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HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook - Appendices

• Appendix 1 - HISCALE I/O Library
• Introduction
• Building and Installing
• The Utilities
• Subroutines
• Odd Notes
• Appendix 2 - User's Guide to LAN360
• Description of Inputs
• Available Channels
• Anisotropy Calculation
• Magnetic Field
• LEMS and LEFS Differences
• Other Features
• Additional Information
• Appendix 3 - Common Data File:  Rules and User's Guide
• General
• CDF Contents and Products
• Reference Documents
• PI Comments/Explanations and Caveats
• Acronyms
• Ulysses Agreements on Data Rights
• Appendix 4 - SIS Common Data File
• General Description
• Interface Characteristics
• Access
• Detailed Interface Specifications
• CDF Data Record Format Specifications
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 5 - Running the LAN Production
• ARCGEN
• ARCDUMP
• ARCLOG
• ARCSTAT
• ARCSYN
• STATMRG
• SYNCHK
• Appendix 6 - Quality Controlled Averaging
• Appendix 7 - LAN EDR Interface Specification
• Detailed Interface Specifications: Structure and Organization Overview
• Substructure Definition and Format
• EDR Data Block Format Specifications: Data Overview
• EDR Processing
• Lanzerotti (LAN) Experiment
• Binary Epoch Standard Time
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Magnetic Tape Label Specifications
• Physical Tape Label Specifications
• Appendix 8 - Supplementary Experiment Data Records
• General Description
• Interface Characteristics
• Access
• Detailed Interface Specification
• Glossary
• List of Acronyms and Abbreviations
• Appendix 9 - Geometric Factor Study for the Deflected and Unscattered Electrons of HISCALE (Buckley MS Thesis)
• Chapter 1 - Introduction
• Chapter 2 - The Geometric Factor and Fluxes
• Chapter 3 - The Specific Problem
• Chapter 4 - Results
• Appendix: Listing of Coordinate Labels and Plane Coefficients
• Appendix: Listing of Coordinate Starting Points and DA Areas
• Appendix: Magnetic Field Models
• Appendix: Number of Particles Escaped for Each DA
• Appendix: Trajectories of Escaping Particles
• Appendix: Passband Adjustment
• Appendix: Calibration of Electron Efficiencies
• Appendix: Adapting This Method to the Next Instrument
• Appendix: Computer Programs
• Appendix 10 - Effect of Backscattered Electrons on the Geometric Factors of the LEMS30 Telescope (Hong MS Thesis)
• Chapter 1 - HISCALE Instrumentation
• Chapter 2 - Geometric Factor
• Chapter 3 - Numerical Procedure
• Chapter 4 - Results and Discussion
• Appendix: Backscattering Coefficients
• Appendix: Geometric Factor Approximation
• Appendix: Equations
• Appendix: Explanations of Programming Code
• Appendix: Number of Escapes
• Appendix: Trajectories of the Escaped Electrons
• Appendix: Source Code
• Appendix 11 - HISCALE IDL Display System (IDL_HS)
• User's Guide
• Reference
• Introduction
• Procedures
• Common Blocks
• Structure Tags
• The Xmanager Names
• Appendix 12 - User's Guide for Ulysses Data System
• Preface: "Rules of the Road" for Using the UDS
• Introduction
• Location and Content of UDS Files
• Appendix: UDS Access
• Appendix: Basic VMS Commands
• Appendix 13 - LAN Microfiche Graphics Produced at CNES (obsolete; not available on this website)
• Appendix 14 - LAN EDR Record Map
• Appendix 15 - Validity Checks of LAN Data Stream
• Appendix 16 - LAN PHA Documentation
• Introduction
• Inputs
• Outputs
• Processing
• Displays and Plots
• Track Files -- A Major Revision
• PHAGEN Software
• Appendix 17 - LAN Analog Electronics Engineering Memos
• Logarithmic Amplifier Thermal Compensation
• LAN Spare - LEMS/LEFS LINEAR Offset vs. Temperature
• LAN Spare - LEMS/LEFS LINEAR, Crosstalk in Linear Energy Channels
• LAN Spare - LEMS/LEFS LINEAR SAMA Crosstalk
• LAN Spare - CD Analog Crosstalk
• Pile-up Effects in the LAN CD Analog Array
• Appendix 18 - Preliminary Solar Polar Magnet Study
• Introduction
• Test Set-Up
• Data
• Results
• Addenda
• Appendix 19 - Heliosphere Instrument for Spectra, Composition and Anisotropy at Low Energies (manuscript by Lanzerotti et al.)
• Appendix 20 - An Analysis of Solar Energetic Particle Spectra Throughout the Inner Heliosphere (PhD dissertation by J. Douglas Patterson) (PDF file, 4163 KB)
• Additional explanations and material available in the HISCALE Data Archives:
  • Explanation of HISCALE Comma Separated Variable (CSV) Files
  • Information on HSIO v.3
  • Overview of IDL
  • The Buckley programs from Appendix 9 are available here in a zip file.
  • MFSA Background Rates for ACE/EPAM and Ulysses HISCALE (pdf file)
  • Technical White Paper for the Ulysses-HISCALE Background Rate Software (pdf file)
  • Separation of Proton and Electron Spectra for ACE/EPAM and Ulysses/HISCALE MFSA Data (pdf file)
  • User Guide to the Comma Separated Variables (CSV) HISCALE PHA Files (pdf file)
  • Explanation of HISCALE CUAF files
  • About DE
  • About LEFS60
  • About LEFS150
  • About LEMS30
  • About LEMS120
  • About W
  • About WARTD

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Last updated 4/22/08, T. Hunt-Ward