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Proceedings of the Twelfth NSO/Sacramento Peak...(1Jun92) Summer Workshop on the Solar Cycle (from NSO, NOAO Newsletter No. 30, 1 June 1992) The Proceedings of the Twelfth NSO/Sacramento Peak Summer Workshop on the Solar Cycle were completed in April and submitted to the PASP offices for publication. These 580-page Proceedings include 11 invited reviews and 47 contributions presented during the Workshop held at NSO/Sacramento Peak, 15-18 October 1991 and will appear as Volume 27 in the ASP Conference Series. The book is edited by K.L. Harvey (SPRC). It is divided into six parts, focussing on the six fundamental questions addressed during this meeting. These include (1) What does surface magnetic flux tell us about subsurface magnetic fields? (2) Is the flux we see at the surface causally involved in the solar cycle? How can we use stellar cycles to understand phenomena of the solar cycle? (3) Do the observed large-scale velocity patterns provide information concerning solar cycle mechanisms? (4) What does the "extended" solar cycle mean? (5) How does solar luminosity change during a solar cycle? What can we infer about the cycle mechanisms from stellar luminosity variations? and (6) Proposition: No existing model, either phenomenological or theoretical, of either solar or stellar cycles, deserves to be a paradigm. Brought to these strongly focussed topics is the expertise of both solar and stellar cycle researchers, observationalists and theoreticians, in an effort to resolve some of the activity cycle problems. These Proceedings are expected to be available by mid-June. Karen Harvey
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