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http://dx.doi.org/10.5303/JKAS.2007.40.4.099

PREDICTION OF DAILY MAXIMUM X-RAY FLUX USING MULTILINEAR REGRESSION AND AUTOREGRESSIVE TIME-SERIES METHODS  

Lee, J.Y. (Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University)
Moon, Y.J. (Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University)
Kim, K.S. (Department of Astronomy and Space Science, Kyung Hee University)
Park, Y.D. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
Fletcher, A.B. (Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute)
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Journal of The Korean Astronomical Society / v.40, no.4, 2007 , pp. 99-106 More about this Journal
Abstract
Statistical analyses were performed to investigate the relative success and accuracy of daily maximum X-ray flux (MXF) predictions, using both multilinear regression and autoregressive time-series prediction methods. As input data for this work, we used 14 solar activity parameters recorded over the prior 2 year period (1989-1990) during the solar maximum of cycle 22. We applied the multilinear regression method to the following three groups: all 14 variables (G1), the 2 so-called 'cause' variables (sunspot complexity and sunspot group area) showing the highest correlations with MXF (G2), and the 2 'effect' variables (previous day MXF and the number of flares stronger than C4 class) showing the highest correlations with MXF (G3). For the advanced three days forecast, we applied the autoregressive timeseries method to the MXF data (GT). We compared the statistical results of these groups for 1991 data, using several statistical measures obtained from a $2{\times}2$ contingency table for forecasted versus observed events. As a result, we found that the statistical results of G1 and G3 are nearly the same each other and the 'effect' variables (G3) are more reliable predictors than the 'cause' variables. It is also found that while the statistical results of GT are a little worse than those of G1 for relatively weak flares, they are comparable to each other for strong flares. In general, all statistical measures show good predictions from all groups, provided that the flares are weaker than about M5 class; stronger flares rapidly become difficult to predict well, which is probably due to statistical inaccuracies arising from their rarity. Our statistical results of all flares except for the X-class flares were confirmed by Yates' $X^2$ statistical significance tests, at the 99% confidence level. Based on our model testing, we recommend a practical strategy for solar X-ray flare predictions.
Keywords
Sun: solar activity; Sun: X-ray flares; Sun: flare prediction; Sun: statistical method;
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