BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//CERN//INDICO//EN BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:The magnetic complexity of solar active regions: insight on the CM E-flare relationship in Solar Cycle 24 DTSTART;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230510T075500Z DTEND;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20230510T081000Z DTSTAMP;VALUE=DATE-TIME:20240704T115654Z UID:indico-contribution-326@meetings.aip.de DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Luca Giovannelli (University of Rome Tor Vergata)\nS olar flares originate from active regions (ARs) hosting complex and strong bipolar magnetic fluxes. Forecasting the probability of an AR to flare an d defining reliable precursors of intense flares\, i.e.\, X- or M-class fl ares\, are extremely challenging tasks in the space weather field.\n\nIn t his work\, we focus on two metrics as flare precursors\, the unsigned flux R* and the novel topological parameter D\, representing the complexity of a solar active region. Both metrics are based on the automatic recognitio n of magnetic polarity inversion lines (PILs) in identified SDO/HMI ARs. W e use both a heuristic approach and a supervised machine-learning method t o validate the effectiveness of these metrics to predict the occurrence of X- or M-class flares in a given solar AR during the following 24 hr perio d. Moreover\, we revise the statistics of CME-flare relationship on Solar Cycle 24 using the GOES database and a CME database recently released\, de veloped using the Drag-Based Model (DBM) to assess the quality of such a d atabase. In particular\, we exploit the R* and D parameters to classify fl aring regions in different classes\, studying the CME-flare relationship f or those classes over Solar Cycle 24.\n\nhttps://meetings.aip.de/event/24/ contributions/326/ LOCATION:Haus H\, Telegrafenberg URL:https://meetings.aip.de/event/24/contributions/326/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR