Determination of the correlation coefficient of selected short-periodic comets of the Jupiter family and solar activity

Abstract

The paper presents the study of the dependence between photometric parameters of selected short-period comets of the Jupiter family and the activity of the Sun. As a quantity of solar activity, we used the sunspot area, the Wolf number, the annual mean solar radio flux, the solar flare index (full disk), and the annual mean AA-index solar activity. To study the correlation between cometary and solar activity the Dobrovolsky method was used. It has been found no direct correlation between the absolute stellar magnitude and the photometric parameter of comets with individual parameters of solar activity. Moreover, the correlation coefficients show that some comets are not associated with solar activity.