Data-Constrained Solar Modeling with GX Simulator
arXiv:2301.00795 · doi:10.3847/1538-4365/acd343
Abstract
To facilitate the study of solar active regions and flaring loops, we have created a modeling framework, the freely distributed GX Simulator IDL package, that combines 3D magnetic and plasma structures with thermal and non-thermal models of the chromosphere, transition region, and corona. The package has integrated tools to visualize the model data cubes, compute multi-wavelength emission maps from them, and quantitatively compare the resulting maps with observations. Its object-based modular architecture, which runs on Windows, Mac, and Unix/Linux platforms, offers capabilities that include the ability to either import 3D density and temperature distribution models, or to assign numerically defined coronal or chromospheric temperatures and densities, or their distributions to each individual voxel. The application integrates FORTRAN and C++ libraries for fast calculation of radio emission (free-free, gyroresonance, and gyrosynchrotron emission) along with soft and hard X-ray and EUV codes developed in IDL. To facilitate the creation of models, we have developed a fully automatic model production pipeline that downloads the required SDO/HMI vector magnetic field data and (optionally) the contextual SDO/AIA images, performs potential or nonlinear force free field extrapolations, populates the magnetic field skeleton with parameterized heated plasma coronal models that assume either steady-state or impulsive plasma heating, and generates non-LTE density and temperature distribution models of the chromosphere that are constrained by photospheric measurements. The standardized models produced by this pipeline may be further customized through a set of interactive tools provided by the graphical user interface. Here we describe the GX Simulator framework and its applications.
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