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Theoretical and Experimental Aspects of Solar Flares Manifestation in Radiocarbon Abundance in Tree Rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

A. N. Kostantinov
Affiliation:
1St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg 195251 Russia
V. A. Levchenko
Affiliation:
1St. Petersburg State Technical University, St. Petersburg 195251 Russia
G. E. Kocharov
Affiliation:
2Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg 194021 Russia
I. B. Mikheeva
Affiliation:
2Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute, St. Petersburg 194021 Russia
Stefano Cecchini
Affiliation:
3Istituto TESRE-CNR, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Menotti Galli
Affiliation:
4Dipartimento di Fisica, University di Bologna, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Teresa Nanni
Affiliation:
5lstituto FISBAT-CNR, 40126 Bologna, Italy
Pavel Povinec
Affiliation:
6Department of Nuclear Physics, Comenius University, Bratislava, Czecho-Slovakia
Livio Ruggiero
Affiliation:
7Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, University di Lecce, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Agostino Salomoni
Affiliation:
8ENEA-TIB, University degli Studi, 40136 Bologna, Italy
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We describe our method of determining solar cosmic-ray flux and spectrum in the past, based on the comparison of different cosmogenic isotopes. For the period, AD 1781–1950, we have detected several intervals with a high probability of powerful solar flares.

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