Solar Cycle Structure and Structure of Activity Cycles at Late-Type Stars

Abstract

It is shown that a description of the solar cycle using the odd zonal harmonic of the solar magnetic field expands our capabilities in two important areas of solar research: first, in improving and expanding the forecast to the near future of evolution of the cyclic solar activity and, second, in developing a program for monitoring the spectrophotometric characteristics of radiation of solar-like stars, aimed at obtaining new information about their magnetic fields.