Fabio Lepreti et al 2001 ApJ 555 L133 doi:10.1086/323178
Fabio Lepreti1, Vincenzo Carbone1 and Pierluigi Veltri1
Show affiliationsThe waiting time distribution for solar flares has been considered. Using Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite X-ray data, we show that a local Poisson hypothesis for solar flares is not consistent with observations, while the observed distribution is well reproduced by a Lévy function, which displays asymptotically a power-law tail. The origin of the observed waiting time distribution is then attributed to the fact that the physical process underlying solar flares is statistically self-similar in time and is characterized by a certain amount of "memory."
Issue 2 (2001 July 10)
Received 2000 December 4, accepted for publication 2001 June 5
Published 2001 June 27
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