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Table 7. Solar radiation flux enhancement as function of wavelength normalized to the present solar flux value during the first 500 Myr after the young Sun arrived at the ZAMS (Ribas et al., 2005; Güdel, 2007).

From: Variability of solar/stellar activity and magnetic field and its influence on planetary atmosphere evolution

Solar age [Gyr]

t b.p. [Gyr]

X-ray [1–20 A]

SXR [20–100 A]

EUV [100–920 A]

FUV [920–1180 A]

Lyman-α [1200–1300 A]

UV [1300–1700 A]

0.7

3.9

37

11

8.6

5

3.9

—

0.65

3.95

43

12

9.4

5.3

4.1

5.8

0.6

4.0

50

13

10

5.7

4.3

—

0.55

4.05

59

15

11

6.1

4.6

—

0.5

4.1

71

17

13

6.6

4.9

—

0.45

4.15

87

19

14

7.2

5.3

—

0.4

4.2

109

22

17

8

5.8

—

0.35

4.25

141

26

19

9

6.4

—

0.3

4.3

189

32

23

10

7.1

10.6

0.25

4.35

268

40

28

12

8.1

—

0.2

4.4

412

54

37

14

9.6

—

0.15

4.45

715

77

51

18

11.8

—

0.1

4.5

1558

129

82

26

15.8

40.5