Towards the reconstruction of the EUV irradiance for solar cycle 23

TL;DR

This paper presents a preliminary method for reconstructing the solar EUV irradiance during solar cycle 23 using spectral synthesis and image segmentation, showing good agreement with observations and aiming for future improvements.

Contribution

It introduces a novel reconstruction approach combining spectral synthesis with segmentation analysis to model EUV irradiance over a solar cycle.

Findings

Reconstructed EUV irradiance aligns well with SOHO observations.

The method covers most of solar cycle 23 from 1997 to 2005.

Future work will include more solar features and off-limb activity detection.

Abstract

We present preliminary reconstructions of the EUV from 26 to 34\,nm from February 1997 to May 2005, covering most of solar cycle 23. The reconstruction is based on synthetic EUV spectra calculated with the spectral synthesis code Solar Modeling in 3D (SolMod3D). These spectra are weighted by the relative area coverage of the coronal features as identified from EIT images. The calculations are based on one-dimensional atmospheric structures that represent a temporal and spatial mean of the chromosphere, transition region, and corona. The employed segmentation analysis considers coronal holes, the quiet corona, and active regions identified on the solar disk. The reconstructed EUV irradiance shows a good agreement with observations taken with the CELIAS/SEM instrument onboard SOHO. Further improvement of the reconstruction including more solar features as well as the off-limb detection of activity features will be addressed in the near future.