NSSDCA ID: SPMS-00100
Availability: At NSSDC, Ready for Electronic Access
Time span: 1981-08-15 to 1983-02-16
These four CD disks contain half-second resolution magnetic and electric field vectors from the MAG-B and VEFI experiments on the Dynamics Explorer 2 (DE-2) spacecraft. The data span the DE-2 period of operations from August 15, 1981 to February 16, 1983. The data are in ASCII form. An (IBM/PC-) binary version is available as a separate data set (81-070B-01E/-02H) on two CD disks. MS-DOS compatible software is available for accessing and plotting the binary version data. Both versions contain ASCII files of IMP-8, ISEE-1,2 and 3 data, OMNI database, and AE indices for the DE-2 period. The data set contains the three components of the magnetic field (Bx, By, and Bz in spacecraft coordinates) and two components of the electric field (Ex and Ey; Ez was not measured due to a boom deployment failure) and the following orbit information: model magnetic field, altitude, latitude, longitude, magnetic local time and invariant lati- tude. To convert the vector components from spacecraft coordinates to topo- graphic coordinates, transformation matrices are provided on the forth CD disk. The MAG-B and VEFI experiments and data sets are further described in the *.SFD files which are included on the disks. These averaged data sets were generated by the PI-teams from the original 1/16-second VEFI and MAG-B merged data base, which is also archived at NSSDC on 8mm tapes (81-070B-01D/-02G).
Questions and comments about this data collection can be directed to: Mr. Robert M. Candey
Name | Role | Original Affiliation | |
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Dr. James A. Slavin | Data Provider | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | slavin@lepjas.gsfc.nasa.gov |
Dr. Thomas L. Aggson | Data Provider | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | |
Dr. Natalia E. Papitashvili | Programmer | NASA Goddard Space Flight Center | Natasha.Papitashvili@gsfc.nasa.gov |