http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.12176
With over 100 years of solar observations, the Kodaikanal Solar Observatory (KoSO) is a one-of-a-kind solar data repository in the world. Among its many data catalogues, the
suncharts' at KoSO are of particular interest. These Suncharts (1904-2020) are coloured drawings of different solar features, such as sunspots, plages, filaments, and prominences, made on papers with a Stonyhurst latitude-longitude grid etched on them. In this paper, we analyze this unique data by first digitizing each suncharts using an industry-standard scanner and saving those digital images in high-resolution.tif’ format. We then examine the Cycle~19 and Cycle~20 data (two of the strongest cycles of the last century) with the aim of detecting filaments. To this end, we employed `k-means clustering’ method and obtained different filament parameters such as position, tilt angle, length, and area. Our results show that filament length (and area) increases with latitude and the pole-ward migration is clearly dominated by a particular tilt sign. Lastly, we cross-verified our findings with results from KoSO digitized photographic plate database for the overlapping time period and obtained a good agreement between them. This work, acting as a proof-of-the-concept, will kick-start new efforts to effectively use the entire hand-drawn series of multi-feature, full-disk solar data and enable researchers to extract new sciences, such as the generation of pseudo magnetograms for the last 100 years.
A. Priyadarshi, M. Hegde, B. Jha, et. al.
Mon, 26 Dec 22
33/39
Comments: 12 pages, 7 Figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
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