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Exploring the Limits of Synthetic Creation of Solar EUV Images via Image-to-image Translation

Valentina Salvatelli
Luiz dos Santos
Souvik Bose
Brad Neuberg
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Mark Cheung
Miho Janvier
Meng Jin
Yarin Gal
Atilim Güneş Baydin

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Abstract The Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO), a NASA multispectral decade-long mission that has been daily producing terabytes of observational data from the Sun, has been recently used as a use case to demonstrate the potential of machine-learning methodologies and to pave the way for future deep space mission planning. In particular, the idea of using image-to-image translation to virtually produce extreme ultraviolet channels has been proposed in several recent studies, as a way to both enhance missions with fewer available channels and to alleviate the challenges due to the low downlink rate in deep space. This paper investigates the potential and the limitations of such a deep learning approach by focusing on the permutation of four channels and an encoder–decoder based architecture, with particular attention to how morphological traits and brightness of the solar surface affect the neural network predictions. In this work we want to answer the question: can synthetic images of the solar corona produced via image-to-image translation be used for scientific studies of the Sun? The analysis highlights that the neural network produces high-quality images over 3 orders of magnitude in count rate (pixel intensity) and can generally reproduce the covariance across channels within a 1% error. However, the model performance drastically diminishes in correspondence to extremely high energetic events like flares, and we argue that the reason is related to the rareness of such events posing a challenge to model training.
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hal-04481063 , version 1 (02-03-2024)

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Valentina Salvatelli, Luiz dos Santos, Souvik Bose, Brad Neuberg, Mark Cheung, et al.. Exploring the Limits of Synthetic Creation of Solar EUV Images via Image-to-image Translation. The Astrophysical Journal, 2022, 937 (2), pp.100. ⟨10.3847/1538-4357/ac867b⟩. ⟨hal-04481063⟩
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