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Small Synoptic Charts of the Line-of-Sight Component of the Photospheric Magnetic Field

Metadata Updated: September 19, 2025

This map is produced by applying a boxcar average to the high-resolution line-of-sight synoptic map, hmi.Synoptic_Ml_720s.Synoptic charts are maps of the entire Sun produced in Carrington coordinates. Synoptic maps are constructed by merging together solar observations taken over many days. Magnetic-field synoptic charts are produced using central meridian data from HMI full-disk magnetograms.Synoptic maps are constructed from HMI 720s line-of-sight Magnetograms collected over a 27-day solar rotation. Near-central-meridian data from 20 magnetograms contribute to each point in the final map.HMI 720s line-of-sight magnetograms are first converted to 'radial field magnetograms' by dividing by the cosine of the angle from disk center, i.e. for this purpose we assume that HMI measures the line-of-sight component of a purely radial magnetic field. Individual 'radial' magnetograms are then remapped and interpolated onto a very high-resolution Carrington coordinate grid. For each Carrington longitude the values from the 20 magnetograms obtained closest in time to the central meridian passage (CMP) of that longitude are averaged. By using a constant number of contributing magnetograms, the variation of the noise over the entire map is minimized. Generally all data are taken within about 2 degrees of CMP. The effective temporal width of the HMI synoptic map contribution is about three hours, i.e. 20 720-s magnetograms are obtained within about 90 minutes of central meridian passage. The final HMI synoptic maps have a size of 3600 x 1440, which means the resolution is lower than the disk-center resolution of a single HMI magnetogram. A two-dimensional Gaussian function is applied to high-resolution remapped data to reduce the spatial resolution before generating the 3600*1440 synoptic maps. The width of the Gaussian is 3 pixels. The upper limit of the noise is 2.3 Mx cm2.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date August 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date August 21, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 19, 2025
Publisher SDO HMI-AIA JSOC at Stanford
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Identifier https://doi.org/10.48322/sjvb-rb76
Data Last Modified 2025-09-10
Category Heliophysics
Public Access Level public
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Homepage URL https://doi.org/10.48322/sjvb-rb76
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Temporal 2010-05-19/2010-05-19

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