Continuous activity:

Publication of full-disc white-light broad-band or continuum images - contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements:
ROB (USET telescopes): 2 to 20 images/day in 2k x 2k FITS format at http://sidc.be/uset/
UNIGRAZ (Kanzelhoehe Solar Observatory): 1image/minute during activity otherwise 1image/hour in 2kx2k format at http://cesar.kso.ac.at/
OBSPARIS:  3 G band images/day in 1800 x 1800 pixels format at http://bass2000.obspm.fr/home.php
KO (Debrecen Observatory):  1image/day in 4k x 4k format at  /

Steps toward the aims - results published on-line:
 
2008 November
KO - Publication of the full-disk white-light observations for 1986 - contribution to Task 2.3. (Digitization of the observations available in non-digitized form) - (images: 1986fd_small_jpg, 1986fd_large_jpg, 1986fd_large_fits)

2008 December
KO - Publication of  full-disk white-light observations  for 1988 - contribution to Task 2.3. (Digitization of the observations available in non-digitized form) - (images: 1988fd_small_jpg, 1988fd_large_jpg, 1988fd_large_fits)

2009 January
KO - Publication of Debrecen Photoheliographic Data sunspot catalogue for 2003 (DPD2003) and for 2007 (DPD2007)- contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements - (data: DPD2003.txt, DPD2007.txt)

2009 February
OBSPARIS -  The first G band image with a filter of 8.5 A FWHM at 4306 A. - contribution to continuous activity of Task 2.3. White-light measurements
KO - Publication of full-disk white-light observations for 1987 - contribution to Task 2.3. (Digitization of the observations available in non-digitized form) - (images: 1987fd_small_jpg, 1987fd_large_jpg, 1987fd_large_fits)

2009 March
KO - Publication of  historical full-disk white-light drawings of Ógyalla Observatory for 1872-1891 - contribution to Task 2.3. (Digitization of the observations available in non-digitized form) - HHSD

2009 April
First Semiannual Summary at the official site of SOTERIA
Report of ROB in extended form

2009 May
KO - Publication of magnetic observations appended to DPD for 2000 and 1980-1985  - contribution to Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - (images: 2000magn, 2000magn_jpg, 1980magn, 1980magn_jpg, 1981magn, 1981magn_jpg, 1982magn, 1982magn_jpg, 1983magn, 1983magn_jpg, 1984magn,  1985magn)
KO - Publication of a new interactive website for daily sunspot data presenting white-light and magnetic observations with sunspot group data and images at /DPD/index.html - contribution to the tasks of Virtual Observatory

2009 June
KO - Publication of  full-disk white-light observations for 1999 - contribution to Task 2.3. (Digitization of the observations available in non-digitized form) - (images: 1999fd_small_jpg, 1999fd_large_jpg, 1999fd_large_fits)

2009 July
KO - Publication of  full-disk white-light observations  for 1993 - contribution to Task 2.3. (Digitization of the observations available in non-digitized form) - (images: 1993fd_small_jpg, 1993fd_large_jpg, 1993fd_large_fits)

2009 August
KO - Publication of  Debrecen Photoheliographic Data sunspot catalogue for 2008 (DPD2008) including several CCD observations of UNIGRAZ and ROB - contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - (data: DPD2008.txt; images: 2008fd_small_jpg, 2008fd_large_jpg, 2008fd_large_fits , 2008magn, 2008magn_jpg)

2009 September
KO - Publication of  DPD sunspot group tilt angle database - contribution to Task 2.6. Utilization of photospheric data

2009 October
KO - Publication of  full-disk SDD sunspot catalogue for 1996 KO - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/1996/index.html,
(data: fdSDD1996, SDD1996; images: 1996fd_jpg, 1996M_jpg, 1996group_jpg, 1996group_fits)
Milestone 2.1. : Publication of  full-disk facular SDD catalogue ( facSDD1996 ) -contribution to Task 2.2. Facular data - /SDD/SDD.html

2009 November
First Annual Summary:
Overview on progress and status of WP2: A1S3WP2
Deliverables summaries:
A1D2.1 SOHO/MDI Continuum faculae
A1D2.2 SOHO/MDI Sunspot data (SDD)
A1D2.3 NaD1 magnetograms
A1D2.4 4 peer-reviewed publications
Milestones summaries:
A1M2.1 White-light faculae, start of publications
A1M2.2 SDD catalogue for 2008
A1M2.3 NaD1 magnetograms, start of publication
A1M2.4 results of photospheric studies

2009 December
Milestone 2.2. : Publication of  SDD catalogue for 2008 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/2008/index.html
(data: fdSDD2008, SDD2008; images: 2008fd_jpg, 2008M_jpg, 2008group_jpg, 2008group_fits)

2010 January
KO - Publication of Debrecen Photoheliographic Data sunspot catalogue for 2009 (DPD2009)- contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements - /DPD/2009/index.html     
(data: DPD2009.txt; )

2010 February
KO - Publication of  SDD catalogue for 2009 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/2009/index.html
(data: SDD2009, fdSDD2009; images: 2009I, 2009M, 2009fd_jpg, 2009M_jpg, 2009group_jpg, 2009group_fits)

2010 March
KO - Start of the publication of  the prompt quick-look SDD catalogue for 2010 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/QL/2010/index.html, /SDD/SDD.html
(data: QL_SDD2010; images: 2010I, 2010M, 2010fd_jpg, 2010M_jpg, 2010group_jpg, 2010group_fits)

2010 April
KO - Publication of magnetic observations appended to DPD 1977-1979  - contribution to Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - (images: 1977magn, 1977magn_jpg, 1978magn, 1978magn_jpg, 1979magn, 1979magn_jpg)

2010 May
KO - Publication of  the revised version of Debrecen Photoheliographic Data sunspot catalogue for 2007 - contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /DPD/2007/index.html,  
(data: DPD2007.txt; images: 2007fd_small_jpg, 2007fd_large_jpg, 2007fd_large_fits, 2007magn, 2007magn_jpg)

2010 June
KO - Publication of  SDD catalogue for 2007 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/2007/index.html
(data: SDD2007, fdSDD2007; images: 2007I, 2007M, 2007fd_jpg, 2007M_jpg, 2007group_jpg, 2007group_fits)

2010 July
KO - On-line MySQL query for DPD - contribution to Task 2.5. Standardisation of database formats - /test/query/index.html

2010 August
KO - Publication of  SDD catalogue for 1997 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations- /SDD/1997/index.html
(data: SDD1997, fdSDD1997; images: 1997I, 1997M,  1997fd_jpg, 1997M_jpg, 1997group_jpg, 1997group_fits)

2010 September
KO - Publication of the revised version of Debrecen Photoheliographic Data sunspot catalogue for 1999 - contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /DPD/1999/index.html
(data: DPD1999.txt ; images: 1999fd_small_jpg, 1999fd_large_jpg, 1999fd_large_fits, 1999magn, 1999magn_jpg)

2010 October
Second Annual Summary at the official site of SOTERIA
Report of ROB in extended form
Report of HVAR in extended form
Report of UNIGRAZ in extended form

2010 November
Milestone 2.3. : Start of publication of selected high-resolution  magnetograms - contribution to Task 2.4. Magnetic observations -
2010M - original fits images and
2010M_jpg - jpg images with solar north at the top

2010 December
KO - Publication of  Debrecen Photoheliographic Data sunspot catalogue for 2006 (DPD2006) - contribution to Task 2.3. White-light measurements and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /DPD/2006/index.html
(data:  DPD2006.txt; images: 2006fd_small_jpg, 2006fd_large_jpg, 2006fd_large_fits, 2006magn, 2006magn_jpg)

2011 January
KO - Publication of  SDD catalogue for 2006 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/2006/index.html
(data: SDD2006, fdSDD2006; images: 2006I, 2006M, 2006fd_jpg, 2006M_jpg, 2006group_jpg, 2006group_fits)

2011 February
The latest ground-based observations are measured and published on a daily basis at /DPD/2011/index.html by using the observations of KO, ROB and UNIGRAZ.

2011 March
Searchable version of the SOHO/MDI - Debrecen Sunspot Data catalogue is available at /test/querysoho/index.html to provide an easily accessible and exploitable on-line query format for the data.

2011 April
The first half of the set of SOHO/MDI facular data has been published recently at /SDD/SDD.html

2011 May
The second half of the set of SOHO/MDI facular data has been published recently at /SDD/SDD.html - Deliverable 2.1 is completed.

2011 June
KO - Publication of  SDD catalogue for 1998 - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/1998/index.html
(data: SDD1998, fdSDD1998; images: 1998I, 1998M, 1998fd_jpg, 1998M_jpg, 1998group_jpg, 1998group_fits)

2011 July
ROB - The digitization of the collection (20000 drawings over 71 years) has been completed. The scanned drawings are publicly accessible through a new SIDC Web interface - contribution to Task 2.3.  White-light measurements

2011 August
KO - Additional tables for tilt angles of sunspot groups derived from SDD -  contribution to Task 2.3.  White-light measurements and Task 2.6. Utilization of photospheric data

2011 September
KO - On-line MySQL query for SDD - contribution to Task 2.5. Standardisation of database formats

2011 October
KO - The  SDD catalogue is completed - contribution to Task 2.1.  SDD Sunspot data and Task 2.4. Magnetic observations - /SDD/
ROB - Report  in extended form

Third Annual Summary:

A3S2WP2

WP2 Photosphere, project year 3 (November 2010-October 2011) goals. Beneficiaries: HVAR, KO, OBSPARIS, ROB, UNIGRAZ, UOulu, Lead: KO

All deliverables were due in the third year so the participants of the WP2 had to achieve fulfilments of the following goals.

- D2.1 "SOHO/MDI continuum faculae" - This work had to wait for the release of the HMI/SDO observations for calibration purposes, because the area measurements are fairly sensitive to the proper intensity threshold between photospheric and facular regions. After having executed the necessary calibrations and test of the measurements of the faculae on the SOHO/MDI white light images, the objective of the third year was to run the appropriately installed software and to accomplish the entire catalogue of white-light faculae.

- D2.2 "SOHO/MDI sunspot data" - This is a high resolution sunspot catalogue. Its importance lays in the unique completeness of sunspot data. Considering that the procedure has high manpower and computing requirements the majority of the work was necessarily scheduled to growing speed. After the preparatory stages, computer installations, hiring and instructing assistents, learning phase, most of the work had to be done in the later periods. The third year was entirely devoted to the routine work of completion.

- D2.3 "NaD1 magnetograms" - This delivery has been changed. The original proposal of the OBSPARIS for high resolution magnetograms became partly impossible (for personal and instrumental reasons) partly unnecessary (because of the launch of SDO spacecraft). On one hand the OBSPARIS proposed another deliverable in WP3, the D3.8 entitled "Coupling observations coronal magnetic modeling and MHD numerical simulations". On the other hand the hourly selection of SDO magnetograms are being put continuously at the address: /ESA/HMIDD.html. As an originally not proposed activity, SOHO/MDI magnetograms (of lower resolution) are also attached to the materials of the SDD catalogue. Thus, no loss happened with the change whereas a new scientific output was achieved.

- D2.4 publications - As expected, the majority of the publications also appeared in the third year. In earlier phases of the cooperation several discussions were made among WP2 participants to foster the common work in the planned topics.  Targeted topics were: active solar longitudes, solar rotation, solar activity indices and data, magnetic flux emergence.

The cooperation was promoted by several conference events. One invited review, seven oral presentations and one WP2 splinter session were held at international conferences. One travel has been made to prepare a multi-author paper in which HVAR, UNIGRAZ and KO are involved. Besides the achieved results this deepened cooperation is an important revenue of the project.


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A3S3WP2

WP2 Photosphere, project year 3 (November 2010-October 2011) progress and successes

Beneficiaries: HVAR, KO, OBSPARIS, ROB, UNIGRAZ, UOulu Lead: KO

The following progresses have been achieved in the WP2 goals:

- Deliverable D2.1 "SOHO/MDI continuum faculae". After having appropriately calibrated, tested and installed the area-measuring software it has run on the properly selected observations of the entire SOHO/MDI period. The catalogue is accessible at the address: /SDD/SDD.html.  The significance of the new material lays in its novelty. Solar faculae contribute to the solar irradiance by excess radiation but up to now this contribution had to be accounted through proxy data. The new dataset provides a direct measure of the facular role in the irradiance variations. In the future correlations and cross-calibrations are planned with the existing datasets, primarily with facular data observed in the chromospheric K line.

- Deliverable D2.2 "SOHO/MDI-Debrecen sunspot Data". The sunspot data have been produced, it is accessible at the above mentioned address: /SDD/SDD.html. At present, this dataset is the only catalogue containing data of positions, areas and magnetic fields for sunspot groups, all sunspots, umbrae and penumbrae in hourly cadence for the entire SOHO/MDI era: 1997-2011. Furthermore, the online material contains all original full-disc images and  magnetograms. The entire material is handled by a html surface in which the user can easily survey the progress of activity by turning the pages of the observational moments. By clicking on the specific active regions all their numerical data and the images of the active regions can be seen. Additional features are also added to the material which have not been proposed in the Annex: a MySQL search facility is installed to find selected activity features, data of sunspot group tilts have also been added to the catalogue.
Ground-based images and magnetograms used for completion and validation of the space-borne data as well as for extension of the databases backwards in time.  The DPD catalogue (Debrecen Photoheliographic Data) also achieved a significant progress, it was processed and revised to provide input data for production of SDD. 
To extened the databases backwards in time the digitization of the collection (20000 drawings over 71 years) of Uccle Observatory has been completed.

- Deliverable D2.3 "NaD1 magnetograms".  As outlined in Section 2, this deliverable has been exchanged to another one, the D3.8, the relevant report is presented there.

- Deliverable D2.4 "4 peer-reviewed publications". The previous deliverables were devoted to data production, the publication activity is collected in this deliverable. Until this report eight peer-reviewed papers appeared in printed form, four further papers are accepted for publication and one is submitted. The publication activity acknowledging SOTERIA support was even more intense than this. Four publications appeared in peer-reviewed conference proceedings and three reports will appear in a later issue of the same bulletin. Four reports were published in an IAU Symposium volume.

Two papers are devoted to the solar active longitudes, partly to the non-axisymmetry of solar activity, partly to the longitudinal distribution of explosive events. Two further papers deal with the rotation of coronal structures by tracing bright features in the corona. The magnetic flux emergence is the subject of two appeared and three accepted papers, their twisted morphology, force-free modeling, flux outflow from emerging region, and a special morphological feature, the magnetic tongues. One paper describes the evolution of sunspot indices, which was one of the most important topics of cooperation between the WP participants. Long-term solar behaviour is investigated by data of cosmogenic isotopes (one appeared, one submitted paper), and by long-term variation of hemispheric phase lags (accepted paper). One submitted paper treats the role of small-sunspot deficit in the peculiarity of cycle 23. Further results related to the listed topics were reported at several conferences and published in conference proceedings. 

The aims set in the proposal and the Annex for WP2 have been fulfilled. The cooperation formed between the participants will be an important element in the future sinergies.