Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Dec 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994aas...185.8603n&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, 185th AAS Meeting, #86.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 26, p.1464
Mathematics
Logic
Scientific paper
A self-organized critical state can occur when a physical system continually driven toward instability tends to relax toward a stable state. As a result fluctuations can occur about a stable state that are characterized by 1/f noise in power output and power law distributions in size and energy output. Temporal variations in the number and area of sunspot groups exhibit 1/f noise and the distributions of sunspot group area and lifetime are power laws. These are hallmarks of a self-organized critical process. In addition, the distribution of solar flare size is a power law that extends over five orders of magnitude. Lu and Hamilton have published a model for solar flares that is based on the proposition that the coronal magnetic field is in a self-organized critical state and that flares are an avalanche of many small reconnection events. A logical extension of the Lu and Hamilton flare model can be used to simulate the temporal variations in the morphology of the magnetic field structure of a bipolar spot group. Simulations from such a model will be presented and compared with observations.
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