Solar flares and thermal wind reversals: Critical metastable states

A. Bershadskii, J. J. Niemela, K. R. Sreenivasan

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Abstract

Two data sets of metastable states duration time: one obtained in a laboratory thermal convection experiment and another in the satellite's Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscopic Imager (RHESSI: 2002-2003 yy) observations, are compared in order to extract an information about a general (common) statistical mechanism in the onset of the metastable states. Simple probability distributions for both data sets show the same distinctive power-law (with exponent -1.1±0.1) and the exponential tails. More sophisticated analysis with moving average moments reveals a specific critical-like clusterization of the data in the both data sets with remarkably close values of the exponents.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)15-19
Number of pages5
JournalPhysics Letters, Section A: General, Atomic and Solid State Physics
Volume331
Issue number1-2
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 11 2004

Keywords

  • Critical metastable states
  • Solar flares

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Physics and Astronomy

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