HR: 08:00h
AN: NG21A-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: What We Can Learn From Solar Flare Statistics
AU: * Longcope, D
EM: dana@solar.physics.montana.edu
AF: Montana State University, Dept. of Physics, Bozeman, MT 59717 United States
AB: Solar flares are caused by the rapid release of magnetic energy. Related events corresponding to the release of smaller energies such as microflares and transient brightenings occur more frequently. It has been found that the frequency of events is related to their energy by an inverse power law. This and several other statistical relationships have been used by several investigators as clues to the fundamental nature of solar flares. This talk will review some of the recent models, including cellular automata, relating the nature of flares to their statistics. This work was supported by NSF grant ATM 97227
DE: 7519 Flares
SC: Nonlinear Geophysics [NG]
MN: 2004 AGU Fall Meeting