Ionospheric Effects of Solar Flares

The effect of background conditions on the ionospheric response to solar flares

The ionospheric response to two X5 solar flares that occurred in different seasons was investigated using the global ionosphere-thermosphere model. Two questions were investigated: (a) how do different solar flares with similar X-ray peak intensities disturb the ionosphere during the same background and driving conditions? and (b) how do the geomagnetic field and season affect the ionospheric r...

Effects of solar flares on the ionosphere of Mars.

All planetary atmospheres respond to the enhanced x-rays and ultraviolet (UV) light emitted from the Sun during a flare. Yet only on Earth are observations so continuous that the consequences of these essentially unpredictable events can be measured reliably. Here, we report observations of solar flares, causing up to 200% enhancements to the ionosphere of Mars, as recorded by the Mars Global S...

Global Properties of Solar Flares

Lithium-6 from Solar Flares

By introducing a hitherto ignored Li producing process, due to accelerated He reactions with He, we show that accelerated particle interactions in solar flares produce much more Li than Li. By normalizing our calculations to gamma-ray data we demonstrate that the Li produced in solar flares, combined with photospheric Li, can account for the recently determined solar wind lithium isotopic ratio...

7Li PRODUCTION IN SOLAR FLARES

The Y ohkoh satellite has registered X-ray spectra of two solar Ñares with a linelike feature in the region 400È500 keV. Analysis shows that this feature can be interpreted as gamma-ray lines from excited 7Li and 7Be produced from a ] a reactions. The 7Li production rate in the solar atmosphere is estimated from these observations. The lower limit on the Ñare-produced 7Li abundance on the Sun i...