Turning Noise Into Data: Characterization of the Van Allen Radiation Belt Using SDO Spikes Data

Abstract

Sometimes the proverb "one man's trash is another man's treasure" is also apt in science, as that which is considered noise in one scientific enquiry might be found to be insightful data in another. This has lately been observed in the field of heliophysics.Early after its launch, the Solar Terrestrial Relations Observatory mission team observed that an unusually high number of spacecraft-related "debris" were being detected by its coronographic instruments (SECCHI suite