Limits of eruptive flare activity on the Sun
Abstract
Eruptive flares pose a threat to technology-based society, primarily via CME-driven disruption of the power grid and secondarily through solar proton bombardment of satellite infrastructure. What is the worst case scenario? Here we consider observed, inferred, and theoretical limits of the strength of solar flares, solar energetic proton events, and coronal mass ejections. The current standard for each of these types of solar emission (electromagnetic, particle, plasma) is set by the eruptive event in 774 AD that was discovered via cosmogenic nuclide enhancements in tree rings and ice cores.
- Publication:
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44th COSPAR Scientific Assembly. Held 16-24 July
- Pub Date:
- July 2022
- Bibcode:
- 2022cosp...44.1390C