HEK F/E flares and other events that are co-spatial

[Jack Ireland]

The Flare detective algorithm works on multiple AIA wavelengths and often reports flares in multiple wavelengths in closely overlapping times and locations. Human detectors will often do the same; for example

http://hek.delphi.nascom.nasa.gov/?date=2012-05-12T02:47:27.500Z&imageScale=4.8408818&centerX=28.228406536198733&centerY=108.43574957735017&imageLayers=%5BSDO,AIA,AIA,193,1,100%5D,%5BSDO,AIA,AIA,171,1,54%5D&eventLayers=%5BCE,all,1%5D,%5BER,all,1%5D,%5BFI,all,1%5D,%5BFA,all,1%5D,%5BFE,all,1%5D,%5BFL,all,1%5D,%5BLP,all,1%5D,%5BSG,all,1%5D&eventLabels=true

This particular example is interesting because the human observer has also detected multiple filament eruptions at what I assume are approximately the same time and place.

So, how can multiple F/Es detected by the same FRM in more or less the same location be shown? This question helps define the criteria. First, there have to be multiple (two or more) F/Es detected by a FRM. Next, they must be in approximately the same location. Approximate could be taken to mean "so close spatially that you can't click on any individual one at a reasonable zoom level". This will have to be defined. Instead of putting multiple indistingishable F/E markers on screen, these could be repalced by a single F/E marker with a small number appended to it indicating the number of F/Es at this location. The number would appear in a small red circle on the (top right of? top left?) F/E marker. The F/E label would have to change to something generic to the F/E class, not to any particular F/E - perhaps just the F/E name itself, or its plural. On clicking on it, the relevant number of F/E pop-up windows would appear. Each F/E pop-up would have to have something to distinguish it from the others.

In the case of the Flare Detective, the obs_channelid is sufficient, so the title for the pop-up window would be something like "FL (131) 870 erg/cm/cm/s".

In the case of the Filament Eruption, the example in this link

http://hek.delphi.nascom.nasa.gov/?date=2012-05-10T02:47:27.500Z&imageScale=1.2102204&centerX=-121.54641467160646&centerY=-124.93510935089722&imageLayers=%5BSDO,AIA,AIA,193,1,100%5D,%5BSDO,AIA,AIA,171,1,54%5D&eventLayers=%5BAR,SPoCA,1%5D,%5BCE,all,1%5D,%5BEF,all,1%5D,%5BER,all,1%5D,%5BFI,all,1%5D,%5BFA,all,1%5D,%5BFE,all,1%5D,%5BFL,all,1%5D,%5BLP,all,1%5D,%5BSG,all,1%5D&eventLabels=true

shows five Filament Eruption events. Closer inspection shows that 4 of the 5 are events are seen in individual SDO image wavebands, and the 5th is a meta-event that apparently collects the 4 events together. For this one, frm_identifier = 'MetaEventCreator'. Perhaps when frm_identifier is equal to
'MetaEventCreator' and the frm_humanflag is True, we should only report this meta event.