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Real-time solar coronal modelling

Physics-informed neural networks allow the construction of state-of-the-art models of magnetic fields in active regions on the Sun in real time, enabling rapid investigation of the source regions for space weather.

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Fig. 1: Comparison between model and observations of the solar active region AR 11158.

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