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Automated Classification of MESSENGER Plasma Observations via Unsupervised Transfer Learning
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  • Vicki L Toy-Edens,
  • Wenli Mo,
  • Robert Colby Allen,
  • Sarah Kimberly Vines,
  • Savvas Raptis
Vicki L Toy-Edens
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory

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Wenli Mo
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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Robert Colby Allen
Southwest Research Institute
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Sarah Kimberly Vines
Southwest Research Institute
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Savvas Raptis
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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Abstract

We applied an unsupervised clustering algorithm, initially trained on data from Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission at Earth, to MESSENGER observations at Mercury to identify three distinct plasma regions: magnetosphere, magnetosheath, and solar wind. This demonstrates the applicability of transfer learning for heliophysics, a machine learning technique where knowledge learned from one task is reused to perform a similar task, for an unsupervised learning task. We find that 72% of bow shock crossings and 84% of magnetopause crossings identified by the clustering algorithm using MESSENGER data are in agreement with published magnetopause and bow shock lists. These findings highlight the potential for utilizing a clustering algorithm across multiple planetary environments.
30 Oct 2024Submitted to ESS Open Archive
01 Nov 2024Published in ESS Open Archive