Documentation. (Unfinished)

Description:

Schrijver's R  value quantifies the amount of unsigned magnetic flux around a strong magnetic polarity inversion line (MPILs) present in the photospheric normal-to-surface magnetic field of an active region. Original calculation of R was implemented for line-of-sight MDI magnetograms, therefore this implementation reduce the HMI magnetogram's resolution from 0.5'' to 2.0''. In this implementantion, R value can be calculated using the radial-component magnetogram provided by the CEA version of HMI data.

Input data:

HARP cutouts of CEA Blos and Br.

Parameters:

Value of magnetic flux threshold (th) in order to define the strong portion of MPILs. Different values of th are used for  Blos or Br.

Output:

Log(R) value.

Property name in DB:

r_value_blos_logr, r_value_br_logr

Repository:

https://dev.flarecast.eu/stash/projects/FE/repos/rvalue-idl/browse

References

  1. http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007ApJ...655L.117S