| Abstract
| - New data on the mean magnetic field of the Sun (MMFS) as a star measured at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory in 1998-2001 are presented. The 34-year time series of the MMFS using similar data from three other observatories (1968-2001, with the total number of daily MMFS values N = 12 428), is considered. It is found that (a) the primary synodic period of the equatorial rotation of solar magnetic field, $P_odot = 26.929 \pm 0.015$ days, did not vary over the last 34 years, but (b) the average intensity H0 of the photospheric large-scale fields, by modulus, decreased by about 4.5% (with a confidence level of about 80%). The conclusion is made that the longer, 90-year, cycle might be responsible for this potential gradual decrease of H0. The average curve of MMFS variation as plotted with the primary rotational period $P_odot$ demonstrates an obvious N- S asymmetry of polarities, perhaps associated with the quadrupole component and “magnetic disequilibrium” of the Sun as a whole.
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