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                               January 21, 1994

  The peak rate and total counts of all flares in the BATSE solar flare
  catalog were recalculated on January 14, 1994 with a better livetime 
  estimation and a more accurate correction for transmission through the
  aluminum window on the front surface of the detectors.  The new 
  livetime calculation computes a smaller livetime, resulting in larger
  fluxes which becomes important at rates greater than 100,000/s.  The
  correction for the detector window is unchanged for fluxes incident 
  normal to the detector surface and is smaller than the previous correction
  factor as the off-axis angle increases.  Since the peak rate calculation 
  includes a weighted sum over the two most sunward detectors, the net 
  effect results in a smaller calculated photon flux.  This correction
  is taken for a characteristic solar spectrum, and is not an explicit
  deconvolution for the spectrum of any specific event.  As such it is
  meant only as a helpful estimate, and not as a final data product.
  As a rough guide to the combined effect of both changes use the table 
  below which only depends on the size of the flare:
 
         peak rate (counts/ (s 2000cm^2))           change
         --------------------------------           ------

                   < 1000                      flux is now smaller
                 > 1000, < 10000               not much change
                   > 10000                     flux is now greater
  

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