A Comparison between the WATCH Flare Data Statistical Properties and Predictions of the Statistical Flare Model

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Oct 1999

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8th SOHO Workshop: Plasma Dynamics and Diagnostics in the Solar Transition Region and Corona. Proceedings of the Conference hel

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Solar burst observations in the deka-keV energy range originating from the WATCH experiment aboard the GRANAT spacecraft were used to perform frequency distributions built on measured X-ray flare parameters (Crosby et al., 1998). The results of the study show that: 1- the overall distribution functions are robust power laws extending over a number of decades. The typical parameters of events (total counts, peak count rates, duration) are all correlated to each other. 2- the overall distribution functions are the convolution of significantly different distribution functions built on parts of the whole data set filtered by the event duration. These "partial" frequency distributions are still power law distributions over several decades, with a slope systematically decreasing with increasing duration. 3- No correlation is found between the elapsed time interval between successive bursts arising from the same active region and the peak intensity of the flare. In this paper, we attempt a tentative comparison between the statistical properties of the self-organized critical (SOC) cellular automaton statistical flare models (see e.g. Lu and Hamilton (1991), Georgoulis and Vlahos (1996, 1998)) and the respective properties of the WATCH flare data. Despite the inherent weaknesses of the SOC models to simulate a number of physical processes in the active region, it is found that most of the observed statistical properties can be reproduced using the SOC models, including the various frequency distributions and scatter plots. We finally conclude that, even if SOC models must be refined to improve the physical links to MHD approaches, they nevertheless represent a good approach to describe the properties of rapid energy dissipation and magnetic field annihilation in complex and magnetized plasmas. Crosby N., Vilmer N., Lund N. and Sunyaev R., A&A; 334; 299-313; 1998 Crosby N., Lund N., Vilmer N. and Sunyaev R.; A&A Supplement Series; 130, 233, 1998 Georgoulis M. and Vlahos L., 1996, Astrophy. J. Letters, 469, L135 Georgoulis M. and Vlahos L., 1998, in preparation Lu E.T. and Hamilton R.J., 1991, Astroph. J., 380, L89

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