SOLAR DEMON DETECTING FLARES, DIMMINGS, AND EUV WAVES IN NEAR
REAL-TIME ON SDO/AIA IMAGES Emil Kraaikamp (p), Cis Verbeeck Royal
Observatory of Belgium 12 th European Space Weather Week, Oostende,
Belgium Solar Storms: Flares, CMEs and Solar Energetic Particle
(SEP) events November 24, 2015 STCE CONTENTS Objectives Solar Demon
overview EUV wave detection Results Questions solardemon.oma.be
OBJECTIVES Dimmings, Flares and EUV waves are closely related to
CMEs Develop early warning system for earth-directed CMEs Flares
and dimmings detected typically within 20 minutes after image was
taken with SDO/AIA! Characterize flare, dimming and EUV wave events
for research purposes Use dimmings (size, location,.) to estimate
CMEs strength EUV wave speed v.s. CME speed? But beware of
projection effects... SOLAR DEMON VERSIONS VersionQLKScienceNote
Development solardemon.oma.be/dev/ YESYES, 2010 Now Not available
all the time. Contains automated EUV wave detection. Production
solardemon.oma.be YESYES, 2010 Now EUV wave detection not yet
integrated Archive solardemon.oma.be/old/ NOYES, Oct 29, 2015 no
longer updated For science catalog: semi- automatic EUV wave
detection available SOLAR DEMON FLARE DETECTION -SDO/AIA 9.4nm
-Accurate flare location information -No macro-pixels, accurate on
pixel-level -Opens door for studies on morphological
characterization of flares -Fast -Runs in near real-time, as soon
as data is available (typically just 20 minutes delay) -Big science
catalog (since May 2010-) events -Coupled to COMESEP alert system
-Provides location for SEP alerts SOLAR DEMON DIMMING DETECTION
-SDO/AIA 21.1nm -Base and running difference images -(also fast.. )
-Science and near real-time dimming detector events (since may
>) -Studies on Dimmings and CME relation EUV WAVE DETECTION
SDO/AIA 21.1nm images Uses Solar Demon flare detector as trigger
Search for EUV waves around flare eruption center Manual EUV wave
speed estimation Currently archived version of SD, and development
version Automatic EUV wave speed estimation Extract 24 sectors
around eruption center great circles Percentage running difference
images EUV WAVE DETECTION -LINE FILTERING EUV WAVE DETECTION
Currently only available for M and X class flares On development
version (science data) To do Include C-flares and below Other
source locations e.g. Search for EUV waves around all dimmings
events Quick-look data Off-limb wave detection and tracking:
RESULTS Locations of flares and dimmings (stonyhurst heliographic)
RESULTS FLARE AND DIMMING COUNTS Flares Dimming RESULTS BUTTERFLY
DIAGRAMS RESULTS LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION Flares RESULTS
LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION Flares RESULTS LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION
Flares RESULTS LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION Dimmings RESULTS
LONGITUDINAL DISTRIBUTION Histograms QUESTIONS? Demonstration at
the Fair Wednesday 16:30 18:00 (there will be coffee, and beer
afterwards!) Solar Demon an approach to detecting flares, dimmings,
and EUV waves on SDO/AIA images Kraaikamp, E., Verbeeck, C.
