SIDC Weekly Bulletin

:Issued: 2012 Jan 30 1536 UTC
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WEEK 578 from 2012 Jan 23  

SOLAR ACTIVITY
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Solar activity was dominated by the flaring activity of NOAA AR 1402,
which produced a M8.7 flare on Jan. 23 (0359 UT peak time) accompanied
 by a fast halo CME (1400 km/s as measured using COR2 A coronagraph) 
and a proton event (10 and 50 MeV protons), which ended on Jan. 27. 
The >10 MeV proton flux reached quite a high value of 6300 pfu 
on Jan. 24 at about 1530 UT,  shortly after the arrival of the shock linked 
to the halo CME at Earth.
While close to the west limb, AR 1402 produced an X1.7 class flare on Jan. 27,
peaking at 1837 UT. It was linked again to a fast halo CME 
(1900 km/s on COR2 A) and a new proton event from 10 to 100 MeV, 
although the maximum of the 10 MeV flux was below 1000 pfu. 

GEOMAGNETIC ACTIVITY
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Geomagnetic activity reached minor storm levels at planetary level on Jan. 24
due to the arrival of the shock, linked to the halo CME of Jan. 23 around 14:30 UT.
 Unsettled to active periods were observed for nearly 24 hours. Apart from a brief
period of active conditions on Jan. 23, which was the tail of a previous minor storm, 
the rest of the week was rather quiet.
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DAILY INDICES
DATE           RC   EISN  10CM   Ak   BKG    M   X
2012 Jan 23   149    073   144   008   B6.0   1   0
2012 Jan 24   128    051   136   022   B5.8   0   0
2012 Jan 25   ///    054   126   013   B4.9   0   0
2012 Jan 26   027    031   128   008   B7.3   0   0
2012 Jan 27   095    042   142   006   B5.2   0   1
2012 Jan 28   ///    029   115   008   B5.9   0   0
2012 Jan 29   ///    032   110   008   B2.7   0   0
# RC   : Sunspot index (Wolf Number) from Catania Observatory (Italy)
# EISN : Estimated International Sunspot Number
# 10cm : 10.7 cm  radioflux (DRAO, Canada)
# Ak   : Ak Index Wingst (Germany)
# BKG  : Background GOES X-ray level (NOAA, USA)
# M,X  : Number of X-ray flares in M and X class, see below (NOAA, USA)
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NOTICEABLE EVENTS
DAY BEGIN MAX  END  LOC    XRAY OP TENCM TYPE                       Cat NOAA NOTE 
23  0338  0359 0434 N28W21 M8.7 2B 5100  VII/2,IV/2                 21  1402 
27  1737  1837 1856 N27W71 X1.7 1F 810   II/3,IV/2                  21  1402 

 
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