SWAMIS Magnetic Feature Tracking for SDO
Abstract
Flux emergence is central to a host of problems in solar dynamics, from the birth of new active regions and the space weather effects that result, to the maintenance of quiet sun magnetism at all phases of the solar cycle. The Southwest Automatic Magnetic Identification Suite emerging magnetic flux region detection module (SWAMIS-EF) is running on near-real-time magnetograms from the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager on the Solar Dynamics Observatory. This enables near-real-time automated detection and cataloging of emerging flux regions from the active region scale down to the scale of the supergranular magnetic network. We will present an overview of the emerging flux detection algorithm, show some detailed observations of emerging flux at a variety of spatial scales, and describe some of the emerging flux region summary quantities that are output to the Heliophysics Event Knowledgebase. Finally, we will describe current progress in developing Scientific SWAMIS, an adaptation and optimization of the SWAMIS tracking algorithm to run on full disk, full resolution HMI line-of-sight magnetograms.
- Publication:
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American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #220
- Pub Date:
- May 2012
- Bibcode:
- 2012AAS...22020705D