Prediction of the Temporal Evolution of Solar X-Ray Flares

by Aaron J. Williams

A solar flare is an explosive release of stored magnetic energy on the Sun. Much of this energy is converted into x-ray photons which escape into space. As a solar flare begins, the 1-8 x-ray photon flux at Earth's orbit, as measured by the GOES satellite, rapidly increases. It quickly reaches a peak and slowly decays. A plot of this flux exhibits an approximate lognormal shape. A lognormal function becomes a normal, symmetric, function when...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1249599733
• ISBN13: 9781249599739
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Biblioscholar
• Length: 86 Pages
• Weight: 0.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 7.4" x 9.7"