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Solar active regions (ARs) are the places hosting the majority of solar eruptions. Studying the evolution and morphological features of ARs is not only of great significance to the understanding of the physical mechanisms of solar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-02-26 Ruishuo Chen , Wutong Lu , Qi Hao , Yifan Meng , Pengfei Chen , Chenxi Shi

Long-lived rotational and meridional flows are important ingredients of the solar cycle. Magnetic field images have typically been used to measure these flows on the solar surface by cross-correlating thin longitudinal strips or square…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-15 Derek A. Lamb

The solar dipole moment at cycle minimum is considered to be the most successful precursor for the amplitude of the subsequent cycle. Numerical simulations of the surface flux transport (SFT) model are widely used to effectively predict the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-06-16 Zi-Fan Wang , Jie Jiang , Jing-Xiu Wang

Pulsar timing is a powerful tool that, by accounting for every rotation of a pulsar, precisely measures the spin frequency, spin frequency derivatives, astrometric position, binary parameters when applicable, properties of the ISM, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-05 Jackson Taylor , Scott Ransom , Prajwal V. Padmanabh

Coronal bright points (CBP) are ubiquitous small brightenings in the solar corona associated with small magnetic bipoles. We derive the solar differential rotation profile by tracing the motions of CBPs detected by the Atmospheric Imaging…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-02-25 Davor Sudar , Ivica Skokić , Roman Brajša , Steven H. Saar

We study the predictive capabilities of magnetic feature properties (MF) generated by Solar Monitor Active Region Tracker (SMART) for solar flare forecasting from two datasets: the full dataset of SMART detections from 1996 to 2010 that has…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-07 Katarina Domijan , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Francois Pitie

We present an automated approach for identifying magnetospheric regions using supervised machine learning techniques applied to Magnetospheric MultiScale mission data. Our method utilizes ion energy spectra, total magnetic field, total ion…

Space Physics · Physics 2025-10-02 Narges Ahmadi , Robert Ergun , Xiangning Chu , Alex Chasapis , Victoria Wilder

Maintaining the integrity of solar power plants is a vital component in dealing with the current climate crisis. This process begins with analysts creating a detailed map of a plant with the coordinates of every solar panel, making it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Conor Wallace , Isaac Corley , Jonathan Lwowski

The magnetic flux that is generated by dynamo inside the Sun emerges in the form of bipolar magnetic regions. We have analyzed the whole set of solar magnetograms obtained with the SOHO/MDI instrument in 1995-2011, and automatically…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 J. O. Stenflo , A. G. Kosovichev

Recent observations of FRB 20220529 reveal significant variation and a partial reversal in its rotation measure (RM), suggesting the presence of a dynamically evolving magnetized environment, which could be caused by the orbital motion of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-07 Ze-Xin Du , Yun-Wei Yu , Aming Chen , Chen-Hui Niu , Jia-Heng Zhang

The morphological asymmetry of leading and following sunspots is a well-known characteristic of the solar surface. In the context of large-scale evolution of the surface magnetic field, the asymmetry has been assumed to have only a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-25 H. Iijima , H. Hotta , S. Imada

Large-scale magnetic fields affect the scalar modes of the geometry whose ultimate effect is to determine the anisotropies of the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB in what follows). For the first time, a consistent numerical approach to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-29 Massimo Giovannini , Kerstin E. Kunze

The changing magnetic fields of the Sun are generated and maintained by a solar dynamo, the exact nature of which remains an unsolved fundamental problem in solar physics. Our objective in this paper is to investigate the role and impact of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-03 Kinfe Teweldebirhan , Mark Miesch , Sarah Gibson

Radio maps find numerous applications in wireless communications and mobile robotics tasks, including resource allocation, interference coordination, and mission planning. Although numerous techniques have been proposed to construct radio…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-01-14 Raju Shrestha , Daniel Romero , Sundeep Prabhakar Chepuri

Deep learning has drawn a lot of interest in recent years due to its effectiveness in processing big and complex observational data gathered from diverse instruments. Here we propose a new deep learning method, called SolarUnet, to identify…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-02 Haodi Jiang , Jiasheng Wang , Chang Liu , Ju Jing , Hao Liu , Jason T. L. Wang , Haimin Wang

Large and magnetically complex sunspot groups are known to be associated with flares. To date, the Mount Wilson scheme has been used to classify sunspot groups based on their morphological and magnetic properties. The most flare prolific…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Sreejith Padinhatteeri , Paul A. Higgins , D. Shaun Bloomfield , Peter T. Gallagher

We developed a method to automatically detect and trace solar filaments in H\alpha\ full-disk images. The program is able not only to recognize filaments and determine their properties, such as the position, the area, the spine, and other…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-15 Qi Hao , Cheng Fang , P. F. Chen

Many real-world datasets are labeled with natural orders, i.e., ordinal labels. Ordinal regression is a method to predict ordinal labels that finds a wide range of applications in data-rich domains, such as natural, health and social…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Lu Wang , Dongxiao Zhu

Context: Solar active regions (ARs) are key manifestations of the Sun's magnetic activity, displaying diverse spatial and temporal characteristics. Their formation and evolution play a crucial role in understanding the solar dynamo and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-08-06 M. Švanda , J. Jurčák , M. Schmassmann

We present a new data product, called Space-Weather MDI Active Region Patches (SMARPs), derived from maps of the solar surface magnetic field taken by the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) aboard the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SoHO).…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-21 Monica G. Bobra , Paul J. Wright , Xudong Sun , Michael J. Turmon