Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-11-20
Astron.Astrophys. 436 (2005) 355
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
8 pages, 13 figures. Submitted to Astronomy&Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20042360
A convenient and widely used way to study the turbulent plasma in the solar corona is to do statistics of properties of events (or structures), associated with flares, that can be found in observations or in numerical simulations. Numerous papers have followed such a methodology, using different definitions of an event, but the reasons behind the choice of a particular definition (and not another one) is very rarely discussed. We give here a comprehensive set of possible event definitions starting from a one-dimensional data set such as a time-series of energy dissipation. Each definition is then applied to a time-series of energy dissipation issued from simulations of a shell-model of magnetohydrodynamic turbulence as defined in Giuliani and Carbone (1998), or from a new model of coupled shell-models designed to represent a magnetic loop in the solar corona. We obtain distributions of the peak dissipation power, total energy, duration and waiting-time associated to each definition. These distributions are then investigated and compared, and the influence of the definition of an event on statistics is discussed. In particular, power-law distributions are more likely to appear when using a threshold. The sensitivity of the distributions to the definition of an event seems also to be weaker for events found in a highly intermittent time series. Some implications on statistical results obtained from observations are discussed.
Buchlin Eric
Galtier Sebastien
Velli M. M.
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