[en] Complete text of publication follows. Several features of the solar north-south asymmetries are presented by using sunspot data of the Greenwich and Debrecen datasets. The solar cycles of the two hemispheres have certain phase shifts and differences in strength and these features exhibit a certain connection. These asymmetries may have some relevance to the solar dynamo. Possible terrestrial effects are also analysed.

[en] We have studied the annual and semiannual waves of the cosmic ray intensity for two neutron stations. We have found that an annual train of recurrences during 1959-69 is significant and may be attributed to the North-South asymmetry of the solar activity in the same time interval. We find also that semiannual wave possibly due to the oscillations of the Earth heliolatitude cannot be discovered by only analysing the 28 years-data series we have used

[en] A sidereal diurnal variation of north-south asymmetric type is examined, based on the data from conjugate pairs of neutron monitors and underground telescope for 1965-1979. A further confirmation is made using data from multi-directional meson telescope at ground level at Nagoya. It is shown that main part of the variation with a phase of 18 hr sidereal time is due to the annual modulation of solar anisotropy of the 2nd order, which produces the solar semi-diurnal variation. The residual variation with its phase of approximately 1 hr sidereal time is of galactic origin

[en] The three-dimensional spherical harmonic analyses of cosmic ray neutron data from the world-wide network stations were carried out by Nagashima's method on the basis of 27-day solar rotation period for the year, 1967. In this paper, the first zonal harmonic component obtained from the analysis is used as a measure of the cosmic ray north-south anisotropy, and the relationships between such a measure and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) are examined. The results obtained show that the north-south asymmetry is related closely to the IMF magnitude and the field direction angle in solar ecliptic coordinates

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[en] We report the results of a statistical analysis performed with the four foreground-cleaned Planck maps by means of a suitably defined local-variance estimator. Our analysis shows a clear dipolar structure in Planck's variance map pointing in the direction (l,b) ≅ (220°,-32°), thus consistent with the North-South asymmetry phenomenon. Surprisingly, and contrary to previous findings, removing the CMB quadrupole and octopole makes the asymmetry stronger. Our results show a maximal statistical significance, of 98.1% CL, in the scales ranging from ℓ=4 to ℓ=500. Additionally, through exhaustive analyses of the four foreground-cleaned and individual frequency Planck maps, we find unlikely that residual foregrounds could be causing this dipole variance asymmetry. Moreover, we find that the dipole gets lower amplitudes for larger masks, evidencing that most of the contribution to the variance dipole comes from a region near the galactic plane. Finally, our results are robust against different foreground cleaning procedures, different Planck masks, pixelization parameters, and the addition of inhomogeneous real noise

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[en] Complete text of publication follows. Simultaneous global imaging from space has revealed that the aurora can be significantly different in the two hemispheres. In this paper we report examples of large intensity differences and/or asymmetries and discuss what processes that can produce these differences.

[en] In this paper power spectra of cosmic ray intensity variations, solar activity and the acceleration of the sun due to the gravitational action of Solar system planets are given. (orig./WBU)

[en] The asymmetry of the green coronal line in the course of cycle No. 20 in favour of the northern hemisphere was most marked at the beginning of the cycle. A distinct decrease in the asymmetry in favour of the northern hemisphere occurred in the years 1967 to 1968, followed by a slight increase which lasted until 1971. After that, until nearly the end of the cycle, a slight asymmetry in favour of the southern hemisphere was observed. The course of the asymmetry of the coronal line 530.3 nm in the course of the cycle is thus very similar to the asymmetry obtained by Roy (1977) for sunspots, analysed according to the magnetic classification. The asymmetry of the coronal line 637.4 nm has no more expressive character for either hemisphere in the period being investigated, and it seems that it is rather random or only little affected by the activity of the underlying layers. The mean ionization temperature of the corona, determined from the ratio of intensities Isub(g)/Isub(r), reached its maximum value for the corona as a whole only in 1972 (t=1.77x10⁶ K). The marked ''deficit'' of the temperature, observed over the southern hemisphere in 1970 could be associated with the more frequent occurrence of coronal holes over this hemisphere in the year investigated. (author)