High Flare Activity in the Late Declining Phase of Cycle 23

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Apr 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006soph..234..409b&link_type=abstract

Solar Physics, Volume 234, Issue 2, pp.409-419

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In the declining phase of the current solar cycle (23), a large number of major flares were produced. In this cycle, the monthly sunspot number continuously remained below 100 since October 2002. However, during four epochs since then, flare activity became very high. Compared to this, each of cycles 21 and 22 produced only one epoch of high activity in the declining phase. In the declining phase of cycle 20, similarly to this cycle, there were four epochs of high flare activity. During 2003 and 2004, the distribution of flare sizes measured in GOES classes was much harder (i.e., proportionately more energetic flares) than during the maximum years. Such pronounced hardening of the size distribution was not observed in the previous cycles. It is of theoretical interest to understand why some cycles are very active in the declining phase, and the high level of activity in the declining phase has practical implications for planning solar observations and forecasting space weather.

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