Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-09-07
Astrophys.J.650:L143-L146,2006
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures embedded, accepted for publication in ApJL
Scientific paper
10.1086/508876
We investigated the frequency distributions of flares with and without coronal mass ejections (CMEs) as a function of flare parameters (peak flux, fluence, and duration of soft X-ray flares). We used CMEs observed by the Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) mission and soft X-ray flares (C3.2 and above) observed by the GOES satellites during 1996 to 2005. We found that the distributions obey a power-law of the form: dN/dX~X^-alpha, where X is a flare parameter and dN is the number of events recorded within the interval [X, X+dX]. For the flares with (without) CMEs, we obtained the power-law index alpha=1.98+-0.05 (alpha=2.52+-0.03) for the peak flux, alpha=1.79+-0.05 (alpha=2.47+-0.11) for the fluence, and alpha=2.49+-0.11 (alpha=3.22+-0.15) for the duration. The power-law indices for flares without CMEs are steeper than those for flares with CMEs. The larger power-law index for flares without CMEs supports the possibility that nanoflares contribute to coronal heating.
Akiyama Sanae
Gopalswamy Nat
Howard Russ A.
Yashiro Seiji
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