solarbextrapolation.extrapolators.PotentialExtrapolator(map_magnetogram, **kwargs)[source]¶Bases: solarbextrapolation.extrapolators.Extrapolators
This is a greens function for extrapolating the potential (scalar) field above a given magnetogram. Equations are from the following book:
See chapter 5 on potential fields. Which references to the paper Takashi Sakurai 1982: http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1982SoPh…76..301S