Cross-Modal Solar Image Synthesis: Adapting the Surya Foundation Model from He I 10830 to EUV Translation and Coronal Hole Segmentation
astro-ph.SR, astro-ph.IM, cs.AI, cs.CV
Submitted: 2026-10-03
Updated: 2026-10-03
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
The gist: The long observational record of He I 10830 Å offers a means to investigate solar morphology before modern extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imaging.
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Abstract
The long observational record of He I 10830 Å offers a means to investigate solar morphology before modern extreme-ultraviolet (EUV) imaging. We adapt the Surya solar foundation model to predict Solar Dynamics Observatory/Atmospheric Imaging Assembly (SDO/AIA) 94, 193, and 304 Å images and a coronal hole (CH) probability map from full-disk helium observations. A convolutional input adapter, low-rank backbone updates, and dedicated output decoders learn from temporally paired, geometrically registered observations, with Spatial Possibilistic Clustering Algorithm (SPOCA) catalog polygons providing CH supervision. On observations held out from downstream fine-tuning, the selected dedicated models achieve disk-restricted correlation coefficients (CCs) of 0.8196, 0.8885, and 0.8398 for the three AIA channels, respectively; the CH model achieves an intersection over union (IoU) of 0.4360. The predictions recover broad solar structure, although local agreement varies substantially by channel. An optional residual refiner addresses spatial detail, and its application on pre-SDO dates improves the correlation of synthetic AIA 304 with Solar and Heliospheric Observatory/Extreme-ultraviolet Imaging Telescope (SOHO/EIT) 304 references from 0.6511 to 0.7085. Together, these results support the feasibility of helium-conditioned EUV morphological proxies and motivate their use in historical reconstruction, within the scope of the downstream test and cross-instrument evaluation.
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- Reconstructing Synthetic SDO/AIA 193 A EUV Images from He I 10830 A Observations with Diffusion Model Translator
- Surya: Foundation Model for Heliophysics
- SuryaBench: Benchmark Dataset for Advancing Machine Learning in Heliophysics and Space Weather Prediction
- Gaussian Error Linear Units (GELUs)
- Attention U-Net: Learning Where to Look for the Pancreas
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