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Understanding the Ly{\alpha} Emission Observed by the Solar Disk Imager Aboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory

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Pith's one-line read The Solar Disk Imager's broad Lyα passband admits Si III emission that reaches 14.6% of the Lyα intensity in X-class flares, and the paper provides an SXR-based formula and a 0.914 response correction to remove it.

desk verdict Useful calibration paper for SDI Lyα data: the Si III contamination ratios are measured directly from SOLSTICE/SUMER and hold up, but the δ=0.914 SRF conversion is an unvalidated scaling that should be flagged as approximate. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.16218 v1 pith:INTD4I3C submitted 2025-05-22 astro-ph.SR

Yiliang Li , Ping Zhang , Zhengyuan Tian , Li Feng , Guanglu Shi , Jianchao Xue , Ying Li , Jun Tian
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Kaifan Ji Beili Ying Lei Lu Shuting Li Jiahui Shan Hui Li Weiqun Gan
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The reading

This paper establishes that the Solar Disk Imager (SDI) aboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory (ASO-S), although built as a full-disk Lyα imager, has a spectral passband wide enough to admit the Si III line at 1206 Å, with a Gaussian-fitted response width of about 85 Å. Using SOLSTICE II flare spectra and SUMER quiet-Sun and prominence spectra, the authors find that the integrated intensity ratio $I(\mathrm{Si\,III})/I(\mathrm{Ly\alpha})$ runs from 1.7% for an M1.0 flare to 14.6% for the X17.2 flare and grows almost linearly with soft X-ray flux, following $y = 55.6x + 0.0175$; for prominences, the inner disk, and the limb the ratio is about 0.5%, 0.7–0.9%, and 1.4–1.9%, respectively. Since the SDI response at 1206 Å is 0.914 times that at 1216 Å, the paper supplies a scaling factor $\delta=0.914$ to convert these spectral ratios into true contamination fractions in SDI images, lowering the X-class correction to 13.3% and leaving M-class corrections below 0.2%. If these numbers hold, SDI data can be corrected to yield clean full-disk Lyα intensities for flare studies, which matters because SDI is the first instrument to image the whole Sun in Lyα on a regular basis.

What carries the argument

The load-bearing object is the SDI spectral response function (SRF), a prelaunch measurement of relative transmission versus wavelength sampled every 10 Å, whose Gaussian fit gives a full width at half maximum of about 85 Å. This broad SRF is what lets Si III at 1206 Å leak into the Lyα channel at 91.4% of the Lyα response, and the paper treats that ratio (0.914) as a constant weight $\delta$ that turns measured spectral intensity ratios into contamination fractions in SDI images. The intensity ratios themselves are anchored to two external spectral datasets (SOLSTICE II for flares, SUMER for quiet Sun and prominences) and to the empirical flare relation $y = 55.6x + 0.0175$ against soft X-ray flux.

What would settle it

A decisive test is to observe the same M- or X-class flare simultaneously with SDI and a high-resolution UV spectrograph that cleanly separates Si III from Lyα, convolve the measured spectrum with the SDI spectral response, and compare the predicted Si III fraction with $y = 55.6x + 0.0175$; agreement within the stated uncertainty would support the correction, and disagreement would falsify it. A simpler observable is the SDI–EUI intensity difference during a large flare: if the excess SDI signal attributed to Si III does not scale with soft X-ray flux, the $\delta=0.914$ model is wrong.

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Extended reading notes

Core claim

The central discovery is that the SDI Lyα passband is not Lyα-only: Gaussian fitting of its spectral response function gives a full width at half maximum of about 85 Å, so the Si III 1206 Å line falls well inside the band at 91.4% of the Lyα response. Using SOLSTICE II full-disk spectra of six M- and X-class flares, the paper finds $I(\mathrm{Si\,III})/I(\mathrm{Ly\alpha})$ between 1.7% (M1.0) and 14.6% (X17.2), with the ratio increasing essentially linearly with soft X-ray flux, $y = 55.6x + 0.0175$. From SUMER raster observations, the ratio is about 0.5% for a prominence, 0.7–0.9% in the inner disk, and 1.4–1.9% near the limb, reflecting the center-to-limb behavior of the two lines. The authors therefore conclude that Si III is negligible for quiet Sun and prominences but must be corrected in large flares, and they supply the weighting factor $\delta = 0.914$ to do so. They also show SDI Lyα images agree well with SolO/EUI (Spearman correlation 0.86) and correlate most strongly with AIA 304 Å in active regions (about 0.85), supporting a common formation height for Lyα and He II 304 Å.

Load-bearing premise

The correction relies on the prelaunch 10 Å-sampled SDI spectral response being flat across each 10 Å window and identical in flight; if the true inflight response at 1206 Å or 1216 Å differs from 0.914, all corrected Si III fractions in SDI images shift proportionally.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

  • For X-class flares, SDI Lyα images contain a Si III contribution of order 13.3–14.6% that should be subtracted using $\delta=0.914$; ignoring it overstates flare Lyα brightness.
  • For M-class flares the correction is below 0.2%, so SDI flare observations at M-class and below can be treated as essentially pure Lyα.
  • The empirical relation $y = 55.6x + 0.0175$ lets future flares be corrected using only their soft X-ray flux, with no need for contemporaneous UV spectra.
  • SDI Lyα images can be compared directly with SolO/EUI Lyα images (correlation 0.86 in a quiet region) once SRF differences are accounted for, supporting coordinated full-disk and high-resolution Lyα studies.
  • The strong 304 Å–Lyα correlation in active regions (about 0.85) and weaker correlation in quiet Sun and prominences (about 0.55) indicates Lyα and He II 304 Å form at similar heights, so joint 304 Å/Lyα observations can track transition-region structuring.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The same contamination logic should apply to any broad-band Lyα imager whose spectral response extends to 1206 Å; cross-calibrating SDI with EUI during flares could reveal whether EUI's narrower response also needs a Si III correction.
  • Because Si III brightens by roughly a factor of 17 in the impulsive phase while the Lyα core changes little, the SXR-based formula may underpredict contamination during the impulsive phase of large flares even when it works near SXR peak; a high-cadence spectral check would settle this.
  • The nonlinearity seen in the SDI–EUI intensity scatter at high count rates may partly reflect Si III contamination rather than intrinsic Lyα emission; if so, subtracting the modeled Si III contribution should linearize the SDI–EUI relation at high intensities.
  • The method could be extended to search for other transition-region lines inside the 85 Å SDI passband, not just Si III, to give a fuller contamination budget for Lyα full-disk imaging.
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Referee Report

4 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper characterizes the contribution of Si III 1206 Å emission to the Lyα passband of ASO-S/SDI. Using SOLSTICE flare spectra and SUMER quiet-Sun/prominence spectra, it reports I(Si III)/I(Lyα) ratios from 1.7%–14.6% for M–X flares, an empirical linear relation with SXR flux (y = 55.6x + 0.0175), and values below about 2% for quiet Sun and prominences. It then scales these ratios by δ = 0.914, the ratio of the prelaunch SDI SRF at 1206 Å and 1216 Å, to estimate the Si III contamination inside the SDI passband. The paper also compares SDI Lyα images with EUI, AIA 304/1600/1700 Å, and CHASE Hα images, finding the highest correlations between Lyα and 304 Å in active regions.

Significance. If the calibration assumptions hold, the paper provides useful quantitative guidance for users of SDI Lyα images: Si III contamination is negligible for quiet Sun, prominences, and M-class flares, but reaches roughly 13–15% for extreme X-class flares. The measured ratios are direct and independent of the SDI SRF, and the center-to-limb trend from SUMER is physically sensible. The empirical SXR-flux relation is a practical forecasting tool, though it needs uncertainty quantification. The SDI/EUI cross-instrument comparison adds confidence in SDI data quality. The main weakness is that the SDI-passband correction depends on a single prelaunch SRF measurement with 10 Å sampling and no inflight verification; the qualitative conclusions are robust, but the precise corrected fractions are not.

major comments (4)
  1. [§4.1, SRF correction] The conversion of the directly measured ratio I(Si III)/I(Lyα) into a Si III contamination fraction inside the SDI passband depends entirely on δ = SRF(1206)/SRF(1216) = 0.914, computed from the prelaunch flight-model SRF sampled at 10 Å, with the SRF assumed constant across each 10 Å window. This assumption is load-bearing: for the X17.2 flare the corrected contamination is 13.3%, and any error in δ scales the corrected fraction linearly. The manuscript gives no uncertainty for δ, no sensitivity analysis, and no inflight verification of the SRF; because the 10 Å sampling is comparable to the line separation and the line widths, it can plausibly miss structure that biases the ratio. Please provide a bounded estimate of δ (e.g., from repeat prelaunch measurements, inflight data, or a conservative envelope), or explicitly present the corrected percentages as provisional and give the uncorrected ratios as the primary measurements.
  2. [§4.1, Figure 5] The empirical relation is labeled 'proportional' in the abstract and Conclusions, but the fitted function has a non-zero intercept of 0.0175, which is larger than the measured ratio for the M1.0 flare (1.7%). The intercept is therefore not negligible, and the slope alone does not describe the contamination for small flares. The regression is based on six flares with pre-, peak-, and post-flare samples that are not independent, and no uncertainties are given for the slope, intercept, or correlation coefficient. Please report the full fit parameters with uncertainties, state the number of independent flares, and avoid the term 'proportional' unless the intercept is shown to be statistically indistinguishable from zero.
  3. [§4.2, Figure 6 and §6] The conclusion that the Si III/Lyα ratio 'never exceed[s] 2%' for quiet Sun and prominences is not supported by the presented analysis, which reports only histogram peak positions (0.5%–1.9%) and gives no distribution tails, pixel counts, or uncertainties. A peak at 1.9% does not exclude individual values above 2%, and the EIT/SUMER timing mismatch noted in the Figure 6 caption could add a systematic offset. Please report the full distribution statistics (e.g., 95th percentile), the number of spatial samples, and an uncertainty estimate for each region.
  4. [§5, Tables 3–5] The abstract's central comparison—'about 85%' correlation in active regions versus 'about 55%' in quiet region—is presented without uncertainties or significance levels. Because image pixels are spatially correlated, the effective number of independent samples is far smaller than the pixel count, so statements such as 'highly significant' (AR1) and 'none of the correlations are statistically significant' (PR) need support. Please provide bootstrap confidence intervals or the effective degrees of freedom for the Spearman coefficients.
minor comments (5)
  1. [§3, Figure 3] The text states that the nonlinear terms of the polynomial fits are 'several orders of magnitude smaller' than the linear terms, but evaluating the quadratic and cubic fits at the upper end of the data (e.g., x ≈ 1000–1400 DN) gives nonlinear contributions comparable to the linear term; this sentence should be revised or quantified.
  2. [Figure 6 caption] The admitted non-simultaneity of the EIT and SUMER observations should be discussed in the text as a potential systematic, rather than only in the caption.
  3. [§4.1, paragraph on Lyα core constancy] The phrase 'consisting with' should be 'consistent with' when referring to the agreement with Greatorex, Milligan, and Chamberlin (2023).
  4. [§6, paragraph on instrumental discrepancies] The sentence 'The relative fluxes would be minimally impacted by the discrepancies between observations from different instruments (Greatorex, Milligan, and Dammasch, 2024)' is made without quantification; either cite the specific result or soften the claim.
  5. [Title page] The author list contains typographical spacing artifacts ('Li F eng', 'W eiqun Gan') that should be corrected in the final version.

Circularity Check

0 steps flagged · score 1.0 of 10

No significant circularity: the key spectral ratios are measured externally, and the SDI SRF factor is a calibration correction rather than a self-derived prediction.

full rationale

The central quantitative claims—I(Si III)/I(Lyα) of 1.7%–14.6% for flares and below 2% for quiet Sun and prominences—are obtained by integrating SOLSTICE and SUMER spectra, not by fitting or inverting the SDI images that the paper interprets. The flare relation y = 55.6x + 0.0175 is an empirical regression used for interpolation and forecasting, and it is not the source of the measured ratios; the ratios themselves come from independent spectral data. The only step involving SDI quantities is the correction in Section 4.1, where the measured intensity ratio is multiplied by δ = 0.914, the ratio of the prelaunch SDI spectral response at 1206 Å and 1216 Å, to estimate in-band Si III contamination. This is a calibration correction, not a derivation of the ratio from itself. Similarly, the stated FWHM of about 85 Å is obtained by Gaussian fitting of the measured SRF, and the conclusion that Si III contributes to the passband follows from that measurement. Self-citations such as Chen et al. (2024) and Xue et al. (2024) provide calibration data and event identifications; they are not load-bearing uniqueness theorems or unverified premises that force the conclusions. The paper explicitly discloses the simplified treatment in which the SRF is held constant across each 10 Å window, and this is a calibration-accuracy caveat rather than a circular step. No equation in the derivation is defined in terms of the quantity it is meant to establish, and no fitted parameter is renamed as an independent prediction. The score of 1, rather than 0, reflects a minor caveat: the empirical 'prediction' wording and the unverified prelaunch SRF represent uncertainty concerns, not circularity.

Assumptions & free parameters 3 free parameters · 3 assumptions · 0 invented entities

The central claims rest on two fitted regression parameters, a Gaussian FWHM estimate, and several reasonable but unverified assumptions about instrument response and cross-instrument transferability. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (3)
  • slope of I(Si iii)/I(Lyα) versus SXR flux = 55.6 (units not specified in paper)
    Linear regression fitted to flare data from 2003-2012; used as an empirical predictor for future flares.
  • intercept of I(Si iii)/I(Lyα) versus SXR flux = 0.0175
    Same regression; the non-zero intercept makes the 'proportional' claim inaccurate.
  • Gaussian FWHM of SDI spectral response function = approximately 85 Å
    Gaussian fit to the measured prelaunch SRF; used as evidence that the passband includes the Si III line.
assumptions (3)
  • domain assumption Si III is the dominant contaminating line within the SDI passband and other lines are negligible.
    The paper identifies the broad FWHM and then analyzes only Si III; no spectral synthesis of other possible contaminating lines is provided.
  • domain assumption The prelaunch SDI SRF measured at 10 Å sampling is representative of the inflight response.
    All correction factors rely on the SRF curve shown in Figure 1b.
  • domain assumption SOLSTICE full-disk irradiance ratios and SUMER small-FOV ratios are transferable to SDI images of the same features.
    The correction is applied to SDI imaging data even though the ratios were measured by other instruments with different spatial and spectral resolution.

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  title        = {Pith review of: Understanding the Ly\alpha Emission Observed by the Solar Disk Imager Aboard the Advanced Space-based Solar Observatory},
  year         = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://pith.science/paper/INTD4I3C}},
  note         = {Machine review of arXiv:2505.16218}
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abstract

The H I Lyman-alpha (Ly$\alpha$) emission, with a wavelength of 1216 \r{A}, is the brightest solar ultraviolet (UV) line. However, comprehensive observations of the Ly$\alpha$ emission line across the full solar disk remain limited. As part of the ASO-S mission, the Solar Disk Imager (SDI) has successfully captured full-disk images in the Ly$\alpha$ band. Gaussian fitting of SDI's spectral response function (SRF) yields a full width at half maximum (FWHM) of approximately 85 \r{A}, which is significantly broader than the distance of Si III line at 1206 \r{A} and the Ly$\alpha$ line. Thus, the emission contribution of Si III to the SDI Ly$\alpha$ passband needs to be considered. For flares, in practice, we calculated the integrated intensity ratio $I$(Si III)/$I$(Ly$\alpha$) by analyzing spectral observations from the SOLSTICE instrument. It yields values between 1.7% and 14.6%. Empirically, the ratio is proportional to the SXR flux. Further analysis of spectral data from the SUMER instrument reveals that the ratio $I$(Si III)/$I$(Ly$\alpha$) is approximately 0.5% for prominences, 0.7%--0.9% for the inner disk, and 1.4%--1.9% close to the limb. These findings suggest that $I$(Si III)/$I$(Ly$\alpha$) is minimal for prominences and the inner disk, and the varying ratios across regions align with the center-to-limb variation of the Si III and Ly$\alpha$ lines. Additionally, we compared Ly$\alpha$ image intensity with 304 \r{A}, 1600 \r{A}, and 1700 \r{A} observations from AIA, as well as H$\alpha$ from CHASE, in multiple regions (a prominence region, two active regions, and a quiet region). A relatively higher correlation of about 85% is found between Ly$\alpha$ and 304 \r{A} in active regions, whereas in the quiet region and prominence, their correlation coefficients are about 55%.

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Figure 1
Figure 1. (a) The full-disk Lyα image observed by LST/SDI on 26 October 2022, at 16:41:29 UTC. The red dashed boxes indicate the regions used for multi-band image comparison: Box 1: prominence region (PR); Box 2: active region with a filament (AR1); Box 3: active region with two filaments (AR2); Box 4: quiet region (QR). The specific information can be found in [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_1.png] view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Images of a relatively quiet region on the solar disk observed in the Lyα passband on 28 March 2023, at 21:00 UTC. From left to right: the image captured by the SDI instrument, the image captured by the EUI instrument, and the contour overlay of both observations, with the blue contour representing SDI and the yellow one representing EUI. 400 600 800 1000 1200 1400 1600 1800 SDI Ly Intensity (DN) 100 200 300 400 500… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. The scatter plot about the image intensity from the two instruments: SDI and EUI. The horizontal and normal axis is the count of the Lyα emission observed by the SDI and EUI, respectively. The red, green, and blue solid lines separately represent the linear, quadratic and cubic fitting curves about the data points. the intensity in the Lyα passband, in digital numbers (DN), observed by SDI, while the vertical axis s… view at source ↗
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Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: Spectral profiles around the wavelength 1216 Å at different M-level or X-level duration. In the upper left corner of each panel, there are the dates of event occurrence and flare class. And in the right, Si iii/Lyα represents the ratio of the integrated intensity from …
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: The scatter plot of the integrated intensity ratio I(Si iii)/I(Lyα) is function of the flare SXR flux during 2003–2012. The solid circles in blue, red, and green represent X, M, and C-class flares, respectively. The samples are not only at peak time but also before and…
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: (a)–(d): The FOVs of SUMER scanning at disk outlined by orange rectangles and squares. The panel a indicates the FOV of the prominence. The panel b and c show the FOVs of the solar limb scanned by SUMER on 16 June and 17 June 2009. The squares of panel d separately ind…
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: The examples of integrated spectral profiles observed by SUMER. The targets in all panels are quiescent state. The red and blue curve indicate Si iii and Lyα spectral windows in each panel, respectively. SOLA: main.tex; 23 May 2025; 0:26; p. 8 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures…
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: The variation of Lyα emission is function of distance from the disk center observed by SDI on 27 October 2022. The blue solid curve indicates the variation of intensity. The red dash-dotted line shows the location of solar limb. et al. (2010), were derived from the pro…
Figure 9
Figure 9. Figure 9: Multi-wavelength images of the four selected regions (PR, AR1, AR2, QR). The four columns correspond to these regions from left to right, while the five rows represent different channels: CHASE Hα, AIA 304 Å, SDI Lyα, AIA 1600 Å, and 1700 Å from top to bottom. In the P…
Figure 10
Figure 10. Figure 10: The normalized intensity distribution along Cut0 in the PR images. The red, orange, and blue lines represent the intensity at 304Å, Hα and Lyα passbands, respectively. left panel, middle row of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p012_10.png]
Figure 11
Figure 11. Figure 11: The normalized intensity, along the cuts at AR1. The three columns, from left to right, are corresponding to the Cut1, Cut2 and Cut3. And in each column, the panels are respectively corresponding to the AIA 304 Å, CHASE Hα, SDI Lyα, AIA 1600 Å, and 1700 Å from top to …

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