The Role of a Tiny Brightening in a Huge Geoeffective Solar Eruption Leading to the St. Patrick’s Day Storm
Yumi Bamba et al 2019 ApJ 874 73
The largest magnetic storm in solar cycle 24 was caused by a fast coronal mass ejection thatmay have been triggered by a small magnetic disturbance generating a tiny precursor brightening at the time of a C2.4 flare.