Comment on ``The solar flare myth'' by J. T. Gosling
Abstract
In a recent paper Gosling (1993) claims that solar flares are relatively unimportant for understanding the terrestrial consequences of solar activity, and argues that coronal mass ejections (CMEs) produce the most powerful terrestrial disturbances. This opinion conflicts with observation, as it is well known that CMEs and flares are closely associated, and we disagree with Gosling's insistence on a simplistic cause-and-effect description of the interrelated phenomena of a solar flare. In this brief response we present new Yohkoh data and review older results that demonstrate the close relationships among CMEs, flares, filament eruptions, and other forms of energy release such as particle acceleration.
- Publication:
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Journal of Geophysical Research
- Pub Date:
- March 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1029/94JA02710
- Bibcode:
- 1995JGR...100.3473H
- Keywords:
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- Coronal Loops;
- Solar Flares;
- Solar Radiation;
- Stellar Mass Ejection;
- Data Reduction;
- Japanese Spacecraft;
- Interplanetary Physics: Interplanetary shocks;
- Magnetospheric Physics: Storms and substorms;
- Solar Physics;
- Astrophysics;
- and Astronomy: Flares