon as a cosmic witness plate .............. 475
D.S. McKay, L. Riofrio and B.L. Cooper
X-exoplanets: an X-ray and EUV database for exoplanets ........ 478
J. Sanz-Forcada, D. García-&Álvarez, A. Velasco,
E. Solano, I. Ribas, G. Micela and A. Pollock
Surveying RFI for a new Brazilian Solar Spectroscope site ..... 484
J.R. Cecatto, P.C.G. Albuquerque, I.O.G. Vila,
A.B. Cassiano, C. Strauss and F.C.R. Fernandes
The development of the Heliometer of the Observatorio
Nacional ...................................................... 487
V. d'&Ávila, E. Reis, J. Penna, L.C. Oliveira,
A. Coletti, V. Matias, A.H. Andrei and S. Boscardin
Brazilian Decimetric Array (BDA) project - Phase II ........... 493
C. Faria, S. Stephany, H.S. Sawant, J.R. Cecatto
and F.C.R. Fernandes
Catalogs of variable stars, current and future ................ 496
N.N. Samus, E.V. Kazarovets and O.V. Durlevich
The Indian National Large Solar Telescope (NLST) .............. 499
S.S. Hasan
X. SUMMARY, OPEN DISCUSSION, AND CLOSING REMARKS
Chair: J.-P. Rozelot
Concluding remarks on solar and stellar activities and
related planets ............................................... 507
S. Turck-Chièze
Author index .................................................. 525
Subject index ................................................. 529
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