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Air Force Research Laboratory Integrity Service Excellence Stuart Huston Boston College For the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M. 10 October 2012 Spectral Inversion

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Air Force Research Laboratory

Integrity Service Excellence

Stuart Huston Boston College

For the Air Force Research Laboratory Space Vehicles Directorate

Kirtland Air Force Base, N.M.

10 October 2012

Spectral Inversion

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Outline

• Why spectral inversion? • How it works • PCA spectral model • Angular response

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Why Spectral Inversion?

• Science-grade instruments can measure directional, differential flux with good spectral and angular resolution

• Most detectors are not science-grade • wide field of view • small numbers of integral energy channels

• Spectral inversion allows us to determine energy spectra from integral-type detectors

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Spectral Inversion: How It Works

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Problem Formulation (1)

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0 0 02

900 0 0

sin ( ; ) ( ; , )

sin ( ; ) ( ; , )

i i

i

C dE d d A E j E

j dE d d A E F E

π π

π π

ϕ θ θ θ θ ϕ

ϕ θ θ θ θ ϕ

=

=

∫ ∫ ∫

∫ ∫ ∫

902

the locally mirroring directional, differential particle flux

(e.g., in particles/cm -s-sr-MeV)( ; , ) angle- and energy-dependent particle angular distribution function

( ; ) the angle- ai

j

F EA Eθ ϕ

θ

=

==

th 2

nd energy-dependent effective area

for the i channel of the detector (e.g., in cm ), polar and azimuthal look directions in coordinates, polar and azimuthal look directions in

detectormagn

θ φ

θ ϕ

=

= coordinatesetic

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Problem Formulation (2)

• Recast as:

0( ) ( )y t G E f E dE bλ δ

∞≈ = +∫

a vector of observed counts a vector of expected counts integration time a vector of geometric factors (response functions)

( ) differential flux at energy a vector of background

y

tG

f E Eb

λδ

======

counts

• Solved by parameterizing and determining maximum likelihood value of • analytical (e.g., power-law, Maxwellian, …) • discrete (e.g., PCA)

( ) ( ; )f E f E q=

q

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Proton Analytical Spectral Inversion

CRRESPRO-A

Power law is a reasonable approximation between 10 – 100 MeV

Fit to exponential for E > MeV with fixed

e-folding rate determined from Selesnick, et al. model

( , , ) ( , ) ,nj E b Eθ ϕ θ ϕ −=Power law fit

CRRESPRO-Q

Power law like

Exponential like

From Selesnick, et al., Space Weather, 5, s04003, doi:10.1029/2006SW00275, 2007.

Selesnick model

( )

1 2

0

0

1 2

0

exp( ln ) ; ( )

exp ;

100 MeV345 MeVexp( ln )

exp

break

break break

break

breakbreak

break

q q E E Ej E Ej E E

E

EE

q q EjE E

− ≤ = − >

=

=

−=

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Selesnick PCA Model

• Selesnick model has fluxes at fixed values of M, K, L*

• Fluxes were interpolated to a uniform E grid, then gaps in K and L* were filled in

• Although energies extended as low as ~ 1 MeV, 10 MeV was used as a lower limit for PCA • Below this, not all K/L*

values are filled in, resulting in a bias towards higher fluxes

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10-1

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Energy (MeV)

flux

(#/c

m2 -

s-sr

-MeV

)

Selesnick Model, K=0

L=1.10L=1.15L=1.20L=1.25L=1.30L=1.35L=1.40L=1.50L=1.60L=1.70L=1.80L=1.90L=2.00L=2.20L=2.40

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Energy (MeV)

flux

(#/c

m2 -

s-sr

-MeV

)

Selesnick Model, K=0.3

L=1.10L=1.15L=1.20L=1.25L=1.30L=1.35L=1.40L=1.50L=1.60L=1.70L=1.80L=1.90L=2.00L=2.20L=2.40

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Principal Components

• PCs well-behaved up through #5 (except near 1000 MeV)

• PC#4 and higher contribute very little to variance

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Mea

n Lo

g Fl

ux

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-0.2

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Energy (MeV)

PC#1PC#2PC#3PC#4PC#5

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 1010

-4

10-3

10-2

10-1

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Principal Component

Var

ianc

e

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Inversion Results: Actual Counts vs. Expected Counts

• Comparisons with analytical inversions used 3 PCs • PCA inversion results in similar reconstruction of expected

counts (PCA may be a little better, at least at high count rates)

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Exp

ecte

d C

ount

s

Analytical Inversion

D05D06T05T06T08T09

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ount

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PCA Inversion

D05D06T05T06T08T09

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Flux Spectra – Analytical vs. PCA

• “Typical” spectra from analytical and PCA inversions

• PCA spectral shape is generally very close to analytical, except near Ebreak (in this example the reverse is true)

• Error bars for PCA are not always this bad

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Energy (MeV)

Inve

rted

Isot

ropi

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ux (#

/cm2 -

s-sr

-MeV

30-Jan-2005 04:00:40

PCA Analytical

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Angular Correction

• Much of our data come from wide-angle or omnidirectional detectors, which sample a fraction of the local omnidirectional flux

• Need a method to estimate j90 from this “semi-omnidirectional” flux • Particle angular distribution • Angular response of detector

• V1.0 used a correction after performing spectral inversion

• For V1.x, we plan to use combined energy/angular inversion as appropriate

“Typical” Pitch Angle Distribution

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Proton Angular Distribution Function

• Pitch angle distribution based on CRRESPRO model

( )( )0

0

0

;1

0;sin (equatorial pitch angle)

sin (equatorial loss cone angle), , , are fitting parameters

a bLC

LCaLC

LC

LC LC

LC

y y yj y y

j yy y

yya b j y

αα

−>

= −

≤=

=

• Azimuthal variation based on Lenchek-Singer, function of • Atmospheric scale height • Gyroradius • Magnetic Inclination

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Requirements

• Instrument response functions as function of energy (and angle) • at least threshold energy & geometric factor

• Prior knowledge of spectral shapes • PCA can provide a rational basis • For angular inversion, also need PAD

• Remember inversion is only valid for range of instrument response

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Implementation

• Spectral inversion routines have been implemented in invlib, a C- and MATLAB-callable library (code & documentation available on SourceForge) • many options for analytical spectral shapes, as well as

PCA • outputs include energy spectra, error bars, expected

counts • Used for TSX5/CEASE, HEO/dos, ICO/dos

• protons used Selesnick PCA model • electrons used PCA model based on CRRES MEA/HEEF

• New PCA models have been developed based on AP9 and AE9

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Questions?