solar-dynamics-observatory

A Python library to download and analyze data from the NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO).

This library uses the Sunpy package to download the images and the aiapy package to align and prepare the images to be ready for scientific analysis.

While this package uses Sunpy to download the data, it does not represent SDO images as instances of sunpy.map.Map, it represents images using named_arrays.FunctionArray.

Installation

This package is published on PyPI and can be installed using pip

pip install solar-dynamics-observatory

Citation

If you use solar-dynamics-observatory in your research, please cite it. The citation metadata is kept in CITATION.cff, which the "Cite this repository" button on GitHub can export as BibTeX or APA.

Every release of solar-dynamics-observatory is archived on Zenodo with its own DOI. The concept DOI, 10.5281/zenodo.23093186, always resolves to the latest version, and the Zenodo page lists the DOI of every version. Please include the version of solar-dynamics-observatory that you used, which is given by importlib.metadata.version("solar-dynamics-observatory"). The BibTeX entry below uses the concept DOI. To cite a specific version instead, replace doi with the DOI of that version.

@software{solar-dynamics-observatory,
  author = {Smart, Roy T. and Parker, Jacob D.},
  title = {solar-dynamics-observatory},
  version = {X.Y.Z},
  doi = {10.5281/zenodo.23093186},
  url = {https://github.com/sun-data/solar-dynamics-observatory},
}