
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wheatland, M. S. 
T1  - A Test to Confirm the Source of Energy for Solar Flares
JF  - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JO  - Publ. Astron. Soc.  Aust.
Y1  - 2002
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SP  - 351
EP  - 354
KW  - Sun: flares
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AS01052 
N2  - A test of the hypothesis that flares derive their energy from large scale current systems inferred from active region vector magnetograms is proposed. The test involves a statistical comparison of the flarerelated change in coronal magnetic energy (based on the magnetohydrodynamic virial theorem) and an independent measure of the energy of the flare. A simulation suggests that &#8212; assuming the hypothesis is correct&#8212;the test requires around 50 flares with energy greater than 51023 J to return a significant result. Existing archives of vector magnetograms should provide sufficient data for such a study. 
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