[Loops] new spectroscopic analysis tool

Charles C. Kankelborg kankel at solar.physics.montana.edu
Mon Jun 29 13:21:35 MDT 2015


Thanks Jim & Leon. I'd never have discovered this!

-C


> On 2015 Jun 29, , at 11:46 AM, Leon Golub <lgolub at cfa.harvard.edu> wrote:
> 
> Here's another try. It should come through this time.
> 
> Leon
> 
> 
> On 06/29/2015 01:41 PM, DeLuca, Edward wrote:
>> Was there suppose to be an attachment?
>> 
>> On Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 1:33 PM, Leon Golub <lgolub at cfa.harvard.edu
>> <mailto:lgolub at cfa.harvard.edu>> wrote:
>> 
>>    Here's a copy of the Oktem et al. paper.
>> 
>>    Leon
>> 
>> 
>>    On 06/29/2015 01:26 PM, Klimchuk, James A. (GSFC-6710) wrote:
>> 
>>        Thanks, Charles. Another paper on this general subject that
>>        deals with spectral imaging (overlap-ograms) was recently
>>        published by Figen Oktem (Oktem et al. 2014, IEEE Trans. on
>>        Image Processing, vol. 23, no. 12, p. 5707). Unfortunately, it
>>        doesn't seem to be available on ADS.
>> 
>>        Cheers,
>>        Jim
>> 
>>            -----Original Message-----
>>            From: Charles C. Kankelborg
>>            [mailto:kankel at solar.physics.montana.edu
>>            <mailto:kankel at solar.physics.montana.edu>]
>>            Sent: Monday, June 29, 2015 12:39 PM
>>            To: Klimchuk, James A. (GSFC-6710)
>>            Cc: (Loops at solar.physics.montana.edu
>>            <mailto:Loops at solar.physics.montana.edu>)
>>            Subject: Re: [Loops] new spectroscopic analysis tool
>> 
>>            Hi Jim,
>> 
>>            This is a needed improvement. This kind of interpolation has
>>            been available for some
>>            time, but I have not see in applied to spectra (where it is
>>            probably most needed, for
>>            all the reasons you point out). Sakurai and Shin derived
>>            analytically, in closed form,
>>            a spline interpolation with rigorous photon conservation:
>> 
>>            Takashi Sakurai and Junho Shin, 2001
>>            "Interpolation of One- and Two-Dimensional Images with
>>            Pixelwise Photon Number
>>            Conservation "
>>            http://pasj.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/2/361.full
>> 
>>            With our usual detectors (rear-illuminated CCDs) there can
>>            be significant charge
>>            spreading in the field free region, so the pixels are well
>>            defined (in effect, they are
>>            fuzzy and overlapping). A proper flux-conserving
>>            interpolation scheme should take
>>            that into account. To my knowledge, that has not been done.
>> 
>>            Best regards,
>>            Charles
>> 
>> 
>>                On 2015 Jun 29, , at 6:59 AM, Klimchuk, James A. (GSFC-6710)
>> 
>>            <james.a.klimchuk at nasa.gov
>>            <mailto:james.a.klimchuk at nasa.gov>> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>                Hi everyone,
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>                      You might be interested in a new tool that Spiros,
>>                Durgesh, and I have
>> 
>>            developed for analyzing spectra. It can be downloaded
>>            fromhttp://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1506.08102
>>            <http://lanl.arxiv.org/abs/1506.08102>.  The abstract is below.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>                Hope to see many of you at Loops VII,
>> 
>>                Jim
>> 
>> 
>> 
>>                The detailed shapes of spectral line profiles provide
>>                valuable information about the
>> 
>>            emitting plasma, especially when the plasma contains an
>>            unresolvedline blends is
>>            another. We have developed an iterative procedure called
>>            Intensity Conserving
>>            Spline Interpolation (ICSI) that corrects for this effect.
>>            As its name implies, it
>>            conserves the observed intensity within each wavelength bin,
>>            which ordinary fits do
>>            not. Given the rapid convergence, speed of computation, and
>>            ease of use, we
>>            suggest that ICSI be made a standard component of the
>>            processing pipeline for
>>            spectroscopic data.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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>> 
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