Reconstructing Synthetic SDO/AIA 193 A EUV Images from He I 10830 A Observations with Diffusion Model Translator

arXiv:2606.08652v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Routine full-disk EUV imaging has been available only since the modern era, such as SOHO and SDO. To extend EUV coronal context into earlier periods, we leverage the multi-decade availability of full-disk HeI observations, whose absorption is modulated by coronal irradiance and magnetic topology and is widely used as a proxy for open-field regions. We present a diffusion-based conditional image translation framework, Coronal Hole-aware Diffusion Model Translator (CH-aware DMT), to reconstruct synthetic SDO/AIA 193 AA EUV images from HeI inputs. The model is trained on temporally co-aligned SOLIS HeI and AIA 193 AA pairs spanning 2011–2015 using a month-based split, where January–October are used for training, November is used for validation, and December for testing. On the held-out test set, the reconstructions preserve dominant full-disk EUV morphology (CC=0.92) and recover CH-related low-intensity structure (CC=0.84). We further assess historical applicability by (1) comparing reconstructed AIA 193 AA morphology with SOHO/EIT 195 AA over 2005–2015; (2) comparing reconstructed AIA 193 AA images generated from KPVT HeI inputs against Yohkoh/SXT soft X-ray observations; and (3) evaluating long-term reconstructed disk-integrated emission statistics against observational EUV series and independent solar activity proxies (sunspot number and F10.7 radio flux over 1974–2015). These results indicate that CH-aware DMT conditioned on HeI can provide a physically plausible synthetic AIA 193 AA coronal proxy for historical studies, supporting multi-decade analyses of large-scale coronal evolution before the direct EUV imaging was available.