Iranian Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics (Apr 2020)

The Modified Form of the Gutenberg-Richter Law ‎in ‎Solar ‎Flare ‎Complex ‎Network‎ : ‎Approach of Genetic Algorithm on the Thresholded Power-Law Behavior

  • Amin Najafi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.22128/ijaa.2020.423.1087
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 47 – 56

Abstract

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The hybrid model approach is adopted to construct the solar flare complex network. The modified form of Gutenberg-Richter law is obtained as the frequency-magnitude distribution of the empirical data. The frequency-magnitude distributions of positive-definite data are sometimes observed to follow a power-law over several orders of size. There are reasons to the deviation of the frequency-magnitude distribution from an ideal power distribution. Among many alternative forms of the power-law function, we found that the threshold power-law is well fitted with solar empirical data at small values. A statistical method based on optimization of the ‎$‎‎chi‎‎^{2}‎$-test by application of the genetic algorithm have been developed.‎Here, the analytical details of a method based on genetic algorithm is presented to calculate the parameters of the frequency-Magnitud‎‏e distribution of the empirical data sets. This method estimates the best parameters of the threshold power-law function as the frequency-magnitude distribution of the empirical data, as well.

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