GOES Flux vs STIX counts

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Fig. 1: Scatter plot of STIX counts versus GOES flux in log-log scale. STIX counts are divided by the squared distances between Solar Orbiter and the Sun. 1045 flares with look-angles from the Earth smaller than 90 degrees are selected.
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Fig. 2 A profile of the histogram and its fit of the quadratic function.


The GOES flux of a flare is estimated using flux=10^(p0+p1*x+p2**x^2+p3*x^3), with x=log10(stix_peak_counts)/r^2 where p0, p1, p2 are the parameters from the polynomial curve fit, peak_counts is the STIX QL LC peak counts and r is the distance between the Sun and solar orbiter in units of au.