Visualizing Thousands of Solar Active Regions
Abstract
The Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager aboard the Solar Dynamics Observatory has observed 3500 solar active regions over the last six years. Each active region is observed from when it emerges to when it decays. These observations constitute the largest database of vector magnetic field images of solar active regions ever assembled (and it is publicly available at http://jsoc.stanford.edu). We have developed an interactive data visualization of various characteristics of solar active regions to better understand and explore this data set. This tool is publicly available at http://jsoc.stanford.edu/data/hmi/sharp/active_region_statistics.
- Publication:
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AGU Fall Meeting Abstracts
- Pub Date:
- December 2016
- Bibcode:
- 2016AGUFMSH11A2213B
- Keywords:
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- 1916 Data and information discovery;
- INFORMATICSDE: 1999 General or miscellaneous;
- INFORMATICSDE: 7594 Instruments and techniques;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMYDE: 7599 General or miscellaneous;
- SOLAR PHYSICS;
- ASTROPHYSICS;
- AND ASTRONOMY