  This paper is in response to a technical paper, entitled "Evidence for a New
Component of High-Energy Solar Gamma-Ray Production" (Linden, et al., 2018). An
article in Scientific American entitled "The Sun Is Spitting Out Strange
Patterns of Gamma Rays-and No One Knows Why" is a discussion of Linden's paper.
It may be summarized as follows: The Sun has been observed to be emitting gamma
ray bursts. The weaker gamma rays tend to be less than 50 GeV, emitted during
the most active energetic period of the solar cycle and towards the poles. The
gamma-ray emission is most intense during Solar Minimum, reaching >100 GeV and
those emissions are near the equator: "Most strikingly, although 6 gamma rays
above 100 GeV are observed during the 1.4 years of solar minimum, none are
observed during the next 7.8 years (Linden, et al., 2018)." Pease and Glenn, in
the conclusion of a recent paper, suggested that solar cycles are regulated by
planetary orbital positions, influencing the Sun through transfer of
gravitational or electromagnetic forces, or both (Pease & Glenn, 2016). This
paper will describe a working hypothesis that points strongly to
electromagnetic connections between Jupiter, Saturn, and the Sun during Solar
Minimum which contribute to the high gamma-ray energy observed being emitted by
the Sun. The hypothesis further suggests that the electromagnetic connections
between the Sun and Jupiter, Saturn, and other planets with magnetospheres,
namely Neptune, Earth, and Uranus, are responsible over billions of years for
modulating a dual electromagnetic field resonance internal to the Sun. These
major periodic cycles are known as the 11-year Schwabe and 22-year Hale solar
cycles.
