Generating Photospheric Vector Magnetograms of Solar Active Regions for SOHO/MDI Using SDO/HMI and BBSO Data with Deep Learning
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
7-1-2023
Abstract
Solar activity is often caused by the evolution of solar magnetic fields. Magnetic field parameters derived from photospheric vector magnetograms of solar active regions (ARs) have been used to analyze and forecast eruptive events, such as solar flares and coronal mass ejections. Unfortunately, the most recent Solar Cycle 24 was relatively weak with few large flares, though it is the only solar cycle in which consistent time-sequence vector magnetograms have been available through the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) since its launch in 2010. In this work, we look into another major instrument, namely the Michelson Doppler Imager (MDI) on board the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) from 1996 to 2010. The data archive of SOHO/MDI covers a more active Solar Cycle 23 with many large flares. However, SOHO/MDI only has line-of-sight (LOS) magnetograms. We propose a new deep learning method, named MagNet, to learn from combined LOS magnetograms, Bx and By , taken by SDO/HMI, along with H α observations collected by the Big Bear Solar Observatory (BBSO), and to generate synthetic vector components Bx′ and By′ of ARs. These generated vector components, together with observational LOS data, would form vector magnetograms for SOHO/MDI. In this way, we can expand the availability of vector magnetograms to the period from 1996 to present. Experimental results demonstrate the good performance of the MagNet method. To our knowledge, this is the first time that deep learning has been used to generate photospheric vector magnetograms of ARs for SOHO/MDI using SDO/HMI and H α data.
Identifier
85165287614 (Scopus)
Publication Title
Solar Physics
External Full Text Location
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11207-023-02180-z
e-ISSN
1573093X
ISSN
00380938
Issue
7
Volume
298
Grant
1954737
Fund Ref
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Recommended Citation
Jiang, Haodi; Li, Qin; Liu, Nian; Hu, Zhihang; Abduallah, Yasser; Jing, Ju; Xu, Yan; Wang, Jason T.L.; and Wang, Haimin, "Generating Photospheric Vector Magnetograms of Solar Active Regions for SOHO/MDI Using SDO/HMI and BBSO Data with Deep Learning" (2023). Faculty Publications. 1608.
https://digitalcommons.njit.edu/fac_pubs/1608
