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Sequences of Solar Events with Identical Decays as a Tool for Isolating Quasistationary States in the Interplanetary Space

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Time profile of the fluxes of energetic solar particles generated by solar flares (including their phase of decline) is formed to a large extent by the structure of the interplanetary magnetic field and its irregularities that move away from the Sun with the solar wind velocity. When propagation is a pure diffusion, the solar particle fluxes decay after the maximum in a power-law manner. At the same time in many cases this decay is exponential, which is indicative of a considerable role played by the convective sweep of particles and their adiabatic deceleration in the expanding solar wind. In this paper we consider the events with long exponential decays and newly discovered series of successive events with identical exponential decays lasting for one to two weeks or more. They allow us to assume that the interplanetary space is stable and homogeneous during this period.

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Daibog, E.I., Logachev, Y.I., Kahler, S.W. et al. Sequences of Solar Events with Identical Decays as a Tool for Isolating Quasistationary States in the Interplanetary Space. Cosmic Research 42, 362–369 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:COSM.0000039735.35134.70

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