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The long-term history of the Sun is patchy, being based mainly on the implications of the Standard Solar Model and the record of flares recovered from the lunar regolith and meteorites exposed to cosmic rays at different times. However the fossil neutrino evidence, especially from tellurides, may eventually provide successive snapshots of the solar interior. Cyclical and aperiodic changes in TSI and UV are well documented for recent millennia, although they may turn out to be minor oscillations with wavelengths measured in ≥104 yr, and they provide the basis for approximate but robust forecasts for solar behaviour and its impact on space weather and terrestrial climate.
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Vita-Finzi, C. (2013). Lessons from History. In: Solar History. SpringerBriefs in Astronomy. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4295-6_9
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