Evidence for departure from a power-law flare size distribution for a small solar active region

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 710, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 1324-1334

  Wheatland, M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Methods: statistical; Sun: activity; Sun: corona; Sun: flares

Indexed keywords

EID: 77149144134     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/710/2/1324     Document Type: Article

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