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| Name: Srinjana Routh Affiliation: Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences Conference ID: ASI2025_116 Title : On the possibility of using Polar Filaments as precursors to understanding the solar cycle using historical data. Authors and Co-Authors : Srinjana Routh 1, Subhamoy Chatterjee 2, Dibyendu Nandi 3, 4, Dipankar Banerjee 3, 5, 6 Abstract Type : Oral Abstract Category : Sun, Solar System, Exoplanets, and Astrobiology Abstract : The long-term evolution of solar filaments is closely related to the large-scale solar cycle, with their parameters tracing the solar surface magnetic fields and have been long thought to contribute to the polar fields of the next cycle. In this study, we utilize adaptive intensity thresholding algorithm on the archival carrington maps from Meudon observatory and Mcintosh archive encompassing cycles 16 to 23 to extract polar filaments and their parameters, length and area, to see if polar filaments can be identified as precursors to the succeeding cycle strength. Our study suggests that the polar filament area is a possibly better parameter as a candidate for a precursor to the polar field and hence, the next solar cycle. |