An analysis of the solar flare waiting time distribution

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Mar 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002esasp.477...31l&link_type=abstract

In: Proceedings of the Second Solar Cycle and Space Weather Euroconference, 24 - 29 September 2001, Vico Equense, Italy. Editor:

Physics

Solar Flares, X-Rays, Solar Activity, Mhd, Turbulence

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The distribution of waiting times between solar flares is examined, by means of soft X-ray data acquired by the GOES satellites. We show that a local Poisson hypothesis for the occurrence of solar flares is not consistent with observations. The waiting time distribution is well reproduced by a Lévy function, which gives a power law tail in the limit of large waiting times. This behavior indicates the occurrence of statistical self-similarity in the process and supports the idea that the flare sequence is characterized by the presence of temporal correlations.

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