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JOURNAL OF SPACE WEATHER AND SPACE CLIMATE
卷 3, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
EDP SCIENCES S A
DOI: 10.1051/swsc/2013053
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space weather; extreme events; solar activity; magnetic storms; historical records
The solar flare on 1 September 1859 and its associated geomagnetic storm remain the standard for an extreme solar-terrestrial event. The most recent estimates of the flare soft X-ray (SXR) peak intensity and Dst magnetic storm index for this event are: SXR class = X45 (+/- 5) (vs. X35 (+/- 5) for the 4 November 2003 flare) and minimum Dst = -900 (+50, -150) nT (vs. -825 to -900 nT for the great storm of May 1921). We have no direct evidence of an associated solar energetic proton (SEP) event but a correlation between >30 MeV SEP fluence (F-30) and flare size based on modern data yields a best guess F-30 value of similar to 1.1 x 10(10) pr cm(-2) (with the +/- 1 sigma uncertainty spanning a range from similar to 10(9)-10(11) pr cm(-2)) for a composite (multi-flare plus shock) 1859 event. This value is approximately twice that of estimates/measurements - ranging from similar to 5-7 x 10(9) pr cm(-2) - for the largest SEP episodes (July 1959, November 1960, August 1972) in the modern era.
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