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AIA to STEREO coordinate conversion#
How to convert a point of a source on an AIA image to a position on a STEREO image.
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
import astropy.units as u
from astropy.coordinates import SkyCoord
import sunpy.coordinates
import sunpy.map
from sunpy.data.sample import AIA_193_JUN2012, STEREO_A_195_JUN2012
from sunpy.sun import constants
Create a dictionary with the two maps, cropped down to full disk.
maps = {m.detector: m.submap(SkyCoord([-1100, 1100]*u.arcsec,
[-1100, 1100]*u.arcsec,
frame=m.coordinate_frame))
for m in sunpy.map.Map([AIA_193_JUN2012, STEREO_A_195_JUN2012])}
maps['AIA'].plot_settings['vmin'] = 0 # set the minimum plotted pixel value
INFO: Missing metadata for solar radius: assuming the standard radius of the photosphere. [sunpy.map.mapbase]
INFO: Missing metadata for solar radius: assuming the standard radius of the photosphere. [sunpy.map.mapbase]
We will be transforming coordinates where the formation height of 304 A emission makes a difference, so we set the reference solar radius to 4 Mm above the solar surface (see Alissandrakis 2019).
Plot both maps.
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))
for i, m in enumerate(maps.values()):
ax = fig.add_subplot(1, 2, i+1, projection=m)
m.plot(axes=ax)
We are now going to pick out a region around the south west corner:
aia_bottom_left = SkyCoord(700 * u.arcsec,
100 * u.arcsec,
frame=maps['AIA'].coordinate_frame)
aia_top_right = SkyCoord(850 * u.arcsec,
350 * u.arcsec,
frame=maps['AIA'].coordinate_frame)
Plot a rectangle around the region we want to crop.
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(projection=maps['AIA'])
maps['AIA'].plot(axes=ax)
maps['AIA'].draw_quadrangle(aia_bottom_left, top_right=aia_top_right)
<astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.patches.Quadrangle object at 0x7f81a45c64e0>
Create a submap of this area and draw an X at a specific feature of interest.
subaia = maps['AIA'].submap(aia_bottom_left, top_right=aia_top_right)
fig = plt.figure()
ax = fig.add_subplot(projection=subaia)
subaia.plot(axes=ax)
feature_aia = SkyCoord(800 * u.arcsec,
300 * u.arcsec,
frame=maps['AIA'].coordinate_frame)
ax.plot_coord(feature_aia, 'bx', fillstyle='none', markersize=20)
[<matplotlib.lines.Line2D object at 0x7f81a7169b20>]
We can transform the coordinate of the feature to see its representation as seen by STEREO EUVI. The original coordinate did not contain a distance from the observer, so it is converted to a 3D coordinate assuming that it has a radius from Sun center equal to the reference solar radius of the coordinate frame, which we set earlier to be the formation height of 304 A emission.
print(feature_aia.transform_to(maps['EUVI'].coordinate_frame))
<SkyCoord (Helioprojective: obstime=2012-06-01T00:05:34.833, rsun=699700.0 km, observer=<HeliographicStonyhurst Coordinate (obstime=2012-06-01T00:05:34.833, rsun=699700.0 km): (lon, lat, radius) in (deg, deg, m)
(116.29405786, 6.81772843, 1.43457186e+11)>): (Tx, Ty, distance) in (arcsec, arcsec, m)
(-779.65092261, 243.90560157, 1.43047687e+11)>
Now we can plot this box on both the AIA and EUVI images. Note that using
draw_quadrangle()
means that the plotted
rectangle will be automatically warped appropriately to account for the
different coordinate frames.
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(10, 4))
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121, projection=maps['AIA'])
maps['AIA'].plot(axes=ax1)
maps['AIA'].draw_quadrangle(aia_bottom_left, top_right=aia_top_right, axes=ax1)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(122, projection=maps['EUVI'])
maps['EUVI'].plot(axes=ax2)
maps['AIA'].draw_quadrangle(aia_bottom_left, top_right=aia_top_right, axes=ax2)
<astropy.visualization.wcsaxes.patches.Quadrangle object at 0x7f8198bcd7c0>
We can now zoom in on the region in the EUVI image, and we also draw an X
at the feature marked earlier. We do not need to explicitly transform the
feature coordinate to the matching coordinate frame; that is performed
automatically by plot_coord()
.
fig = plt.figure(figsize=(15, 5))
ax1 = fig.add_subplot(121, projection=subaia)
subaia.plot(axes=ax1)
ax1.plot_coord(feature_aia, 'bx', fillstyle='none', markersize=20)
subeuvi = maps['EUVI'].submap(aia_bottom_left, top_right=aia_top_right)
ax2 = fig.add_subplot(122, projection=subeuvi)
subeuvi.plot(axes=ax2)
maps['AIA'].draw_quadrangle(aia_bottom_left, top_right=aia_top_right, axes=ax2)
ax2.plot_coord(feature_aia, 'bx', fillstyle='none', markersize=20)
plt.show()
Total running time of the script: (0 minutes 4.046 seconds)