Dear coronal loop explorers,
here a 2-part paper on scaling laws and statistical size distributions, accepted for publication in ApJ.
The datasets are M and X-class flares (observed with AIA), but a similar study could be conducted with heating events in coronal loops, if we believe that loops are heated individually and the heating events are considered as avalanche events in a self-organized criticality system.
Share and enjoy, Markus
Aschwanden,M.J., Zhang,J., and Liu,K. 2013, ApJ 774 (Sept 10, 2013 issue, in press) URL1="http://www.lmsal.com/~aschwand/eprints/2013_spatio1.pdf" Multi-Wavelength Observations of the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Solar Flares with AIA/SDO: I. Universal Scaling Laws of Space and Time Parameters
Aschwanden,M.J. and Shimizu,T. 2013, ApJ (in press) URL1="http://www.lmsal.com/~aschwand/eprints/2013_spatio2.pdf" Multi-Wavelength Observations of the Spatio-Temporal Evolution of Solar Flares with AIA/SDO: II. Hydrodynamic Scaling Laws and Thermal Energies
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