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abstract: 'Solar flares with a broadband emission in the white-light range of the electromagnetic spectrum belong to most enigmatic phenomena on the Sun. The origin of the white-light emission is not entirely understood. We aim to systematically study the visible-light emission connected to solar flares in SDO/HMI observations. We developed a code for automatic detection of kernels of flares with HMI intensity brightenings and study properties of detected candidates. The code was tuned and tested and with a little effort, it could be applied to any suitable data set. By studying a few flare examples, we found indication that HMI intensity brightening might be an artefact of the simplified procedure used to compute HMI observables.'
address:
- 'Astronomical Institute, Charles University in Prague, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, V Holešovičkách 2, CZ-18000 Prague 8, Czech Republic'
- 'Astronomical Institute (v. v. i.), Czech Academy of Sciences, Fričova 298, CZ-25165 Ondřejov, Czech Republic'
author:
- Lucia Mravcová
- Michal Švanda
title: 'Automatic detection of white-light flare kernels in SDO/HMI intensitygrams'
---

Sun: activity,Sun: flares

White-light flares on the Sun
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The Sun is considered a prototype star, where, compared to the other stars, we have a luxury to study it 