Friday, August 31, 2012

1208.6102 (Andrei Gorobets et al.)

Solar Flare Occurrence Rate and Waiting Times Statistics    [PDF]

Andrei Gorobets, Mauro Messerotti
We use the Renewal Theory for the estimation and interpretation of the flare rate from the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) soft X-ray flare catalogue. It is found that in addition to the flare rate variability with the solar cycles, a much faster variation occurs. The fast variation on time scales of days and hours down to minute scale appears to be comparable with time intervals between two successive flares (waiting times). The detected fast non-stationarity of the flaring rate is discussed in the framework of the previously published stochastic models of the waiting time dynamics.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.6102

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