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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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-01-30 Q. Hao , P. F. Chen , C. Fang

Filaments are omnipresent features in the solar atmosphere. Their location, properties and time evolution can provide information about changes in solar activity and assist the operational space weather forecast. Therefore, filaments have…

The paper presents a reliable method using deep learning to recognize solar filaments in H-alpha full-disk solar images automatically. This method cannot only identify filaments accurately but also minimize the effects of noise points of…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-17 GaoFei Zhu , GangHua Lin , DongGuang Wang , Suo Liu , Xiao Yang

The H{\alpha} line is an important optical line in solar observations containing the information from the photosphere to the chromosphere. To study the mechanisms of solar eruptions and the plasma dynamics in the lower atmosphere, the…

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

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

A new algorithm is developed that automatically detects filaments on the solar disc in H-alpha images. Preprocessing of H-alpha images include corrections for limb darkening and foreshortening. Further, by applying suitable intensity and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Anand D. Joshi , Nandita Srivastava , Shibu K. Mathew

We present a new method to automatically track filaments over the solar disk. The filaments are first detected on Meudon Spectroheliograph H{\alpha} images of the Sun, applying the technique developed by Fuller, Aboudarham, and Bentley…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-03-30 Xavier Bonnin , Jean Aboudarham , Nicolas Fuller , Andre Csillaghy , Robert D. Bentley

Filaments are very common physical phenomena on the Sun and are often taken as important proxies of solar magnetic activities. The study of filaments has become a hot topic in the space weather research. For a more comprehensive…

We describe a new neural-network technique developed for an automated recognition of solar filaments visible in the hydrogen H-alpha line full disk spectroheliograms. This technique allows neural networks learn from a few image fragments…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2007-05-23 V. V. Zharkova , V. Schetinin

Solar storms can have a major impact on the infrastructure of the earth. Some of the causing events are observable from ground in the H{\alpha} spectral line. In this paper we propose a new method for the simultaneous detection of flares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2013-04-29 Gernot Riegler , Thomas Pock , Werner Pötzi , Astrid Veronig

In this study, we classify the magnetic chirality of solar filaments from H-Alpha observations using state-of-the-art image classification models. We establish the first reproducible baseline for solar filament chirality classification on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-24 Alexis Chalmers , Azim Ahmadzadeh

We improve our filament automated detection method which was proposed in our previous works. It is then applied to process the full disk H$\alpha$ data mainly obtained by Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO) from 1988 to 2013, spanning nearly…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-12-23 Q. Hao , C. Fang , W. Cao , P. F. Chen

Solar filament oscillations have been known for decades. Now thanks to the new capabilities of the new telescopes, these periodic motions are routinely observed. Oscillations in filaments show key aspects of their structure. A systematic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-10-26 Manuel Luna , Joan-René Merou Mestre , Frédéric Auchère

Determination of horizontal velocity fields on the solar surface is crucial for understanding the dynamics of structures like mesogranulation or supergranulation or simply the distribution of magnetic fields. We pursue here the development…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. Rieutord , T. Roudier , S. Roques , C. Ducottet

Filament identification became a key step to tackling fundamental problems in various fields of Astronomy. Nevertheless, existing filament identification algorithms are critically user-dependent and require individual parametrization. In…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-22 D. Alina , A. Shomanov , S. Baimukhametova

The solar surface and atmosphere are highly dynamic plasma environments, which evolve over a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. Large-scale eruptions, such as coronal mass ejections, can be accelerated to millions of kilometres per…

In this article, an active contours without edges (ACWE)-based algorithm has been proposed for the detection of solar filaments in H-alpha full-disk solar images. The overall algorithm consists of three main steps of image processing. These…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Sanmoy Bandyopadhyay , Vaibhav Pant

The automated detection of solar features is a technique which is relatively underused but if we are to keep up with the flow of data from spacecraft such as the recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, then such techniques will be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Fraser Watson , Lyndsay Fletcher

We attempt to propose a method for automatically detecting the solar filament chirality and barb bearing. We first introduce the unweighted undirected graph concept and adopt the Dijkstra shortest-path algorithm to recognize the filament…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-20 Q. Hao , Y. Guo , C. Fang , P. F. Chen , W. Cao
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