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The Burst and Transient Source Experiment on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory is being used to measure solar flares. The Large Area Detectors are well suited for studies of small flares. We are searching the BATSE LAD data for solar flares with an automated algorithm. In this search we have detected solar flares an order of magnitude smaller than those detected by a visual search of the data. The results are consistent with the differential distribution of peak flare rates measured by other researchers. These results also show that the frequency of the smallest flares observed by BATSE can be predicted from the frequency of larger flares. We also present results on the factors limiting the sensitivity of the search.
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Biesecker, D.A., Ryan, J.M., Fishman, G.J. (1994). A search for small solar flares with BATSE. In: Belvedere, G., Rodonò, M., Simnett, G.M. (eds) Advances in Solar Physics. Lecture Notes in Physics, vol 432. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58041-7_222
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