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标题：Analysis of full disc Ca II K spectroheliograms
其他标题：I. Photometric calibration and centre-to-limb variation compensation
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作者：Theodosios Chatzistergos ; Ilaria Ermolli ; Sami K. Solanki 等
期刊名称：Astronomy & Astrophysics
印刷版ISSN：0004-6361
电子版ISSN：1432-0746
出版年度：2018
卷号：609
DOI：10.1051/0004-6361/201731511
语种：English
出版社：EDP Sciences
摘要：Context.Historical Ca II K spectroheliograms (SHG) are unique in representing long-term variations of the solar chromospheric magnetic field. They usually suffer from numerous problems and lack photometric calibration. Thus accurate processing of these data is required to get meaningful results from their analysis.Aims.In this paper we aim at developing an automatic processing and photometric calibration method that provides precise and consistent results when applied to historical SHG.Methods.The proposed method is based on the assumption that the centre-to-limb variation of the intensity in quiet Sun regions does not vary with time. We tested the accuracy of the proposed method on various sets of synthetic images that mimic problems encountered in historical observations. We also tested our approach on a large sample of images randomly extracted from seven different SHG archives.Results.The tests carried out on the synthetic data show that the maximum relative errors of the method are generally<6.5%, while the average error is<1%, even if rather poor quality observations are considered. In the absence of strong artefacts the method returns images that differ from the ideal ones by<2% in any pixel. The method gives consistent values for both plage and network areas. We also show that our method returns consistent results for images from different SHG archives.Conclusions.Our tests show that the proposed method is more accurate than other methods presented in the literature. Our method can also be applied to process images from photographic archives of solar observations at other wavelengths than Ca II K.
关键词：enSun: activitySun: chromosphereSun: faculae, plagestechniques: image processing