solar_physics.md

Solar Physics and Space Science

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Mission and Data

• Solar Dynamics Observatory

• Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS)

  • The primary goal of the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) explorer is to understand how the solar atmosphere is energized

Tools

General Data Analysis Tools

• SolarSoftWare (SSW)

  • The SolarSoft system is a set of integrated software libraries, data bases, and system utilities which provide a common programming and data analysis environment for Solar Physics. Mostly written in IDL.

• SunPy - Python for Solar Physics

  • The community-developed, free and open-source solar data analysis environment for Python. Source code on Github
  • Document is here and here is the New comers' guide to SunPy
  • SSWIDL to SunPy cheat sheet

• sunkit-image - A image processing toolbox for Solar Physics

  • sunkit-image is a a open-source toolbox for solar physics image processing. Currently it is experimental library for various solar physics specific image processing routines.

Telescope or Mission Specific Tools

• irispy - A SunPy-affiliated package which provides tools to analyze data from IRIS

  • IRISPy is a SunPy-affiliated package that provides the tools to read in and analyze data from the IRIS solar-observing satellite in Python.

• drms - Access HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python

  • The drms module provides an easy-to-use interface for accessing HMI, AIA and MDI data with Python. It uses the publicly accessible JSOC DRMS server by default

• dkist - A Python library for obtaining, processing and interacting with calibrated DKIST data

  • The Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope (DKIST, formerly the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope, ATST)

Other Useful Tools

• solarbextrapolation - Extrapolation framework for Solar Magnetic Fields

  • solarbextrapolation is a library for extrapolating 3D magnetic fields from line-of-sight magnetograms

• demreg - Calculate the Differential Emission Measure (DEM) from solar data using regularised inversion

  • Written in IDL. More on the Regularized DEM Maps

• MagneticFragmentation

  • The algorithms required to divide SDO/HMI magnetograms into individual magnetic fragments, based on a 'downhill' segmentation.

• Pysolar - a collection of Python libraries for simulating the irradiation of any point on earth by the sun

• EBTEL - Enthalpy-Based Thermal Evolution of Loops model

  • Written in IDL, for Highly Efficient Modeling of Dynamic Coronal Loops
  • ebtel++ - C++ implementation of the two-fluid EBTEL model

• IonPopSolver - Code for computing effective temperature and ion population fractions from temperature and density timeseries

  • Based on A numerical tool for the calculation of non-equilibrium ionisation states in the solar corona and other astrophysical plasma environments

• eitwave - EIT Wave Detection (AGU 2011)

Atomic Database

• CHIANTI - An Atomic Database for Spectroscopic Diagnostics of Astrophysical Plasmas
  • This is a general astrophysical database, but it is frequently used in solar physics. It is distributed within SSW.
  • fiasco - A Python interface to the CHIANTI atomic database
    • Online document is here
  • ChiantiPy - the Python interface to the CHIANTI atomic database for astrophysical spectroscopy