ULYSSES
Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook\
- Appendix 1 - HISCALE I/O Library
- Appendix 2 - User's Guide to LAN360
- Appendix 3 - Common Data File: Rules and User's Guide
- Appendix 4 - SIS Common Data File
- Appendix 5 - Running the LAN Production
- Appendix 6 - Quality Controlled Averaging
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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
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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 ΔA Areas
- Appendix: Magnetic Field Models
- Appendix: Number of Particles Escaped for Each ΔA
- Appendix: Trajectories of Escaping Particles
- Appendix: Passband Adjustment
- Appendix: Calibration of Electron Efficiencies
- Appendix: Adapting This Method to the Next Instrument
- Appendix: Computer Programs
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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)
- Appendix 12 - User's Guide for Ulysses Data System
- 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
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Appendix 16 - LAN PHA Documentation
- Introduction
- Inputs
- Outputs
- Processing
- Displays and Plots
- Track Files -- A Major Revision
- PHAGEN Software (obsolete, removed from this site)
- Appendix 17 - LAN Analog Electronics Engineering Memos
- Appendix 18 - Preliminary Solar Polar Magnet Study
- 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
Return to Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook Table of Contents
Updated 07/18/2022, Dr. Jerry W. Manweiler
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