The Relation Between Magnetic Fields and X-ray Emission for Solar Microflares and Active Regions

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作者
Kirichenko, A. S. [1 ]
Bogachev, S. A. [1 ]
机构
[1] PN Lebedev Phys Inst, Moscow, Russia
基金
俄罗斯科学基金会;
关键词
Flares; Microflares and nanoflares; Magnetic fields; Photosphere; RECONNECTION; CORONA; FLUX;
D O I
10.1007/s11207-017-1146-8
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
We present the result of a comparison between magnetic field parameters and the intensity of X-ray emission for solar microflares with Geosynchronous Operational Environmental Satellites (GOES) classes from A0.02 to B5.1. For our study, we used the monochromatic MgXII Imaging Spectroheliometer (MISH), the Full-disk EUV Telescope (FET), and the Solar PHotometer in X-rays (SphinX) instruments onboard the Complex Orbital Observations Near-Earth of Activity of the Sun-Photon CORONAS-Photon spacecraft because of their high sensitivity in soft X-rays. The peak flare flux (PFF) for solar microflares was found to depend on the strength of the magnetic field and on the total unsigned magnetic flux as a power-law function. In the spectral range 2.8 -36.6 angstrom, which shows very little increase related to microflares, the power-law index of the relation between the X-ray flux and magnetic flux for active regions is 1.48 +/- 0.86, which is close to the value obtained previously by Pevtsov et al. (Astrophys. J. 598, 1387, 2003) for different types of solar and stellar objects. In the spectral range 1 - 8 angstrom, the power-law indices for PFF(B) and PFF(phi) for microflares are 3.87 +/- 2.16 and 3 +/- 1.6, respectively. We also make suggestions on the heating mechanisms in active regions and microflares under the assumption of loops with constant pressure and heating using the Rosner-Tucker-Vaiana scaling laws.
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