Volunteers for NASA’s Solar Jet Hunters project have been scanning the Sun’s surface, watching and waiting for bursts of plasma. Now, they are celebrating their first big haul: a catalog of 883 jets of plasma spurting from the Sun, each one bigger than the Earth. The catalog is available for download and described in a new paper published in Astronomy & Astrophysics.
“It is an important milestone, made possible thanks to the many contributions of the Solar Jet Hunters, who identified and annotated the jets in solar observations,” said Dr. Sophie Musset, Solar Jet Hunters PI and Senior Scientist at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.
The new catalog will enable statistical studies of jets and related phenomena and serve as a training set to help machines recognize jets in upcoming data sets. The publication describes the catalog, the project setup, the data analysis by volunteers, and the aggregation of the results. You can find more details about the catalogue and the publication can be found on the Solar Jet Hunter blog.
The Solar Jet Hunter project is temporarily out of data, but it will be back in a few months with more exciting ways you can do NASA solar jet science! Stay tuned!
