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An example script can be found at [https://github.com/binchensun/eovsa-tutorial/blob/master/rhessi18/imaging_example.py this Github link]. If you are on the AWS server Virgo, it is under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_example.py. First, download or copy the script to your own working directory and cd to your directory.  
An example script can be found at [https://github.com/binchensun/eovsa-tutorial/blob/master/rhessi18/imaging_example.py this Github link]. If you are on the AWS server Virgo, it is under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_example.py. First, download or copy the script to your own working directory and cd to your directory.  
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Revision as of 03:19, 18 May 2019

Browsing and Obtaining EOVSA data

Browsing EOVSA data in RHESSI Browser

Currently the most convenient way for browsing EOVSA data is through the RHESSI Browser. First, check the "EOVSA Radio Data" box on the data selection area (top-left corner). Then select year/month/date to view the overall EOVSA dynamic spectrum. Note if a time is selected at early UTC hours (e.g., 0-3 UT), it will show the EOVSA dynamic spectrum from the previous day. Also note that EOVSA data were not commissioned for spectroscopic imaging prior to April 2017. An example of the overview EOVSA dynamic spectrum for 2017 Aug 21 is shown in the figure on the right.

The overview EOVSA dynamic spectra are from the median of the uncalibrated cross-power visibilities at a few short baselines, which are not (but a good proxy of) the total-power dynamic spectra. The effects of spatial information blended in the cross-power visibilities can be clearly seen as the "U"-shaped features throughout the day, which are due to the movement of the Sun across the sky that effectively changes the length and orientation of the baselines. Flare times can be easily seen in the EOVSA dynamic spectra, which usually appear as vertical bright features across many frequency bands. More information can be found on this page.

We are currently working on a pipeline to create quicklook full-disk images for implementation at the RHESSI Browser in a way similar as the RHESSI quicklook images. Please stay tuned.

Once you identify the flare time, you can find the full-resolution (1-s cadence) uncalibrated visibility files (in Miriad format) at this link. Each data file is usually 10 minutes in duration. Name convention is YYYYMMDD/IDBYYYYMMDDHHMMSS, where the time in the file name indicates the start time of the visibility data.

Calibrating EOVSA data

  • Calibration: Calibration of the EOVSA data is an involved process. We are currently working on a semi-automatic pipeline for calibrating the visibility data. At this moment, however, please contact the EOVSA team if you wish to have calibrated visibility data for a specific event. In the near future, we envision the pipeline-calibrated visibility data to be available for download on a regular basis.
  • Self-calibration: For improving the quality of the imaging, self-calibration is usually needed. This is still a work-in-progress, but we have had some successful practice in self-calibrating some flare events. Please refer to Self-Calibrating Flare Data for examples and detailed discussions on our current practice for self-calibrating EOVSA flare data.

In this tutorial, we will demonstrate steps for spectral imaging (self-)calibrated visibility data for a C-class flare on 2017 Aug 21 at ~20:20 UT, followed by a tutorial on visualizing and analyzing the resulting spectral imaging cube. The visibility data can be downloaded from this link. If you are on our AWS cloud server (means for accessing the server are discussed in Section 3.1.1), it is located at /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms

Analyzing EOVSA data

Software

We have developed two packages for EOVSA data processing and analysis:

  • SunCASA A wrapper around CASA (the Common Astronomy Software Applications package) for synthesis imaging and visualizing solar spectral imaging data. CASA is one of the leading software tool for "supporting the data post-processing needs of the next generation of radio astronomical telescopes such as ALMA and VLA", an international effort led by the National Radio Astronomy Observatory. The current version of CASA uses Python (2.7) interface. More information about CASA can be found on NRAO's CASA website . Note, CASA is available ONLY on UNIX-BASED PLATFORMS (so does SunCASA).
  • GSFIT A IDL-widget(GUI)-based spectral fitting package called gsfit, which provides a user-friendly display of EOVSA image cubes and an interface to fast fitting codes (via platform-dependent shared-object libraries).

There are two approaches in accessing our software packages. One is through our Amazon AWS server (recommended for participants of the EOVSA tutorial at the RHESSI 18 Workshop). Another is to install them on your own machine. We discuss the first approach in Section 2.1, and the second in Section 2.2 (SunCASA) and 2.3 (GSFIT).

Using Software on AWS server (Recommended for this Tutorial)

We use an Amazon AWS Lightsail server for testing purposes. The server has 2 CPUs, 8 GB RAM, and 160 GB SSD storage. It runs CentOS 7 (1901-01) Linux. Please limit your usage to LIGHTWEIGHT DATA PROCESSING ONLY.

NOTE: THE ACCOUNT IS ONLY INTENDED FOR THE EOVSA TUTORIAL, BUT *NOT* FOR CARRYING OUT ACTUAL DATA REDUCTION

  • Obtain SSH Key from Bin Chen
  • Put it under a secure location on your own machine.
  • Follow remaining directions depending on your client machine.

Connecting via Linux / Mac

Recommend to use "~/.ssh" (create if it does not exist by "mkdir ~/.ssh").

  • Edit the permission of ~/.ssh and the key (here I use ~/.ssh as the directory to place your key)
chmod 700 ~/.ssh
chmod 400 ~/.ssh/guest-virgo.pem
  • Log on to test AWS server (password-less)
ssh -X -i ~/.ssh/guest-virgo.pem guest@virgo.arcs.az.njit.edu

Now you are connected to virgo.

Connecting via Windows (MobaXterm)

Recommend to use "Documents\MobaXterm\home\.ssh", which should exist if you have already installed the free MobaXterm[1].

  • Create new session, click SSH, enter virgo.arcs.az.njit.edu for Remote host, guest for username.
  • On advanced SSH settings tab, click Use private key, navigate to and select file guest_key.pem
  • Close setup window and click the new sessions icon, which will log you in.

Startup SunCASA and sswIDL

Once the connection is setup, you will have access to SunCASA and GSFIT (included in the sswIDL installation). To not interfere with others (who share the same "guest" account), please create your own directory and work under it. For easier identification, please use the initial of your first name and your full last name as the name of your directory (here "bchen" is used as an example).

[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~]$ mkdir bchen
[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~]$ cd bchen

Enter SunCASA

[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~/bchen]$ suncasa

Enter sswIDL

[guest@ip-172-26-5-203 ~/bchen]$ sswidl

SunCASA Installation

Please click on the link above for details regarding installation of SunCASA on your own machine (only available on Unix-bases OS). This will take you to another page.

GSFIT Installation

Please click on the link above for details regarding installation of GSFIT on your own machine. This will take you to another page.

Spectral Imaging with SunCASA

Preparation

This tutorial uses EOVSA observation of a C-class occurred on August 21, 2017. The calibrated and self-calibrated dataset for the tutorial can be downloaded and accessed on Virgo. If you are on Virgo, please copy it over to your own working directory (e.g., ~/bchen/).

cd yourworkdirectory
cp -r /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms ./

EOVSA data is handled in CASA tables system, known as a Measurement Set (MS). The actual visibility data are stored in a MAIN table that contains a number of rows, each of which is effectively a single timestamp for a single spectral window and a single baseline. Within SunCASA, you will have access to a collection of tools that allow you to explore and utilize the new radio dynamic spectroscopic imaging data from EOVSA. To start SunCASA, use:

suncasa

Within SunCASA, you are under the IPython environment. Everything you know about (I)Python should be applicable here. The installation comes with frequently used packages including Matplotlib, Numpy, SciPy, AstroPy, SunPy. However, it is not very intuitive to add (compatible) Python packages within (Sun)CASA. If you need some specific packages for your analysis, and it does not require direct interaction with (Sun)CASA, we recommend you to use the standard Python environment. On Virgo, we have installed Anaconda 3, which can be accessed by, e.g.,

ipython

Cross-Power Dynamic Spectrum

The first module we introduce is dspec. This module allows you to generate a dynamic spectrum from an MS file, and visualize it. You can select a subset of data by specifying a time range, spectral windows/channels, antenna baseline, or uvrange. The selection syntax follows the CASA convention. More information of CASA selection syntax may be found in the above links or the Measurement Selection Syntax.

Figure 1: EOVSA cross power dynamic spectrum at stokes XX and YY
from suncasa.utils import dspec as ds
import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
## define the visbility data file
msfile = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms' 
## define the output filename of the dynamic spectrum 
specfile = msfile + '.dspec.npz'  
## select relatively short baselines within a length (here I use 0.15~0.5km), 
## and take a median cross all of them (with the domedian parameter)
## alternatively, you can use the "bl" parameter to select individual baseline(s)
uvrange = '0.15~0.5km'
## this step generates a dynamic spectrum and saves it to specfile
ds.get_dspec(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, uvrange=uvrange, domedian=True)
## Other optional parameters are available for more selection criteria 
## such as frequency range ("spw"), and time range ("timeran")
## Use "ds.get_dspec?" to see more options

## define the polarizations to show (here I use XX and YY)
pol='XXYY'
## The following command displays the resulting cross-power dynamic spectrum
ds.plt_dspec(specfile, pol=pol)
plt.show()

Now you should have a popup window showing the dynamic spectrum. Hover your mouse over the dynamic spectrum, you can read the time and frequency information at the bottom of the window.

Quick-Look Imaging

Imaging EOVSA data involves image cleaning, as well as solar coordinate transformation and image registration. We bundled a number of these steps ino a module named qlookplot, allowing user to generate a observing summary plot showing cross power dynamic spectrum, GOES light curves and EOVSA quick-look images. Now let us start with making a summary plot of EOVSA image at the spectral window 5 (5.4 GHz).

Figure 2: EOVSA single band observing summary
## in SunCASA
from suncasa.utils import qlookplot as ql
msfile = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms'
## provide the dynamic spectrum data or it will generate a new one.
specfile = msfile + '.dspec.npz'  
## set the time interval
timerange = '20:21:10~20:21:30'  
## select the spectral window 5
spw = '5'  
## select stokes XX
stokes = 'XX'   
## turn off AIA image plotting, default is True
plotaia = False 
## force to use a circular Gaussian as the restoring beam
restoringbeam = ['20arcsec']  

ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, \
stokes=stokes,restoringbeam = restoringbeam, plotaia=plotaia)

With qlookplot, it is easy to engage solar data from SDO/AIA in the summary plot.

Figure 3: EOVSA single band observing summary
## in SunCASA
ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, \
stokes=stokes,restoringbeam = restoringbeam)

The resulted radio image is a 4-D datacube (in solar X-pos, Y-pos, frequency, and polarization), which is, by default, saved as a fits file msfile + '.outim.image.fits' under your working directory. The name of the output fits file can be specified using the "outfits" parameter.

SIMPLE  =                    T /Standard FITS                                   
BITPIX  =                  -32 /Floating point (32 bit)                         
NAXIS   =                    4                                                  
NAXIS1  =                  512/ Nx
NAXIS2  =                  512/ Ny                                             
NAXIS3  =                    1/  number of frequency                                           
NAXIS4  =                    2/  number of polarization

By default, qlookplot produces a full sun radio image (512x512 with a pixel size of 5"). If you know where the radio source is, you can make a partial solar image around the source by specifing the image center, pixel size, and image size.

Figure 4: EOVSA single band observing summary
## in SunCASA
xycen = [375, 45]  ## image center for clean in solar X-Y in arcsec
cell=['2.0arcsec', '2.0arcsec'] ## pixel size
imsize=[128, 128]   ## x and y image size in pixels
fov = [100,100]  ## field of view of the zoomed-in panels in unit of arcsec
ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, stokes=stokes,\
restoringbeam=restoringbeam,imsize=imsize,cell=cell,xycen=xycen,fov=fov)

Next, we will make image for every single spectral window in this data set (from spw 1 to 30, spw 0 is in the ms, but is empty).

Figure 5: EOVSA multi bands observing summary
## in SunCASA
xycen = [375, 45]  ## image center for clean in solar X-Y in arcsec
cell=['2.0arcsec', '2.0arcsec'] ## pixel size
imsize=[128, 128]   ## x and y image size in pixels
fov = [100,100]  ## field of view of the zoomed-in panels in unit of arcsec
spw = ['{}'.format(ll) for ll in range(1,31)]
clevels = [0.5, 1.0]  ## the contour levels of the transparent contours of the radio maps.
calpha=0.35  ## the alpha blending value
ql.qlookplot(vis=msfile, specfile=specfile, timerange=timerange, spw=spw, stokes=stokes, \
            restoringbeam=restoringbeam,imsize=imsize,cell=cell, \
            xycen=xycen,fov=fov,clevels=clevels,calpha=calpha)

The output fits file is saved to msfile + '.outim.image.fits' under your working directory.

SIMPLE  =                    T / conforms to FITS standard                      
BITPIX  =                  -64 / array data type                                
NAXIS   =                    4 / number of array dimensions                     
NAXIS1  =                  128                                                  
NAXIS2  =                  128                                                  
NAXIS3  =                   30                                                  
NAXIS4  =                    2  

Batch-Mode Imaging

This section is for interested users who wish to generate FITS files with full control on all parameters being used for synthesis imaging. We provide one example SunCASA script for generating 30-band spectral imaging maps, and another for iterating over time to produce a time series of these maps.

Producing a 30-band map at a given time

An example script can be found at this Github link. If you are on the AWS server Virgo, it is under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_example.py. First, download or copy the script to your own working directory and cd to your directory.

cd your_working_directory
cp /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_example.py ./
Example multi-frequency images at a single time integration

Second (optional), change inputs in the following block in your copy of the "imaging_example.py" script and save the changes. This block has definitions for time range, image center and FOV, antennas used, cell size, number of pixels, etc.

################### USER INPUT GOES IN THIS BLOK ########################
vis = 'IDB20170821201800-202300.4s.slfcaled.ms' # input visibility data
trange = '2017/08/21/20:21:00~2017/08/21/20:21:30' #select the time range for imaging (averaging)
xycen = [380., 50.] # define the center of the output map, in solar X and Y. Unit: arcsec
xran = [280., 480.] # plot range in solar X. Unit: arcsec
yran = [-50., 150.] # plot range in solar Y. Unit: arcsec
antennas = '0~12' # use all 13 EOVSA antennas. If some antenna is no good, drop it in this selection
npix = 256 # number of pixels in the image
cell = '1arcsec' # pixel scale in arcsec
pol = 'XX' # polarization to image, use XX for now
pbcor = True # correct for primary beam response?
outdir = './images' # Specify where you want to save the output fits files
if not os.path.exists(outdir):
    os.makedirs(outdir)
outimgpre = 'EO' # Something to add to the output image name
#################################################################################

Then, run the script in SunCASA by

execfile('imaging_example.py')

The output fits images are saved under outdir. The naming conversion is outimgpre + YYYYMMDDTHHMMSS.SSS_S##.fits, where ## is the frequency band index number. See below for an example:

CASA <##>: ls ./images
EO20170821T202115.000_S01.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S07.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S13.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S19.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S25.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S02.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S08.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S14.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S20.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S26.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S03.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S09.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S15.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S21.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S27.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S04.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S10.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S16.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S22.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S28.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S05.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S11.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S17.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S23.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S29.fits
EO20170821T202115.000_S06.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S12.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S18.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S24.fits  EO20170821T202115.000_S30.fits

From this point, you can use your favorite language (SSWIDL users: fits2map.pro would work on these) to read the fits files and plot them. The last block of the example script uses SunPy.map to generate the plot shown on the right.

Producing a image series of 30-band map in a given time interval

An example script can be found at the Github link. If you are on the AWS server Virgo, it is under /common/data/eovsa_tutorial/imaging_timeseries_example.py. Caution: This script is very compute-intensive. Please do not run this script on the AWS server Virgo , as it is a very limited resource that everyone must share.

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Spectral Fitting with GSFIT

GSFIT GUI Application

The GSFIT GUI application may be launched as follows

IDL> gsfit [,nthreads]

where nthreads is an optional argument that indicates the number of parallel asynchronous threads to be used when performing the fit tasks. By default, GSFIT launches with only one thread, but the user may interactively add or delete threads as needed at the run-time up to the number of CPUs available on the system (Note, if you are working on the AWS server, please use only one thread). After some delay while the interface loads, the GUI below should appear.

A detailed description of the GSFIT functionality is provided in the page linked below.

GSFIT Help

GSFITCP Batch Mode Application

GSFITCP is the command prompt counterpart of the GSFIT GUI microwave spectral fitting application. Once started, GSFITCP is designed to run in unattended mode until all fitting tasks assigned to it are completed and log on the disk in an user-defined *.log file, the content of which may be visualized using the GSFITVIEW GUI application. When run remotely on an Linux/Mac platform, the GSFITCP may be launched on a detached screen, which allows the remote user to logout without stopping the process in which GSFITCP runs.

GSFITCP is launched using the following call:

IDL> gsfitcp, taskfile, nthreads, /start

where taskfile is a path to a file in which a GSFIT task has been previously saved, as explained in the GSFIT Help page, nthreads is an optional argument indicating the number of parallel asynchronous threads to be used, and the optional keyword /start, if set, requests immediate start of the batch processing.

A detailed description of the GSFITCP functionality is provided in the page linked below.

GSFITCP Help

GSFITVIEW GUI Application

The GSFITVIEW GUI application may be launched as follows

IDL> gsfitview [,gsfitmaps]

where the optional gsfitmaps argument is either the filename of an IDL *.sav file containg a GSFIT Parameter Map Cube structure produced by the GSFIT or GSFITCP applications, or an already restored such structure.


A detailed description of the GSFITVIEW functionality is provided in the page linked below.

GSFITVIEW Help

GSFIT Data Format