Pixel Dynamics Analysis of Photospheric Spectral Data

Abstract

A new method has been developed to analyze high-resolution spectral data of the solar photosphere and chromosphere. The data format is a two-dimensional (2-D) time-series of images. The method uses emission or absorption lines in the intensity and polarization data (Stokes parameters). Each pixel contains quantitative information on the spectral profiles of selected lines, such as the line width, degree of asymmetry, and peakedness. The 2-D time-series is first averaged in time pixel-by-pixel. A derivative time-series is constructed such that each image in the time-series is characterized by the pixel-by-pixel deviations from the average. The pixel fluctuation distribution (PFD) function is constructed and its statistical properties are calculated. Such properties including the mean, variance, skewness, and kurtosis are computed as functions of time and are used to precisely quantify temporal variations in the observed spectral data. In this work, the method is applied to photospheric absorption lines (Fe I 6301.5 and 6302.5 ) from quiet-Sun regions and active regions on the solar photosphere, obtained by the vector spectromagnetograph (VSM) of the Synoptic Optical Long-term Investigations of the Sun (SOLIS) of the National Solar Observatory (NSO).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 13, 2014
Accession Number
ADA616557

Entities

People

  • Anthony Rasca
  • Zhijian Chen

Organizations

  • United States Naval Research Laboratory

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetry
  • Circular Polarization
  • Data Analysis
  • Dynamics
  • Flux Density
  • High Resolution
  • Magnetic Fields
  • Military Research
  • Observation
  • Observatories
  • Observers
  • Physics
  • Polarization
  • Solar Observatories
  • Spectral Lines
  • Sun
  • Two Dimensional

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Image Processing and Computer Vision.
  • Regression Analysis.
  • Solar Physics