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Title: Solar flare catalog based on SDO/AIA EUV images: Composition and correlation with GOES/XRS X-ray flare magnitudes
Supervised Machine Learning (ML) models for solar flare prediction rely on accurate labels for a given input data set, commonly obtained from the GOES/XRS X-ray flare catalog. With increasing interest in utilizing ultraviolet (UV) and extreme ultraviolet (EUV) image data as input to these models, we seek to understand if flaring activity can be defined and quantified using EUV data alone. This would allow us to move away from the GOES single pixel measurement definition of flares and use the same data we use for flare prediction for label creation. In this work, we present a Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (AIA)-based flare catalog covering flare of GOES X-ray magnitudes C, M and X from 2010 to 2017. We use active region (AR) cutouts of full disk AIA images to match the corresponding SDO/Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) SHARPS (Space weather HMI Active Region Patches) that have been extensively used in ML flare prediction studies, thus allowing for labeling of AR number as well as flare magnitude and timing. Flare start, peak, and end times are defined using a peak-finding algorithm on AIA time series data obtained by summing the intensity across the AIA cutouts. An extremely randomized trees (ERT) regression model is used to map SDO/AIA flare magnitudes to GOES X-ray magnitude, achieving a low-variance regression. We find an accurate overlap on 85% of M/X flares between our resulting AIA catalog and the GOES flare catalog. However, we also discover a number of large flares unrecorded or mislabeled in the GOES catalog.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2001670
PAR ID:
10490459
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences
Volume:
9
ISSN:
2296-987X
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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