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Description
The recently expanded fleet of heliospheric spacecraft presents unique opportunities for exploring solar eruptive phenomena such as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) and solar energetic particles (SEPs) from multiple vantage points. However, the task of integrating diverse observations collected by different instruments across various spacecraft poses a notable challenge. To maximize the utilization of this data within the broader scientific community, the EU Horizon Europe project SOLER (Energetic Solar Eruptions: Data and Analysis Tools) offers a versatile array of tools. These tools, provided as open-source Python Jupyter Notebooks, cater to scientists with limited programming expertise. The offered functionalities start from automatic downloading & visualizing SEP intensity-time profiles and various other in-situ measurements by the whole heliospheric spacecraft fleet. Further analysis tools allow to determine SEP event energy spectra as well as SEP Pitch-Angle Distributions (PADs) and first-order anisotropies, including methods for background subtraction. A final set of tools is dedicated to the analysis of SEP onset times, offering a regression method and a hybrid Poisson-CUSUM-bootstrapping approach. Here we provide an overview of the available toolkit and instructions on its utilization, which can be seamlessly accessed on the project’s dedicated JupyterHub server in the cloud.
SOLER has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No 101134999. The tools reflect only the authors’ view, and the European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
