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Solar filaments are one of the most prominent features observed on the Sun, and their evolutions are closely related to various solar activities, such as flares and coronal mass ejections. Real-time automated identification of solar…

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To understand its evolution and the effects of its eruptive events, the Sun is permanently monitored by multiple satellite missions. The optically-thin emission of the solar plasma and the limited number of viewpoints make it challenging to…

The study concerns the streamer belt observed at high spectral resolution during the minimum of solar cycle 22 with the Ultraviolet Coronagraph Spectrometer (UVCS) onboard SOHO. On the basis of a spectroscopic analysis of the O VI doublet,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-09 Lucia Abbo , Ester Antonucci , Zoran Mikić , Jon A. Linker , Pete Riley , Roberto Lionello

Deep learning has not been routinely employed for semantic segmentation of seabed environment for synthetic aperture sonar (SAS) imagery due to the implicit need of abundant training data such methods necessitate. Abundant training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Yung-Chen Sun , Isaac D. Gerg , Vishal Monga

Coronal holes (CHs) are low-activity, low-density solar coronal regions with open magnetic field lines (Cranmer 2009). In the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrum, CHs appear as dark patches. Using daily hand-drawn maps from the Space Weather…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-19 Cutter Beck , Evan Smith , Khagendra Katuwal , Rudra Kafle , Jacob Whitehill

Solar photovoltaic (PV) modules are prone to damage during manufacturing, installation and operation which reduces their power conversion efficiency. This diminishes their positive environmental impact over the lifecycle. Continuous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Swayam Rajat Mohanty , Moin Uddin Maruf , Vaibhav Singh , Zeeshan Ahmad

Using joint observations from Hinode/EIS and the Atmospheric Imaging Array (AIA) on the Solar Dynamics Observatory we explore the asymmetry of coronal EUV line profiles. We find that asymmetries exist in all of the spectral lines studied,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-01-26 Marybeth Sechler , Scott W. McIntosh , Hui Tian , Bart De Pontieu

Studying the solar system and especially the Sun relies on the data gathered daily from space missions. These missions are data-intensive and compressing this data to make them efficiently transferable to the ground station is a twofold…

We present a new method for determining the column density of erupting filament material using state-of-the-art multi-wavelength imaging data. Much of the prior work on filament/prominence structure can be divided between studies that use a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-02-12 David R Williams , Deborah Baker , Lidia van Driel-Gesztelyi

We review solar studies using AIA, HMI, and EVE data from the SDO spacecraft that revolutionized our physical understanding of the Sun. The relevant SDO studies cover the entire 15-year lifetime of SDO, from 2010 May 1 to 2025 May 1. The…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-07-04 Markus J. Aschwanden

Photometric classification of Type Ia supernovae is essential for modern time-domain surveys, where spectroscopic confirmation is not always feasible for the full transient sample. In this work, we investigate a compact and physically…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-03-17 Anurag Garg

Measurements of the temperature and density structure of the solar corona provide critical constraints on theories of coronal heating. Unfortunately, the complexity of the solar atmosphere, observational uncertainties, and the limitations…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-22 Harry P. Warren , David H. Brooks

Coronal holes are large-scale structures in the solar atmosphere that feature a reduced temperature and density in comparison to the surrounding quiet Sun and are usually associated with open magnetic fields. We perform a differential…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-03-01 Stephan G. Heinemann , Jonas Saqri , Astrid M. Veronig , Stefan J. Hofmeister , Manuela Temmer

We use a well-known deep neural network framework, called Mask R-CNN, for identification of solar filaments in full-disk H-alpha images from Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO). The image data, collected from BBSO's archive, are integrated…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-06 Azim Ahmadzadeh , Sushant S. Mahajan , Dustin J. Kempton , Rafal A. Angryk , Shihao Ji

The present work illustrates the potential of a new diagnostic technique that allows the measurement of the coronal magnetic field strength in solar active regions utilizing a handful of bright \ion[Fe x] and \ion[Fe xi] lines commonly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-12-02 E. Landi , R. Hutton , T. Brage , W. Li

Difference image analysis (DIA) is a powerful tool for studying time-variable phenomena, and has been used by many time-domain surveys. Most DIA algorithms involve matching the spatially-varying PSF shape between science and template…

A comparison between a Coronal Hole (CH) and the adjacent Quiet-Sun (QS) has been performed using spectroscopic diagnostics of Hinode/ the EUV Imaging Spectrometer (EIS). Coronal funnels play an important role in the formation and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 P. Kayshap , D. Banerjee , A. K. Srivastava

A solar active region can significantly disrupt the Sun Earth space environment, often leading to severe space weather events such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. As a consequence, the automatic classification of active region…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-10-24 Edoardo Legnaro , Sabrina Guastavino , Michele Piana , Anna Maria Massone

We attempt to forecast M-and X-class solar flares using a machine-learning algorithm, called Support Vector Machine (SVM), and four years of data from the Solar Dynamics Observatory's Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager, the first instrument…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-01-09 Monica G. Bobra , Sebastien Couvidat

We review methods to measure magnetic fields within the corona using the polarized light in magnetic-dipole (M1) lines. We are particularly interested in both the global magnetic-field evolution over a solar cycle, and the local storage of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Philip G. Judge , Shadia Habbal , Enrico Landi