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MCALF is an open-source Python package for accurately constraining velocity information from spectral imaging observations using machine learning techniques.
This software package is intended to be used by solar physicists trying to extract line-of-sight (LOS) Doppler velocity information from spectral imaging observations (Stokes I measurements) of the Sun. A ‘toolkit’ is provided that can be used to define a spectral model optimised for a particular dataset.
This package is particularly suited for extracting velocity information from spectral imaging observations where the individual spectra can contain multiple spectral components. Such multiple components are typically present when active solar phenomenon occur within an isolated region of the solar disk. Spectra within such a region will often have a large emission component superimposed on top of the underlying absorption spectral profile from the quiescent solar atmosphere.
A sample model is provided for an IBIS Ca II 8542 Å spectral imaging sunspot dataset. This dataset typically contains spectra with multiple atmospheric components and this package supports the isolation of the individual components such that velocity information can be constrained for each component. Using this sample model, as well as the separate base (template) model it is built upon, a custom model can easily be built for a specific dataset.
The custom model can be designed to take into account the spectral shape of each particular spectrum in the dataset. By training a neural network classifier using a sample of spectra from the dataset labelled with their spectral shapes, the spectral shape of any spectrum in the dataset can be found. The fitting algorithm can then be adjusted for each spectrum based on the particular spectral shape the neural network assigned it.
This package is designed to run in parallel over large data cubes, as well as in serial. As each spectrum is processed in isolation, this package scales very well across many processor cores. Numerous functions are provided to plot the results in a clearly. The MCALF API also contains many useful functions which have the potential of being integrated into other Python packages.
For easier package management we recommend using Miniconda_ (or Anaconda)
and creating a new conda environment to install MCALF inside.
To install MCALF using Miniconda_, run the following commands in your
system's command prompt, or if you are using Windows, in the
'Anaconda Prompt':
.. code:: bash
$ conda config --add channels conda-forge
$ conda config --set channel_priority strict
$ conda install mcalf
MCALF is updated to the latest version by running:
.. code:: bash
$ conda update mcalf
Alternatively, you can install MCALF using pip:
.. code:: bash
$ pip install mcalf
A test suite is included with the package. The package is tested on
multiple platforms, however you may wish to run the tests on your
system also. More details on running our tox/pytest test suite are
available in our documentation_.
Documentation is available here <https://mcalf.macbride.me/>.
Some examples are included here <examples/>.
|Contributor Covenant|
If you find this package useful and have time to make it even better,
you are very welcome to contribute to this package, regardless of how much
prior experience you have.
Types of ways you can contribute include, expanding the documentation with
more use cases and examples, reporting bugs through the GitHub issue tracker,
reviewing pull requests and the existing code, fixing bugs and implementing new
features in the code.
You are encouraged to submit any bug reports_ and pull requests_ directly
to the GitHub repository_.
Please note that this project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By participating in this project you agree to abide by its terms.
If you have used this package in work that leads to a publication, we would be very grateful if you could acknowledge your use of this package in the main text of the publication. Please cite the following publications,
MacBride CD, Jess DB. 2021
MCALF: Multi-Component Atmospheric Line Fitting.
*Journal of Open Source Software*. **6(61)**, 3265.
(`doi:10.21105/joss.03265 <https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.03265>`_)
..
MacBride CD, Jess DB, Grant SDT, Khomenko E, Keys PH, Stangalini M. 2020
Accurately constraining velocity information from spectral imaging
observations using machine learning techniques.
*Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A*. **379**, 2190.
(`doi:10.1098/rsta.2020.0171 <https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2020.0171>`_)
Please also cite the Zenodo DOI_ for the package version you used.
Please also consider integrating your code and examples into the package.
MCALF is licensed under the terms of the BSD 2-Clause license.
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.. _Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/products/individual#Downloads .. _Miniconda: https://docs.conda.io/en/latest/miniconda.html .. _new conda environment: https://docs.conda.io/projects/conda/en/latest/user-guide/tasks/manage-environments.html .. _documentation: https://mcalf.macbride.me/en/latest/guide/index.html#testing
.. _bug reports: https://github.com/ConorMacBride/mcalf/issues .. _pull requests: https://github.com/ConorMacBride/mcalf/pulls .. _GitHub repository: https://github.com/ConorMacBride/mcalf
.. _Zenodo DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3924527
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