CME Solar Flares

Make solar drift plots and annotate CMEs.

This script plots solar drift (angle + time) per station, annotates CMEs that overlap the observation times (CACTus), and appends matches to a spreadsheet with persistent clickable hyperlinks across runs.

Outputs (defaults)

  • Plots → /home/jovyan/shared/auto_solar_drift_check/cme_flares_cands/<DATE>/

  • Spreadsheet Columns: date, time, stations, t0, dt0, CME number, CME link (hyperlinked)

You can override the output root with --output-root.

ska_sci_ops_data_analysis.cme_solar_flares.make_plots_for_date_range(start_date: str, end_date: str, *, base_glob: str = '/home/jovyan/shared/test_executions/AcquireBeamformed/multiple_{date}_*/*/*.hdf5', annotate_cmes: bool = True, srd_flux_col: int = 1, srd_max_sfu: float = 20000.0, output_root: Path = PosixPath('/home/jovyan/shared/auto_solar_drift_check/cme_flares_cands'))

Generate solar drift plots for a contiguous range of UTC dates.

Parameters:

  • start_date – Start date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

  • end_date – End date in YYYY-MM-DD format.

  • base_glob – Glob template used to locate input HDF5 files.

  • annotate_cmes – If True, query and annotate CACTus CMEs.

  • srd_flux_col – Zero-based index of SRD flux column after time.

  • srd_max_sfu – Maximum allowed SRD flux value in SFU.

  • output_root – Root directory for outputs.

Raises:

ValueError – If date strings are invalid or range is reversed.

Returns:

Dictionary with generated plot paths and output directories.

Return type:

dict