Solar activity

An integral tohban task is monitoring solar activity and reporting the results at the end of the week.

  • Online GOES data:
    Hugh's GOES plots with RHESSI times contains the most tohban-relevant information;
    LMSAL GOES plots allows one to access anytime GOES data;
    GOES 1-minute plots provides live data for flares;
    GOES 3-day plots contains current information on both flares and active regions.

  • McTiernan's metadata plots provide flare data.

  • Use the following IDL command for a list of flares in a specified time period above a specified class:

    IDL> pr_gev,t1,t2,above='class'

    For example,

    IDL> pr_gev,'01-jul-03','03-jul-03',above='C'

    returns the following list. From such a list, select the flares that were partially or completely observed by RHESSI (from Hugh's GOES plots with RHESSI times), and include them in your tohban report.

    Similarly,

    IDL> pr_nar,t1,t2

    will return visible active regions within a specified time period.

  • BBSO Active Region Monitor displays active region information.

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