Issue |
J. Space Weather Space Clim.
Volume 5, 2015
Statistical Challenges in Solar Information Processing
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Article Number | A39 | |
Number of page(s) | 7 | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/swsc/2015042 | |
Published online | 23 December 2015 |
Technical Article
Automated detection of solar eruptions
Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory, Lockheed Martin Advanced Technology Center, 3251 Hanover Street, Palo Alto, CA, USA
* Corresponding author: hurlburt@lmsal.com
Received:
21
November
2015
Accepted:
1
December
2015
Observation of the solar atmosphere reveals a wide range of motions, from small scale jets and spicules to global-scale coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Identifying and characterizing these motions are essential to advancing our understanding of the drivers of space weather. Both automated and visual identifications are currently used in identifying Coronal Mass Ejections. To date, eruptions near the solar surface, which may be precursors to CMEs, have been identified primarily by visual inspection. Here we report on Eruption Patrol (EP): a software module that is designed to automatically identify eruptions from data collected by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly on the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO/AIA). We describe the method underlying the module and compare its results to previous identifications found in the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase. EP identifies eruptions events that are consistent with those found by human annotations, but in a significantly more consistent and quantitative manner. Eruptions are found to be distributed within 15 Mm of the solar surface. They possess peak speeds ranging from 4 to 100 km/s and display a power-law probability distribution over that range. These characteristics are consistent with previous observations of prominences.
Key words: Sun / Eruptions / Solar image processing / Data mining
© N. Hurlburt, Published by EDP Sciences 2015
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