Prediction of Halo Coronal Mass Ejections Using SDO/HMI Vector Magnetic Data Products and a Transformer Model

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Main Authors: Zhang, Hongyang, Jing, Ju, Wang, Jason T. L., Wang, Haimin, Abduallah, Yasser, Xu, Yan, Alobaid, Khalid A., Farooki, Hameedullah, Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
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author Zhang, Hongyang
Jing, Ju
Wang, Jason T. L.
Wang, Haimin
Abduallah, Yasser
Xu, Yan
Alobaid, Khalid A.
Farooki, Hameedullah
Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
author_facet Zhang, Hongyang
Jing, Ju
Wang, Jason T. L.
Wang, Haimin
Abduallah, Yasser
Xu, Yan
Alobaid, Khalid A.
Farooki, Hameedullah
Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
contents We present a transformer model, named DeepHalo, to predict the occurrence of halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Our model takes as input an active region (AR) and a profile, where the profile contains a time series of data samples in the AR that are collected 24 hours before the beginning of a day, and predicts whether the AR would produce a halo CME during that day. Each data sample contains physical parameters, or features, derived from photospheric vector magnetic field data taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We survey and match CME events in the Space Weather Database Of Notification, Knowledge, Information (DONKI) and Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) CME Catalog, and compile a list of CMEs including halo CMEs and non-halo CMEs associated with ARs in the period between November 2010 and August 2023. We use the information gathered above to build the labels (positive versus negative) of the data samples and profiles at hand, where the labels are needed for machine learning. Experimental results show that DeepHalo with a true skill statistics (TSS) score of 0.907 outperforms a closely related long short-term memory network with a TSS score of 0.821. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the transformer model has been used for halo CME prediction.
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spellingShingle Prediction of Halo Coronal Mass Ejections Using SDO/HMI Vector Magnetic Data Products and a Transformer Model
Zhang, Hongyang
Jing, Ju
Wang, Jason T. L.
Wang, Haimin
Abduallah, Yasser
Xu, Yan
Alobaid, Khalid A.
Farooki, Hameedullah
Yurchyshyn, Vasyl
Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Machine Learning
We present a transformer model, named DeepHalo, to predict the occurrence of halo coronal mass ejections (CMEs). Our model takes as input an active region (AR) and a profile, where the profile contains a time series of data samples in the AR that are collected 24 hours before the beginning of a day, and predicts whether the AR would produce a halo CME during that day. Each data sample contains physical parameters, or features, derived from photospheric vector magnetic field data taken by the Helioseismic and Magnetic Imager (HMI) on board the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO). We survey and match CME events in the Space Weather Database Of Notification, Knowledge, Information (DONKI) and Large Angle and Spectrometric Coronagraph (LASCO) CME Catalog, and compile a list of CMEs including halo CMEs and non-halo CMEs associated with ARs in the period between November 2010 and August 2023. We use the information gathered above to build the labels (positive versus negative) of the data samples and profiles at hand, where the labels are needed for machine learning. Experimental results show that DeepHalo with a true skill statistics (TSS) score of 0.907 outperforms a closely related long short-term memory network with a TSS score of 0.821. To our knowledge, this is the first time that the transformer model has been used for halo CME prediction.
title Prediction of Halo Coronal Mass Ejections Using SDO/HMI Vector Magnetic Data Products and a Transformer Model
topic Solar and Stellar Astrophysics
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.03237