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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

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

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

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

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

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…

Studies on the dynamics of solar filaments have significant implications for understanding their formation, evolution, and eruption, which are of great importance for space weather warning and forecasting. The H$\alpha$ Imaging Spectrograph…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-23 Z. Zheng , Q. Hao , Y. Qiu , J. Hong , C. Li , M. D. Ding

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Context. Filaments are ubiquitous in the Galaxy, and they host star formation. Detecting them in a reliable way is therefore key towards our understanding of the star formation process. Aims. We explore whether supervised machine learning…

The volume of data being collected in solar physics has exponentially increased over the past decade and with the introduction of the $\textit{Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope}$ (DKIST) we will be entering the age of petabyte solar data.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-10 John A. Armstrong , Lyndsay Fletcher

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

Polar crown filaments form above the polarity inversion line between the old magnetic flux of the previous cycle and the new magnetic flux of the current cycle. Studying their appearance and their properties can lead to a better…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-18 Andrea Diercke , Carsten Denker

Monitoring of the Sun and its activity is a task of growing importance in the frame of space weather research and awareness. Major space weather disturbances at Earth have their origin in energetic outbursts from the Sun: solar flares,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-09 Astrid M. Veronig , Werner Pötzi

Full disc observations of the Sun in the H$\alpha$ line provide information about the solar chromosphere and in particular about the filaments, which are dark and elongated features that lie along magnetic field polarity inversion lines.…

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