Automatic Detection of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in Solar Wind In Situ Data

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Autori principali: Rüdisser, Hannah T., Windisch, Andreas, Amerstorfer, Ute V., Möstl, Christian, Amerstorfer, Tanja, Bailey, Rachel L., Reiss, Martin A.
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author Rüdisser, Hannah T.
Windisch, Andreas
Amerstorfer, Ute V.
Möstl, Christian
Amerstorfer, Tanja
Bailey, Rachel L.
Reiss, Martin A.
author_facet Rüdisser, Hannah T.
Windisch, Andreas
Amerstorfer, Ute V.
Möstl, Christian
Amerstorfer, Tanja
Bailey, Rachel L.
Reiss, Martin A.
contents Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are one of the main drivers for space weather disturbances. In the past, different approaches have been used to automatically detect events in existing time series resulting from solar wind in situ observations. However, accurate and fast detection still remains a challenge when facing the large amount of data from different instruments. For the automatic detection of ICMEs we propose a pipeline using a method that has recently proven successful in medical image segmentation. Comparing it to an existing method, we find that while achieving similar results, our model outperforms the baseline regarding training time by a factor of approximately 20, thus making it more applicable for other datasets. The method has been tested on in situ data from the Wind spacecraft between 1997 and 2015 with a True Skill Statistic (TSS) of 0.64. Out of the 640 ICMEs, 466 were detected correctly by our algorithm, producing a total of 254 False Positives. Additionally, it produced reasonable results on datasets with fewer features and smaller training sets from Wind, STEREO-A and STEREO-B with True Skill Statistics of 0.56, 0.57 and 0.53, respectively. Our pipeline manages to find the start of an ICME with a mean absolute error (MAE) of around 2 hours and 56 minutes, and the end time with a MAE of 3 hours and 20 minutes. The relatively fast training allows straightforward tuning of hyperparameters and could therefore easily be used to detect other structures and phenomena in solar wind data, such as corotating interaction regions.
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spellingShingle Automatic Detection of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in Solar Wind In Situ Data
Rüdisser, Hannah T.
Windisch, Andreas
Amerstorfer, Ute V.
Möstl, Christian
Amerstorfer, Tanja
Bailey, Rachel L.
Reiss, Martin A.
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
Space Physics
Interplanetary coronal mass ejections (ICMEs) are one of the main drivers for space weather disturbances. In the past, different approaches have been used to automatically detect events in existing time series resulting from solar wind in situ observations. However, accurate and fast detection still remains a challenge when facing the large amount of data from different instruments. For the automatic detection of ICMEs we propose a pipeline using a method that has recently proven successful in medical image segmentation. Comparing it to an existing method, we find that while achieving similar results, our model outperforms the baseline regarding training time by a factor of approximately 20, thus making it more applicable for other datasets. The method has been tested on in situ data from the Wind spacecraft between 1997 and 2015 with a True Skill Statistic (TSS) of 0.64. Out of the 640 ICMEs, 466 were detected correctly by our algorithm, producing a total of 254 False Positives. Additionally, it produced reasonable results on datasets with fewer features and smaller training sets from Wind, STEREO-A and STEREO-B with True Skill Statistics of 0.56, 0.57 and 0.53, respectively. Our pipeline manages to find the start of an ICME with a mean absolute error (MAE) of around 2 hours and 56 minutes, and the end time with a MAE of 3 hours and 20 minutes. The relatively fast training allows straightforward tuning of hyperparameters and could therefore easily be used to detect other structures and phenomena in solar wind data, such as corotating interaction regions.
title Automatic Detection of Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejections in Solar Wind In Situ Data
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics
Machine Learning
Computational Physics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.03578