Power Laws in Solar Flares: Self-Organized Criticality or Turbulence?

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1999-04-23

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9904043v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

4 pages, 4 postscript figures. Submitted to Physical Review Letters

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4662

We study the time evolution of Solar Flares activity by looking at the statistics of quiescent times $\tau_{L}$ between successive bursts. The analysis of 20 years of data reveals a power law distribution with exponent $\alpha \simeq 2.4$ which is an indication of complex dynamics with long correlation times. The observed scaling behavior is in contradiction with the Self-Organized Criticality models of Solar Flares which predict Poisson-like statistics. Chaotic models, including the destabilization of the laminar phases and subsequent restabilization due to nonlinear dynamics, are able to reproduce the power law for the quiescent times. In the case of the more realistic Shell Model of MHD turbulence we are able to reproduce all the observed distributions.

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