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Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook

Revised 1999-2008, T. Hunt-Ward and T. P. Armstrong

Table of Contents

• Preface
  • Mission Background
  • Ulysses Scientific Payload
  • Fundamental Technologies Responsibilities
  • Acknowledgments
  • HISCALE Team Picture
  • HISCALE Team Roster
  • Photo of the Ulysses spacecraft
• List of Tables
• List of Figures
• Chapter One: Purposes of This Document
  • Scientific Objectives
  • List of References and Source Documents
  • Summary of Instrument Characteristics
• Chapter Two: HISCALE Data File Descriptions and Overview
  • HISCALE Data Processing Steps
  • Experiment Data Record (Level 0)
  • HISCALE Level 1 Files
  • Common Data File
• Chapter Three: HISCALE Ground Data Processing and Software
• Chapter Four: Instrument Details
• System Block Diagrams and General Features
• Mechanical Features
• Analog Electronics
• Passband Data and Calculated Responses
• Data System
• Validity Checks of the LAN Data Stream
• Spin Reference Pulse
• Calibrations
• Modeling of the Magnetic Electron Deflection System
• Many-fold Coincidence Pileup in Silicon Detectors: Solar X-Ray Response of Charged Particle Detector Systems for Space (manuscript by Nikitin et al.)
• Calculated Responses of HISCALE Sensors to Ulysses RTG Radiation
• Calculated Responses of HISCALE Sensors to Omnidirectionally Penetrating Galactic Cosmic Rays
• Summary of HISCALE 4-pi Viewing and Sectoring Relationships
• Calculation of Geometrical Factors Including the Effect of Vignetting
• RTG Radiation Background Tests
• Calibration of Analog Housekeeping Data
• Chapter Five: Inflight Performance
  • Backgrounds
  • Cover Close Calibrations
  • In-Flight Calibration Sources
  • Determination of HISCALE MFSA Background Rates Using IMP-8 Monitored Omnidirectional Galactic Cosmic Rays (PDF document)
  • Technical White Paper for the Ulysses HISCALE Background Rate Software (PDF document)
• Appendices

If you find any errors, please send email to Tizby Hunt-Ward: tizby@ftecs.com.  Suggestions and comments are welcome.

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Updated 4/18/08, T. Hunt-Ward