WIND Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Faraday cup data: this data set contains three-dimensional measurements of ions in the energy range 150 eV to 8 keV. Placed 15° above and below equatorial plane of the spacecraft, the Faraday Cups measure ion charge flux as a function of epoch, cup number, orientation angle, and bias grid potential. For each time point, a full spectrum is comprised of charge flux measurements at the two Faraday cup sensors at 20 azimuth angles for each of 31 energy-per-charge windows with 1240 data points per spectrum. Spectra are built up over approximately 92 s intervals. The effective area of the Faraday cup sensor as a function of incidence angle onto the cup is also provided.
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WIND Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Faraday cup data: this data set contains three-dimensional measurements of ions in the energy range 150 eV to 8 keV. Placed 15° above and below equatorial plane of the spacecraft, the Faraday Cups measure ion charge flux as a function of epoch, cup number, orientation angle, and bias grid potential. For each time point, a full spectrum is comprised of charge flux measurements at the two Faraday cup sensors at 20 azimuth angles for each of 31 energy-per-charge windows with 1240 data points per spectrum. Spectra are built up over approximately 92 s intervals. The effective area of the Faraday cup sensor as a function of incidence angle onto the cup is also provided.
| Role | Person | |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | PrincipalInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/Keith.W.Ogilvie |
| 2. | CoInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/Alan.J.Lazarus |
| 3. | DataProducer | spase://SMWG/Person/Justin.C.Kasper |
| 4. | MetadataContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Robert.M.Candey |
| 5. | MetadataContact | spase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze |
Wind overview web page with news updates and information about new data product releases, hosted by NASA GSFC
Wind spacecraft general instrument web page with links to data, documentation, and home pages for all instruments, hosted by NASA GSFC
Wind spacecraft general instrument web page with brief descriptions for data sources from all instruments, hosted by NASA GSFC
Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Instruments, History, and Data Products web page, hosted by NASA GSFC
General information concerning the Wind, Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, instrument
Wind Magnetic Field Instrument, MFI, and Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Key Parameter data access and plotting web page with selectable overplotting of DSCOVR data and links to CDF data directories, hosted by NASA GSFC
Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, web page hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Space Plasma group. Since the Summer of 2015, the responsibility for Wind plasma data has been assumed by the Harvard Smithsonian Astrophysics Lab.
Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Instrument description web page hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Space Plasma group
Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE: reduced charge flux distributions data release notes, version: 1.0. format: CDF 3.4.0. release Date: June 10, 2012
Ogilvie, K.W., D.J. Chornay, R.J. Fritzenreiter, F. Hunsaker, J. Keller, J. Lobell, G. Miller, J.D. Scudder, E.C. Sittler, Jr., R.B. Torbert, D. Bodet, G. Needell, A.J. Lazarus, J.T. Steinberg, J.H. Tappan, A. Mavretic, and E. Gergin, SWE, a comprehensive plasma instrument for the Wind spacecraft, Space Sci. Rev., 71, 55-77, 1995, DOI: 10.1007/BF00751326
Wind Solar Wind Experiment, SWE, Key Parameter Readme file, hosted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
Access to Data in CDF Format via ftp from SPDF
Access to Data in CDF Format via http from SPDF
Access to ASCII, CDF, and Plots via NASA/GSFC CDAWeb
Epoch Time Tags, default time at the beginning of the spectrum
Faraday Cup 1, Azimuth Angle of the vector normal to the cup collection surface
Faraday Cup 2, Azimuth Angle of the vector normal to the cup collection surface
Faraday Cup 1, Bias Potential, equal to the energy per charge of admitted ions
Faraday Cup 2, Bias Potential, equal to the energy per charge of admitted ions
Faraday Cup 1, Half Range of the Bias Potential
Faraday Cup 2, Half Range of the Bias Potential
Faraday Cup 1, Current, the total charge flux incident on the collector of cup 1, energy per charge, E/Q, azimuth display
Faraday Cup 2, Current, the total charge flux incident on the collector of cup 2, energy per charge, E/Q, azimuth display
SWE Instrument Mode Indicator, Tracking Flag, a boolean quantity signifying whether the instrument is in peak-tracking mode
SWE Instrument Mode Indicator, Full Scan Flag, a boolean quantity signifying whether the instrument is in full-scan mode
Incidence Angle for effective area calibration
Faraday Cup, Inclination Angles
Faraday Cup, Calibration Effective Area