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Daily logs of master thesis

Issues Start date Close date
Cube and Image tests 13/02 17/02
Model magnetopause construction 20/02
Correlation of Intensity to tangent direction 04/03
Arc detection 11/03 05/05
Hough Tranform 14/03 27/03
Tangent points to SXI in GSE 17/03 25/03
Coordinate transformation from GSE to SXI 19/03 26/03
Numerical Solution & Performance 27/03
Benchmarking 31/03

To-do

Plan:

  1. Benchmark shue model - shue simulated data
  2. Construction of new empirical model
  3. Verify tangent direction hypothesis
    1. if not -> verify second maximum
  4. Benchmarking with maximum intensity

mail:

In your plot, should the top right say phi = 0, instead of theta = 0? Theta = 0 is not a plane but the x-axis.

I think because your cusps are curved, you might have to define the edges in a smarter way. I wonder if one of the following could work?

  1. Instead of just recording the first radial distance for each direction where the emissivity stops being zero, maybe record the second and third too? In some directions, it will go magnetosphere, cusp, magnetosphere, magnetopause.
  2. Can you work out where the maximum emissivity is, and use this to define the centre of the cusps? Maybe you can work out the edges of the cusp from there?

Not sure if these will work, but those straight lines are because your cusp is curving forwards.

Thanks,

Sam