Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 1979
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979a%26a....80..218t&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 80, no. 2, Dec. 1979, p. 218-226.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
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Solar Flares, Solar X-Rays, Computerized Simulation, Curve Fitting, Data Reduction, Eigenvalues, Power Spectra, Solar Oscillations, Time Response
Scientific paper
The paper considers principal component analysis of solar flares in the soft X-ray flux, a technique for extracting the salient features from a mass of data. The method applies particularly to the analysis of nonstationary ensembles, and its computations require the evaluation of eigenvalues of matrices. The Eispack matrix eigen system routines were used to analyze full-disk proportional-counter data from the X-ray event analyzer which was part of the Skylab experiment. Empirical orthogonal functions were derived for events in the soft X-ray spectrum between 2.5 and 20 A during different time periods, indicating that about 90% of the cumulative power of each analyzed flare is contained in the largest eigenvector. The first two largest eigenvectors are sufficient for an empirical curve fit through the raw data and a characterization of solar flares in the soft X-ray flux, and power spectra of two largest eigenvectors reveal a reported periodicity of about 5 min.
Reichmann Edwin J.
Teuber D. L.
Wilson Ryan M.
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