Martin A. Reiss et al 2021 ApJ 913 28, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abf2c8 The observational uncertainty of coronal hole boundaries in automated detection schemes |
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Author: | Reiss, Martin A.1; Muglach, Karin2,3; Möstl, Christian1; |
Organizations: |
1Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria 2Heliophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA 3Catholic University of America, Washington, DC 20064, USA
4Conrad Observatory, Zentralanstalt für Meteorologie und Geodynamik, Vienna, Austria
5Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium 6University of Southampton, Southampton, UK 7Space Physics and Astronomy Research Unit, Space Climate Group, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland 8University of Graz, Institute of Physics, Graz, Austria 9Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA 10Moscow State University, Moscow, 119991, Russia 11Moscow Center of Fundamental and Applied Mathematics, Moscow, 119234, Russia 12ASTRA llc, Louisville, CO 80027, USA 13Center for Computational Heliophysics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA 14Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ 07102, USA 15NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA 16Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA 17National Centers for Environmental Information, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Boulder, CO 80305, USA 18Korean Space Weather Center, Jeju, Republic of Korea 19Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO, USA 20Kanzelhöhe Observatory for Solar and Environmental Research, University of Graz, Graz, Austria |
Format: | article |
Version: | published version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 6 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe2021070741228 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
IOP Publishing,
2021
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Publish Date: | 2021-07-07 |
Description: |
AbstractCoronal holes are the observational manifestation of the solar magnetic field open to the heliosphere and are of pivotal importance for our understanding of the origin and acceleration of the solar wind. Observations from space missions such as the Solar Dynamics Observatory now allow us to study coronal holes in unprecedented detail. Instrumental effects and other factors, however, pose a challenge to automatically detect coronal holes in solar imagery. The science community addresses these challenges with different detection schemes. Until now, little attention has been paid to assessing the disagreement between these schemes. In this COSPAR ISWAT initiative, we present a comparison of nine automated detection schemes widely applied in solar and space science. We study, specifically, a prevailing coronal hole observed by the Atmospheric Imaging Assembly instrument on 2018 May 30. Our results indicate that the choice of detection scheme has a significant effect on the location of the coronal hole boundary. Physical properties in coronal holes such as the area, mean intensity, and mean magnetic field strength vary by a factor of up to 4.5 between the maximum and minimum values. We conclude that our findings are relevant for coronal hole research from the past decade, and are therefore of interest to the solar and space research community. see all
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Series: |
Astrophysical journal |
ISSN: | 0004-637X |
ISSN-E: | 1538-4357 |
ISSN-L: | 0004-637X |
Volume: | 913 |
Issue: | 1 |
Article number: | 28 |
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/abf2c8 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abf2c8 |
Type of Publication: |
A1 Journal article – refereed |
Field of Science: |
115 Astronomy and space science |
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Funding: |
The authors thank Maria Kuznetsova, Mario Bisi, Hermann Opgenoorth, and the cluster moderators for their commitment to the COSPAR ISWAT initiative, which supported this research effort. M.A.R. thanks NASA's Community Coordinated Modeling Center for financial travel support. The authors acknowledge the following organizations and programs: M.A.R., C.M., and R.L.B. acknowledge the Austrian Science Fund (FWF): J4160-N27, P31659, P31521; K.M. acknowledges support by the NASA HGI program (# 80HQTR19T0028) and the NASA cooperative agreement NNG11PL10A; A.V. and R.J. acknowledge the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement No. 824135 (SOLARNET). The results of the CHRONNOS code have been achieved using the Vienna Scientific Cluster (VSC) and the Skoltech HPC cluster ARKUDA. E.I. acknowledges the RSF grant 20-72-00106. |
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