Auroral Spectra

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NORVIS: a portable broadband imaging spectrograph for auroral observations

We present NORVIS (NORdlys Versatile Imaging Spectrograph), a portable broadband imaging spectrograph developed for ground-based auroral observations. Based on the Star'Ex optical …

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Self-Supervised Representation Learning: From Spectral Foundation Models to Auroral Emission Spectra

Auroral spectrographs such as the Auroral Spectrograph In Skibotn (ASIS) record hundreds of thousands of emission spectra, but only a few hundred can be labelled by an expert. To …

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Matthieu Le Lain
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Toward AI-based Classification of Ground-based Auroral Emission Spectra

Co-authored poster (presented by G. Cessateur) extending our supervised spectra classifier to an unsupervised exploration of 328,281 ASIS spectra.

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Reading the Aurora: What Transformer Attention Sees in Auroral Spectra

A 1D Vision Transformer classifies auroral emission spectra, and its attention maps rediscover known emission lines without any physics prior.

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Matthieu Le Lain
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Multi-label Classification of Ground-based Auroral Emission Spectra Using 1D Vision Transformers featured image

Multi-label Classification of Ground-based Auroral Emission Spectra Using 1D Vision Transformers

We examine whether Vision Transformer attention can serve as a built-in interpretability mechanism on ordered 1D scientific signals, where physical ground truth enables direct …

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Matthieu Le Lain
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Multi-label Classification of Ground-based Auroral Emission Spectra Using 1D Vision Transformers featured image

Multi-label Classification of Ground-based Auroral Emission Spectra Using 1D Vision Transformers

Poster on classifying auroral emission spectra with a 1D Vision Transformer, whose attention maps recover known emission lines without spectroscopic priors.

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Matthieu Le Lain
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NORVIS

NORVIS (NORdlys Versatile Imaging Spectrograph) is a portable broadband imaging spectrograph for coordinated auroral observations across a network of high-latitude observatories.