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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

Since the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) began recording ~ 1 TB of data per day, there has been an increased need to automatically extract features and events for further analysis. Here we compare the overall detection performance,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-05 Cis Verbeeck , Paul A. Higgins , Tufan Colak , Fraser T. Watson , Veronique Delouille , Benjamin Mampaey , Rami Qahwaji

Solar active regions (ARs) are the primary source of solar eruptions and space weather. Accurate detection and tracking of ARs is crucial for understanding their evolution and predicting solar activities. In the previous work, based on the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-25 C. X. Shi , Q. Hao , P. F. Chen , Y. Guo

The development of accurate forecasts of solar eruptive activity has become increasingly important for preventing potential impacts on space technologies and exploration. Therefore, it is crucial to detect Active Regions (ARs) before they…

Recent studies indicate that a small number of rogue solar active regions (ARs) may have a significant impact on the end-of-cycle polar field and the long-term behavior of solar activity. The impact of individual ARs can be qualified based…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Ruihui Wang , Jie Jiang , Yukun Luo

In this dataset we provide a comprehensive collection of magnetograms (images quantifying the strength of the magnetic field) from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). The dataset…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-13 Laura E. Boucheron , Ty Vincent , Jeremy A. Grajeda , Ellery Wuest

We present an automated system for detecting, tracking, and cataloging emerging active regions throughout their evolution and decay using SOHO Michelson Doppler Interferometer (MDI) magnetograms. The SolarMonitor Active Region Tracking…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2010-07-01 Paul A. Higgins , Peter T. Gallagher , R. T. James McAteer , D. Shaun Bloomfield

The vector magnetic field characteristics of superactive regions (SARs) hold the key for understanding why SARs are extremely active and provide the guidance in space weather prediction. We aim to quantify the characteristics of SARs using…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 A. Q. Chen , J. X. Wang

The Vector Spectromagnetograph (VSM) of the NSO's Synoptic Optical Long-Term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) facility is now operational and obtains the first-ever vector magnetic field measurements of the entire visible solar hemisphere.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-02 M. K. Georgoulis , N. -E. Raouafi , C. J Henney

This study proposes an enhancement to the existing method for detecting Solar Active Regions (ARs). Our technique tracks ARs using images from the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA) of NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). It involves a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-27 Irewola Aaron Oludehinwa , Andrei Velichko , Maksim Belyaev , Olasunkanmi I. Olusola

A solar active region (AR) is a three-dimensional magnetic structure formed in the convection zone, whose property is fundamentally important for determining the coronal structure and solar activity when emerged. However, our knowledge on…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-22 Georgios Chintzoglou , Jie Zhang

The analysis of waves in the visible side of the Sun allows the detection of active regions in the farside through local helioseismology techniques. The knowledge of the magnetism in the whole Sun, including the non-visible hemisphere, is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-12-04 T. Felipe , A. Asensio Ramos

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

Identifying solar active regions (ARs), which consist of one or more pairs of magnetic patches with opposite polarities, is essential due to their significant role in dynamic solar atmospheric phenomena. In this study, we analyze ARs during…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-16 Zahra Tajik , Hasan Rezaei , Mehdi Simiari , Hossien Safari

Solar flares originate from magnetically active regions but not all solar active regions give rise to a flare. Therefore, the challenge of solar flare prediction benefits by an intelligent computational analysis of physics-based properties…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2019-10-09 Cristina Campi , Federico Benvenuto , Anna Maria Massone , D Shaun Bloomfield , Manolis K Georgoulis , Michele Piana

Observations from the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) have the potential for allowing the helioseismic study of the formation of hundreds of active regions, which would enable us to perform statistical analyses. Our goal is to collate a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-08 H. Schunker , D. C. Braun , A. C. Birch , R. B. Burston , L. Gizon

Solar active regions (ARs) are areas on the Sun with very strong magnetic fields where various activities take place. Prominences are one of the typical solar features in the solar atmosphere, whose eruptions often lead to solar flares and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-22 T. Zhang , Q. Hao , P. F. Chen

The variation of solar irradiance is one of the natural forcing mechanisms of the terrestrial climate. Hence, the time-dependent solar irradiance is an important input parameter for climate modelling. The solar surface magnetic field is a…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-11 Omar Ashamari , Rami Qahwaji , Stan Ipson , Micha Scholl , Omar Nibouche , Margit Haberreiter

In this study we present the study of solar active regions based on BOAO vector magnetograms and $H\alpha$ filtergrams. With the new calibration method we analyzed BOAO vector magnetograms taken from the SOFT observational system to compare…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Y. -J. Moon , Y. D. Park , H. S. Yun , E. -A. Cho

Seismic maps of the Sun's far hemisphere, computed from Doppler data from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) are now being used routinely to detect strong magnetic regions on the far…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-10-11 P. C. Liewer , J. Qiu , C. Lindsey
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