Ulysses HISCALE Data Analysis Handbook
Appendix 11. HISCALE IDL Display System (IDL_HS)
A11.2 Part Two - Reference (continued)
A11.2.2 Procedures (continued)
ACQUIRE_MAG
Reads in the data from the file and stores the appropriate parts of it in the arrays b_field and b_time.
ACQUIRE_MAG | b_found |
ACQUIRE_MAG_UAV
Reads in the data from the file and stores the appropriate parts of it in the arrays b_field and b_time.
ACQUIRE_MAG_UAV | b_found |
AVERAGE_MAG
Takes the rates accumulated and averages them over the requested time interval.
AVERAGE_MAG
B_COMP
Choose whether to plot components or directions.
B_COMP | "COMPONENTS" "DIRECTIONS" |
B_COORD_MENU
PLOT_MAG coordinates choice menu.
B_COORD_EVENT | event |
B_COORD_MENU | "GROUP" |
B_COORDS
Select the coordinate system to be used for magnetic field plots.
B_COORDS | system "EME1950" "HELIOCENTRIC" "RTN" "SPACECRAFT" |
B_SCALE
Select plot scaling options.
B_SCALE | maxis caxis taxis "FINISH" "INDIVIDUAL" "START" "UNIFORM" |
B_SCALE_MENU
Menu interface for mag field scaling.
B_SCALE_EVENT | event |
B_SCALE_MENU | "GROUP" |
CREATE_MAG_ARR
Create the arrays needed to read the field data and store them for plotting.
CREATE_MAG_ARR | nvals |
EXTEND_MAG_ARR
Extends the data arrays as requested by ACQUIRE_DATA etc. Extension is by 20% of current length.
EXTEND_MAG_ARR | ndmax |
MAG_HEADER
Plots an overall heading for the mag plots.
MAG_HEADER | yvalue |
MAG_MENU
Widget based interface for plot_mag.
MAG_EVENT | event |
MAG_MENU | "GROUP" |
PLOT_B
Control plotting of magnetic field.
PLOT_B
PLOT_B_COMP
Plot magnetic field components.
PLOT_B_COMP
PLOT_B_DIRN
Plot magnetic field directions.
PLOT_B_DIRN
PLOT_MAG
Plot magnetic field data from Ulysses magnetometer.
PLOT_MAG | "PROMPT" "REREAD" |
S_B_ARR_MENU
Widget interface for SAVE_B_ARRAYS
S_B_ARR_EVENT | event |
S_B_ARR_MENU | "GROUP" |
SAVE_B_ARRAYS
Saves the field and time arrays from the last run of PLOT_MAG.
SAVE_B_ARRAYS | file "ASTERIX" "IDLSAVE" "XDR" |
SAVE_B_AST
Save the plot_rates data arrays to Asterix IMPORT format files.
SAVE_B_AST | fsav |
TIDY_MAG
Tidy up magnetic field data after reading.
TIDY_MAG
ACQUIRE_PAD
Read in the data from the ULA file.
ACQUIRE_PAD | b_found |
AVERAGE_COL
Average R8, R4, and BFIELD.
AVERAGE_COL
CRE_PAD_ARRAY
Create arrays for Pitch Angle Display.
CRE_PAD_ARRAY | nmax |
DRAWPITCH
Plot one box of PAD.
DRAWPITCH | nrm xx mx ix iy ylabel nsect |
DRAWPITCH_BOXES
Plot npages x nrows x ncol of PAD boxes.
DRAWPITCH_BOXES
DRAWVIEW
Plot one box of look direction plot.
DRAWVIEW | theta phi mx btheta bphi ix iy ylabel nsect |
EXT_PAD_ARRAY
Extend arrays for Pitch Angle Display.
EXT_PAD_ARRAY | nmax |
FRAMESET
Sets up the various constants for the plotting.
FRAMESET | ytopr |
GETPITCHES
Compute the cosine pitch angle of particle direction from the magnetic field and sector look direction.
GETPITCHES | j cosp8 cosp4 |
INIDET
Initialize HISCALE instrument sector look directions for all the detectors.
INIDET | det8 det4 |
JOIN_MENU
Select pad connection type from menu.
JOIN_EVENT | event |
JOIN_MENU | "GROUP" |
P_TIMELABEL
Label of time under a column of PAD plots.
P_TIMELABEL | k tcol nrows b |
PAD_ANGLE
Control whether to use angles or cosines for PAD plots.
PAD_ANGLE | "ANGLE" "COSINE" |
PAD_C_F_MENU
Select channels for PLOT_PAD by menu.
PAD_C_F_EVENT | event |
PAD_C_F_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_C_M_MENU
Select channels for PLOT_PAD by menu.
PAD_C_M_EVENT | event |
PAD_C_M_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_CHANNELS
To read in the channels set up file for PLOT_PAD
PAD_CHANNELS | file "DELETE" "SAVE" "TERMINAL" |
PAD_FC
Select flux or counts to plot.
PAD_FC | "COUNT" "FLUX" |
PAD_FLOW
Switch between straight pitch angle plots and flow angle plots.
PAD_FLOW | theta phi "FLOW" "PITCH" |
PAD_FLOW_MENU
Set flow parameters, via menus.
PAD_FLOW_EVENT | event |
PAD_FLOW_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_FLUX_CONV
Convert counts to flux and subtract bg if needed.
PAD_FLUX_CONV
PAD_HEADER
Plots an overall heading for the pad plots.
PAD_HEADER | label yvalue |
PAD_INT_MENU
Menu version of pad interval setting.
PAD_INT_EVENT | event |
PAD_INT_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_INTERVAL
Set interval for PLOT_PAD (only plot every interval'th plot).
PAD_INTERVAL | interval |
PAD_JOIN
Select whether to join up points in PAD plot.
PAD_JOIN | "OFF" "ON" "SEQENCE" "SORT" "SYMBOLS" |
PAD_LAYOUT
Control layout of PAD plots.
PAD_LAYOUT | maxcols maxrows maxpage maxlines |
PAD_LAYOUT_MENU
Control layout of plot_pad via widget interface.
PAD_LAYOUT_EVEN | event |
PAD_LAYOUT_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_MENU
Widget based interface for plot_pad.
PAD_EVENT | event |
PAD_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_SET_NAMES
Sets up the channel names for PLOT_PAD
PAD_SET_NAMES
PAD_X_KILL
Remove X-ray contaminated channels from 4-sector pads.
PAD_X_KILL | nrm ich |
PAD_X_MENU
Select exclusion level for X-rays in spectra.
PAD_X_EVENT | event |
PAD_X_MENU | "GROUP" |
PAD_XRAYS
Set level at which to exclude sectors 1 & 4 of the P channels in pitch plots.
PAD_XRAYS | "LEVEL" "OFF" |
PLOT_PAD
Make a plot of averaged normalized (rate or flux) vs cosine pitch angle for selected channels.
PLOT_PAD | "PROMPT" "REREAD" |
ROTZTHETA
Rotates vector 1 around z-axis in anti-clockwise angle, dly. Angle must be expressed in radian.
ROTZTHETA | dly vect1 vect2 |
SAVE_PCHAN
Save the current PAD channels.
SAVE_PCHAN | sffile |
EC1950
Convert a y,d,m,h,s time to seconds after 1950.0
SEC1950 | t |
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Updated 8/8/19, Cameron Crane
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