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An Automated Algorithm to Distinguish and Characterize Solar Flares and Associated Sequential Chromospheric Brightenings
Authors:M S Kirk  K S Balasubramaniam  J Jackiewicz  B J McNamara  R T J McAteer
Institution:1. Department of Astronomy, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM, 88003, USA
2. Space Vehicles Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Sunspot, NM, 88349, USA
3. National Solar Observatory, Sunspot, NM, 88349, USA
Abstract:We present a new automated algorithm to identify, track, and characterize small-scale brightening associated with solar eruptive phenomena observed in Hα. The temporal, spatially localized changes in chromospheric intensities can be separated into two categories: flare ribbons and sequential chromospheric brightenings (SCBs). Within each category of brightening we determine the smallest resolvable locus of pixels, a kernel, and track the temporal evolution of the position and intensity of each kernel. This tracking is accomplished by isolating the eruptive features, identifying kernels, and linking detections between frames into trajectories of kernels. We fully characterize the evolving intensity and morphology of the flare ribbons by observing the tracked flare kernels in aggregate. With the location of SCB and flare kernels identified, they can easily be overlaid on complementary data sets to extract Doppler velocities and magnetic-field intensities underlying the kernels. This algorithm is adaptable to any dataset to identify and track solar features.
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