ULYSSES
Appendices
Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook
Table of Contents
Revised 1999-2009, T. Hunt-Ward and T. P. Armstrong
- Preface
- List of Tables
- List of Figures
- Chapter One: Purposes of This Document
- Chapter Two: HISCALE Data File Descriptions and Overview
- Chapter Three: HISCALE Ground Data Processing and Software Archives (obsolete; no longer available)
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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
Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane
QUICK FACTS
Manufacturer:
ESA provided the Ulysses spacecraft, NASA provided the power
supply, and various others provided its instruments.
Mission End Date: June 30, 2009
Destination: The inner heliosphere of the sun away from the ecliptic plane
Orbit: Elliptical orbit transversing the polar regions of the sun outside of the ecliptic plane
Mission End Date: June 30, 2009
Destination: The inner heliosphere of the sun away from the ecliptic plane
Orbit: Elliptical orbit transversing the polar regions of the sun outside of the ecliptic plane