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Title: Validation of solar flare forecasting & evolution of magnetic helicity of two active regions
Author: Li, Qin
View Online: njit-etd2013-050
(vii, 24 pages ~ 1.1 MB pdf)
Department: Department of Physics
Degree: Master of Science
Program: Applied Physics
Document Type: Thesis
Advisory Committee: Jing, Ju (Committee co-chair)
Wang, Haimin (Committee co-chair)
Su, Jiang Tao (Committee member)
Date: 2013-05
Keywords: Flare-forecasting model
Relative magnetic helicity
Availability: Unrestricted
Abstract:

This thesis includes two components: (1) Validation of the NJIT flare-forecasting model that was established in recent years is carried out based on the statistical correlation between solar magnetic parameters and flare productivity of active regions (ARs). 378 ARs are examined, comparing observation with prediction. It is found that the accuracy rate to some extent decreases with the level of flares. (2) The temporal evolution of the relative magnetic helicity of two ARs, AR 11072 and 11158 is investigated. The former is flare-quiet while the latter is flare-productive over the 5-day observation period. It is found that for both regions, the shear-term is a predominant factor of magnetic helicity flux. The shear-term has the same sign as the emergence-term in both ARs. AR 11158 follows the "helicity hemispheric rule" (i.e., negative in the North hemisphere and positive in the South hemisphere), whereas AR 11072 does not.


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