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With the rapid development of telescopes, both temporal cadence and the spatial resolution of observations are increasing. This in turn generates vast amount of data, which can be efficiently searched only with automated detections in order…

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Solar flare prediction is a central problem in space weather forecasting and recent developments in machine learning and deep learning accelerated the adoption of complex models for data-driven solar flare forecasting. In this work, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-09-12 Chetraj Pandey , Anli Ji , Rafal A. Angryk , Berkay Aydin

A procedure is introduced to recognise sunspots automatically in solar full-disk photosphere images obtained from Huairou Solar Observing Station, National Astronomical Observatories of China. The images are first pre-processed through…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-05-23 Cui Zhao , GangHua Lin , YuanYong Deng , Xiao Yang

We present a novel approach to perform ground-based estimation and prediction of the surface solar irradiance with the view to predicting photovoltaic energy production. We propose the use of mini-batch k-means clustering to extract…

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Solar forecasting from ground-based sky images has shown great promise in reducing the uncertainty in solar power generation. With more and more sky image datasets open sourced in recent years, the development of accurate and reliable deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Yuhao Nie , Quentin Paletta , Andea Scott , Luis Martin Pomares , Guillaume Arbod , Sgouris Sgouridis , Joan Lasenby , Adam Brandt

In the preparation for ESA's Euclid mission and the large amount of data it will produce, we train deep convolutional neural networks on Euclid simulations classify solar system objects from other astronomical sources. Using transfer…

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Point source detection at low signal-to-noise is challenging for astronomical surveys, particularly in radio interferometry images where the noise is correlated. Machine learning is a promising solution, allowing the development of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-04-02 A. Vafaei Sadr , Etienne. E. Vos , Bruce A. Bassett , Zafiirah Hosenie , N. Oozeer , Michelle Lochner

Ground-based solar image restoration is a computationally expensive procedure that involves nonlinear optimization techniques. The presence of atmospheric turbulence produces perturbations in individual images that make it necessary to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2023-07-26 A. Asensio Ramos , S. Esteban Pozuelo , C. Kuckein

Photovoltaics (PV) are widely used to harvest solar energy, an important form of renewable energy. Photovoltaic arrays consist of multiple solar panels constructed from solar cells. Solar cells in the field are vulnerable to various…

Applications · Statistics 2024-08-13 Xinyi Song , Kennedy Odongo , Francis G. Pascual , Yili Hong

The quality of images of the Sun obtained from the ground are severely limited by the perturbing effect of the turbulent Earth's atmosphere. The post-facto correction of the images to compensate for the presence of the atmosphere require…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 A. Asensio Ramos , J. de la Cruz Rodriguez , A. Pastor Yabar

The morphology of circular polarisation profiles from solar spectropolarimetric observations encode information about the magnetic field strength, inclination, and line-of-sight velocity gradients. Previous studies used manual methods or…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-05-21 Ryan James Campbell , Mihalis Mathioudakis , Carlos Quintero Noda , Peter Keys , David Orozco Suárez

Supervised classification of temporal sequences of astronomical images into meaningful transient astrophysical phenomena has been considered a hard problem because it requires the intervention of human experts. The classifier uses the…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-10-07 Catalina Gómez , Mauricio Neira , Marcela Hernández Hoyos , Pablo Arbeláez , Jaime E. Forero-Romero

In order to utilize solar imagery for real-time feature identification and large-scale data science investigations of solar structures, we need maps of the Sun where phenomena, or themes, are labeled. Since solar imagers produce…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-02 J. Marcus Hughes , Vicki W. Hsu , Daniel B. Seaton , Hazel M. Bain , Jonathan M. Darnel , Larisza Krista

With the expected rise in behind-the-meter solar penetration within the distribution networks, there is a need to develop time-series forecasting methods that can reliably predict the net-load, accurately quantifying its uncertainty and…

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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…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-17 GaoFei Zhu , GangHua Lin , Xiao Yang , Cheng Zeng

Automated photometric supernova classification has become an active area of research in recent years in light of current and upcoming imaging surveys such as the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope, given that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 Michelle Lochner , Jason D. McEwen , Hiranya V. Peiris , Ofer Lahav , Max K. Winter

Solar wind classification is conducive to understand the physical processes ongoing at the Sun and solar wind evolution in the interplanetary space, and furthermore, it is helpful for early warning of space weather events. With rapid…

Space Physics · Physics 2019-08-26 Hui Li , Chi Wang , Cui Tu , Fei Xu

Inferring the three-dimensional (3D) solar atmospheric structures from observations is a critical task for advancing our understanding of the magnetic fields and electric currents that drive solar activity. In this work, we introduce a…

Image super-resolution has been an important subject in image processing and recognition. Here, we present an attention-aided convolutional neural network (CNN) for solar image super-resolution. Our method, named SolarCNN, aims to enhance…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-03-28 Chunhui Xu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang , Haodi Jiang , Qin Li , Yasser Abduallah , Yan Xu