STEREO-A Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) 2-hour Iron Plasma Parameters

ResourceID

spase://VSPO/NumericalData/STEREO-A/PLASTIC/Fe-abundance/PT2H

Description

This data product contains 2-hour averaged values of solar wind
iron flow speed, density, thermal speed, iron to proton density ratio,
and quality flags for each of these parameters. It also contains the iron
charge state used in the V and Vth (1D Maxwellian) fitting algorithm

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Details

Version:2.2.9

NumericalData

ResourceID

spase://VSPO/NumericalData/STEREO-A/PLASTIC/Fe-abundance/PT2H

ResourceHeader

ResourceName: STEREO-A Plasma and Suprathermal Ion Composition (PLASTIC) 2-hour Iron Plasma Parameters

ReleaseDate: 2019-08-05 15:03:35Z

Description

Acknowledgement: Please acknowledge STEREO PLASTIC Investigation (A.B. Galvin, PI) and NASA Contract NAS5-00132.

Contacts

	Role	Person
1.	PrincipalInvestigator	spase://SMWG/Person/Antoinette.B.Galvin

InformationURL

Name: PLASTIC Index page at UNH

URL: http://stereo.sr.unh.edu/data/PLASTIC_Resources/index.htm

InformationURL

Name: Readme at STEREO Science Center

URL: https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/data/ins_data/plastic/level2/Iron/READ_ME_PLASTIC_Iron_Abundance_Kinetic.pdf

PriorIDs

spase://VHO/NumericalData/STEREO-A/PLASTIC/Fe-abundance/PT2H

spase://VSPO/NumericalData/STEREO-A/PLASTIC/Fe_charge_state/PT2H

AccessInformation

RepositoryID: spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/STEREO_SC

Availability: Online

AccessRights: Open

AccessURL

Name: STEREO Science Center - ASCII

URL: https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/data/ins_data/plastic/level2/Iron/text/

Description

In ASCII via http from SSC

Format: Text

DataExtent

Quantity: 400

Units: KB

Per: P1Y

AccessInformation

RepositoryID: spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/STEREO_SC

Availability: Online

AccessRights: Open

AccessURL

Name: STEREO Science Center - CDF

URL: https://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/data/ins_data/plastic/level2/Iron/CDFs/A/

Description

In CDF via ftp from SSC

Format: CDF

DataExtent

Quantity: 170

Units: KB

Per: P1Y

AccessInformation

RepositoryID: spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF

Availability: Online

AccessRights: Open

AccessURL

Name: CDAWeb

URL: https://cdaweb.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/eval2.cgi?dataset=STA_L2_PLA_IRON_Q_2HR&index=sp_phys

ProductKey: STA_L2_PLA_IRON_Q_2HR

Description

Subset, plot and list, via CDAWeb

Format: Text

AccessInformation

RepositoryID: spase://SMWG/Repository/NASA/GSFC/SPDF

Availability: Online

AccessRights: Open

AccessURL

Name: FTP access to files at SPDF

URL: ftps://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/stereo/ahead/l2/plastic/iron/2hr/

Description

In CDF via ftp from SPDF

AccessURL

Name: HTTP access to files at SPDF

URL: https://spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/stereo/ahead/l2/plastic/iron/2hr/

Description

In CDF via http from SPDF

Format: CDF

DataExtent

Quantity: 840

Units: KB

Per: P1Y

ProcessingLevel: Calibrated

InstrumentIDs

spase://SMWG/Instrument/STEREO-A/PLASTIC

MeasurementType: ThermalPlasma

TemporalDescription

TimeSpan

StartDate: 2007-01-01 00:00:00

RelativeStopDate: -P1Y

Cadence: PT2H

ObservedRegion: Heliosphere.Remote1AU

Parameter #1

Name: Epoch

ParameterKey: epoch

Description

Beginning of time interval

Units: ms

Support

SupportQuantity: Temporal

Parameter #2

Name: PB5 Time

ParameterKey: time_pb5

Description

Time of observation in Year, Day, and millisecond

Support

SupportQuantity: Temporal

Parameter #3

Name: Average Charge State Iron

ParameterKey: Fe_aveQ

Description

Average charge state for iron. Charge state 1 is singly ionized ion. Typical uncertainty is half a charge unit.

ValidMin: 26.0

ValidMax: 0.5

FillValue: -1e31

Particle

ParticleType: Ion

ParticleQuantity: ChargeState

Parameter #4

Name: Normalized Counts

ParameterKey: Qty

Description

Normalized counts used in the charge state calculation process. Provided as a measure of counting statistics

ValidMin: 0

ValidMax: 7000000

FillValue: -1e31

Support

SupportQuantity: Other

Parameter #5

Name: Fe charge state histogram

ParameterKey: Fe_Q

Description

Fe charge state histograms. Example: bin 10 includes all calculated charge states 10.0 less than or equal to Q and less than 11.0. Avg Q may be calculated by combining the counts at each bin with the bin value of bin +0.5

ValidMin: 0

ValidMax: 7000000

FillValue: -1e31

Support

SupportQuantity: Other