Building an Online Catalog for Correlating Solar Prominence and Sigmoid Images when CME's are Present

A collaborative study by
Montana State Solar Physics Group,
NSO in Sunspot, NM,
Abaetern Academy: Montana's Virtual K-12 School

Funded in part by the Murdock Foundation

Correlating events leading to CME's are the focus of this online catalog that is currently in the process of being built. Any suggestions concerning the design of this catalog are timely and welcomed.

Email Ivy Merriot with comments.

Online accessibility of solar data is highly useful to researchers at all levels. The data in this online catalog will include SXT images when sigmoids are present (Zach Blehm's catalog and YPOP archives), links to Yashiro's online catalog of CME eruptions (LASCO asnd SOHO data), and newly digitized H-alpha images from Sac Peak, NM.

This catalog will allow the user to search for correlation of events, not just dates. For example, the user can ask for all the CME's accompanied by the eruption of filaments and transequatorial loops over a certain period of time. The catalog will then give the user only the events which fit this criteria.

Proposed Categories for this Catalog:
Date, Time: Prom / Sigmoid/ CME
Location on Solar Disk
Active Region Number
Images: H-alpha
Links to Images in Yashiro, SOHO, YPOP
Filament Erupts (yes/no)
CME Occurs (yes/no)
Sigmoid Present (yes/no)
Transequatorial Loop Occur (yes/ no)
Link to Seismic Data
Comments

If you have other parameters, wavelengths, etc. that you would like to see in this catalog, please let us know! Email Ivy Merriot

Abstract from Solar Physics Division 2003
Conference: Laurel, Maryland, USA
Building an On-line Catalog of Correlated Solar Prominence and Sigmoid Images

I.V. Merriot (Abaetern Academy, Bozeman, MT), A Pevtsov (NSO), P. Martens (Montana State U.)