An X1.9 Class Solar Flare and its Aftermath - January 9, 2023
- Visualizations by:
- Tom Bridgman
- Produced by:
- Scott Wiessinger
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The X1.9 flare event of January 9, 2023 as seen in the SDO AIA 131 angstrom filter. Two smaller M-class flares occur at later times on other regions on the solar disk. The dark region around the central 'X' marking the flare is an artifact of the PSF correction. 'Flickering' in the images around the flare are created due to the 'flare mode' images which have a shorter exposure. Normalizing the solar disk to the same brightness in these frames enhances the background noise off the solar disk.
Credits
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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio
Visualizer
- Tom Bridgman (GST) [Lead]
Producer
- Scott Wiessinger (KBRwyle) [Lead]
Technical support
- Ian Jones (ADNET)
- Laurence Schuler (ADNET)
Missions
This visualization is related to the following missions:Datasets used in this visualization
SDO AIA 131 (A.K.A. 131 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
See more visualizations using this data setSDO AIA 171 (A.K.A. 171 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
See more visualizations using this data setSDO AIA 304 (A.K.A. 304 Filter) (Collected with the AIA sensor)
Dataset can be found at: http://jsoc.stanford.edu/
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