Python Implementation for Local Correlation Tracking Analysis of Solar Data

Abstract:

The Local Correlation Tracking (LCT) technique is a robust method that has been extensively applied to infer proper motions of structures in time series of images. In solar physics research, LCT is a useful tool to analyse the dynamics of plasma and the evolution of magnetic fields in the solar atmosphere at different spatial and temporal scales, among others (e.g granular and supergranular convective cells, meridional flows, etc)

SunPy is a joint effort of, using the advantages of Python, developing tools to be applied for processing and analysis of solar data. In this work, a widget implemented in Python and Sunpy is developed, to generate a user-friendly graphical user interface (GUI) to control various parameters for the process of calculating flow maps of proper motions for a series of filtergrams.