Bibcode
Asensio Ramos, A.; Díaz Baso, C. J.
Bibliographical reference
Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 626, id.A102, 18 pp.
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2019
Journal
Citations
46
Refereed citations
41
Description
Context. Spectropolarimetric inversions are routinely used in the field
of solar physics for the extraction of physical information from
observations. The application to two-dimensional fields of view often
requires the use of supercomputers with parallelized inversion codes.
Even in this case, the computing time spent on the process is still very
large. Aims: Our aim is to develop a new inversion code based on
the application of convolutional neural networks that can quickly
provide a three-dimensional cube of thermodynamical and magnetic
properties from the interpreation of two-dimensional maps of Stokes
profiles. Methods: We trained two different architectures of
fully convolutional neural networks. To this end, we used the synthetic
Stokes profiles obtained from two snapshots of three-dimensional
magneto-hydrodynamic numerical simulations of different structures of
the solar atmosphere. Results: We provide an extensive analysis
of the new inversion technique, showing that it infers the
thermodynamical and magnetic properties with a precision comparable to
that of standard inversion techniques. However, it provides several key
improvements: our method is around one million times faster, it returns
a three-dimensional view of the physical properties of the region of
interest in geometrical height, it provides quantities that cannot be
obtained otherwise (pressure and Wilson depression) and the inferred
properties are decontaminated from the blurring effect of instrumental
point spread functions for free. The code, models, and data are all open
source and available for free, to allow both evaluation and training.
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