The Role of Long-Duration X-ray Solar Flares in the Generation of Interplanetary Disturbances

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Nov 2001

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Solar System Research, v. 35, Issue 6, p. 505-512 (2001).

Computer Science

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At present, it is widely believed that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) rather than solar flares, as assumed previously, are the sources of sporadic interplanetary disturbances. CMEs are an integral part of the powerful nonstationary processes that in many cases give rise to long-decay flares (LDFs). We numerically simulate the energy balance in a giant loop that forms during a LDF. For geoefficient disk flares, we show that maintaining the observed X-ray flux requires a prolonged input of a substantial amount of energy into this loop from above, from the region of primary energy release (probably, from a vertical current sheet). Part of the energy from this region propagates outward both at the onset of the process, with plasmoid ejections, and during the prolonged dynamic phase, thereby enhancing the CME. Using the series of LDFs in March 1993 as an example, we consider the role of flares in producing the corresponding interplanetary disturbances. The large amplitude of the Forbush effect and the strong interplanetary disturbance on March 8-10 near the Earth and on March 15 at a heliocentric distance of about 5 AU (Ulysses) are shown to have been associated with the long-duration flare of March 6, 1993. The March 1993 events give a typical example of CME and magnetic-configuration opening that result in post-CME energy release. This is accompanied by the appearance of new arch systems inside the active region and/or by the development of giant loop systems outside. Such a process enhances CME and increases its geoefficiency.

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