"Solar Flares Unveiled"
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper presents a magnetic-information-based framework for solar flares, modeling them as coherence collapse events governed by the Wilcox Constant (κ_sun). Solar active regions accumulate magnetic energy in flux tubes, increasing Magnetic Information Density (MID) until a critical threshold is reached. Once MID exceeds κ_sun, magnetic coherence collapses, triggering electric currents, particle acceleration, and flare emissions. By extending the concept of κ from cosmic and quantum domains to solar plasma, this approach unifies magnetic pressure, electric mediation, turbulence, and inertia into a single predictive parameter. The model provides testable predictions for satellite observations (SDO/HMI, RHESSI), laboratory plasma experiments, and stellar analogues (M-dwarfs and superflares). This framework bridges magnetic geometry, plasma physics, and space weather forecasting, offering a falsifiable and predictive metric for flare initiation and intensity, while establishing MID and κ_sun as rigorous tools for understanding solar and stellar magnetic phenomena. Keywords: Solar flares, Magnetic Information Density, MID, κ_sun, magnetic coherence collapse, flux tubes, electric mediation, plasma dynamics, space weather, stellar flares, predictive modeling, laboratory plasma ---
Author: Wilcox, Clyde Jermaine
Language: English
Subfield: Astronomy and Astrophysics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7078343609
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