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Solar flare catalog from 3 years of Chandrayaan-2 XSM observations
Aravind Bharathi Valluvan, Ashwin Goyal, Devansh Jain, Abhinna Sundar Samantaray, Abhilash Sarwade, Kasiviswanathan Sankarasubramanian
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We present a catalog of 6266 solar flares detected by the X-Ray Solar Monitor onboard the Chandrayaan-2 lunar orbiter between 1.55 and 12.4 keV (1 and 8 \AA) from 2019 September 12 to 2022 November 4, including 1469 type A flares. The catalog represents the first large sample, including both type A, hot thermal flares, and type B, impulsive flares, with a sub-A class sensitive instrument. We also detect 213 sub-A and 1330 A class flares. Individual flares are fit with an exponentially-modified Gaussian function and multi-flare groups are decomposed into individual flares. We validate our findings with flare catalogs made using visual inspection as well as automatic pipelines on Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite and Solar Dynamics Observatory data. We find a clear bimodality in the ratio of the width to decay time between type A and B flares. We infer a power-law index of α_F = 1.92 ±0.09 for the background-subtracted peak flux distribution of XSM flares, which is consistent with the value ∼2 reported in the literature. We also infer α_F = 1.90 ±0.09 for type B, and α_F = 1.94 ±0.08 for type A flares, which has previously not been reported in the literature. These comparable values hint at a similarity in their generative processes.
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