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A Statistical Study of Flares as Self-Organized Critical Phenomena

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

Yoshinari Nakagawa
Yoshinari Nakagawa*
Affiliation:
Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino 275, Japan

Abstract

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The statistical property of flares is examined in terms of the number of flares versus its magnitude, i. e. the “Importance” reported in the IAU Quarterly Bulletin of Solar Activity for 1961–1983. It is shown that the number of flare and its magnitude follow a power law relationship indicative of the self-organized critical phenomenon, regardless of the phase of the solar cycle.

Type
Session 6. Flares and Transients
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 141: The Magnetic and Velocity Fields of Solar Active Regions , 1993 , pp. 369 - 372
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 1993

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