The Solar Flare Myth in solar-terrestrial physics [electronic resource].
- Published
- Washington, D.C. : United States. Dept. of Energy, 1993.
Oak Ridge, Tenn. : Distributed by the Office of Scientific and Technical Information, U.S. Dept. of Energy. - Physical Description
- 15 pages : digital, PDF file
- Additional Creators
- Los Alamos National Laboratory, United States. Department of Energy, and United States. Department of Energy. Office of Scientific and Technical Information
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- Summary
- Early observations of associations between solar flares and large non- recurrent geomagnetic storms, large {open_quote}solar{close_quote} energetic particle events, and transient shock wave disturbances in the solar wind led to a paradigm of cause and effect that gave flares a central position in the chain of events leading from solar activity to major transient disturbances in the near-earth space environment. However, research in the last two decades shows that this emphasis on flares is misplaced. In this paper the author outlines briefly the rationale for a different paradigm of cause and effect in solar- terrestrial physics that removes solar flares from their central position as the {open_quote}cause{close_quote} of major disturbances in the near-earth space environment. Instead, this central role of {open_quote}cause{close_quote} is played by events now known as coronal mass ejections, or CMEs.
- Report Numbers
- E 1.99:la-ur--93-2371
E 1.99: conf-9302115--4
conf-9302115--4
la-ur--93-2371 - Subject(s)
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- Note
- Published through SciTech Connect.
07/01/1993.
"la-ur--93-2371"
" conf-9302115--4"
"DE93016487"
AGU monograph/solar system plasma physics meeting on resolution of processes in space and time,Yosemite, CA (United States),Feb 1993.
Gosling, J.T. - Funding Information
- W-7405-ENG-36
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