Bastille Day event

The Bastille Day Flare or Bastille Day Event was a powerful solar flare on July 14, 2000, occurring near the peak of the solar maximum in solar cycle 23.[1][2] Active region 9077 produced an X5-class flare, which caused an S3 radiation storm on Earth fifteen minutes later as energetic protons bombarded the ionosphere.[1][3] It was the biggest solar radiation event since 1989.[3] The proton event was four times more intense than any previously recorded since the launches of SOHO in 1995 and ACE in 1997.[1] The flare was followed by a full-halo coronal mass ejection[1] and a geomagnetic super storm on July 15-17.

The Bastille Day event was observed by Voyager I and Voyager II,[4] thus it is the farthest out observed solar storm.

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Space Radiation Storm". NASA. 2004-07-14. http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2000/ast14jul_2m.htm. Retrieved 2007-03-09. 
  2. ^ Associated Press (2000-07-14). "NASA Says Solar Flare Caused Radio Blackouts". The New York Times. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:NYTB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=10192EC724742FDF&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815. Retrieved 2007-03-09. 
  3. ^ a b Roylance, Frank D. (2000-07-15). "Solar flare biggest since '89". Contra Costa Times. http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:AWNB:CCYB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1064A3E55B815DA8&svc_dat=InfoWeb:aggregated4&req_dat=0D0CB57AB53DF815. Retrieved 2007-03-09. 
  4. ^ [1] Webber, W. R., F. B. McDonald, J. A. Lockwood, and B. Heikkila (2002), The effect of the July 14, 2000 “Bastille Day” solar flare event on >70 MeV galactic cosmic rays observed at V1 and V2 in the distant heliosphere, Geophys. Res. Lett., 29, 10, 1377-1380, doi:10.1029/2002GL014729.

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