Solar Feature Identification using Contrasts and Contiguity |
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Authors: | Preminger Dora G. Walton Stephen R. Chapman Gary A. |
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Affiliation: | (1) San Fernando Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, California State University, Northridge, Northridge, CA, 91330-8268, U.S.A. |
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Abstract: | We present a new technique for the rapid, automatic identification of solar features on full-disk photometric images. The technique permits the detection of features whose contrasts are only slightly above the noise level. Contrast and contiguity criteria are used to identify pixels belonging to an individual feature. The criteria used are simple and objective, and do not require one to guess at the contrast distribution of the features. Comparison of Caii K images with magnetograms shows excellent agreement between the identified features and observed magnetic features. In addition, we can now reliably identify faculae on continuum images. Since this technique can be rapidly applied to a large set of images, it allows us to compile a database of the physical and photometric properties of individual solar features. |
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