Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 2012
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2012jgra..11703307l&link_type=abstract
Journal of Geophysical Research, Volume 117, Issue A3, CiteID A03307
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Atmospheric Composition And Structure: Thermosphere: Composition And Chemistry, Ionosphere: Ionosphere/Atmosphere Interactions (0335), Atmospheric Processes: Thermospheric Dynamics (0358), Solar Physics, Astrophysics, And Astronomy: Flares
Scientific paper
Previous studies show there are significant thermospheric responses to the two great solar flares on October 28, 2003 (X17.2) and November 4, 2003 (X28). In the present study, we further explored the thermospheric response to all X-class solar flares during 2001-2006. The observed results show that X5 and stronger solar flares can induce an average enhancement of 10-13% in thermospheric density in latitude 50°S-50°N within ˜4 h after the flare onset. Many important lines and continua in solar EUV region are optically thick, thus EUV enhancements are smaller for flares located near the solar limb due to absorption by the solar atmosphere. Limb flares induce smaller thermospheric responses, due to the limb effect of solar EUV. The thermospheric density enhancement is much more correlated with integrated EUV flux than with peak EUV flux, with a high correlation coefficient of 0.91, which suggests that thermospheric response is strongly dependent on the total integrated energy into the thermosphere.
Le Huijun
Liu Libo
Wan Weixing
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