{"paper":{"title":"Cycle Variation in the Occurrence of Great Soft X-ray Solar Flares","arxiv_id":"2609.09435","primary_cat":"astro-ph.SR","submitted_at":"2026-09-08T20:35:46+00:00","version_compiled":"v1"},"notice":"Every quoted sentence is the authors' text from the arXiv listing abstract. Labels and probabilities are the outputs of classifier-1.13.0 on the question bank abstract-p1-20260923, exactly as returned. 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