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VOYAGER 2 SATURN PLASMA DERIVED ION FITS 96 SEC

Metadata Updated: December 7, 2023

THIS DATA SET CONTAINS THE ION PARAMETERS IN THE PLS VOLTAGE RANGE (10-5950 EV/Q) WITH FORMAL 1 SIGMA ERRORS OBTAINED FROM VOYAGER 2 DATA AT SATURN BY FITTING THE MEASURED SPECTRA WITH ISOTROPIC MAXWELLIAN DISTRIBUTIONS TO OBTAIN PLASMA DENSITIES, TEMPERATURES, AND VELOCITY. ONLY SPECTRA WHICH HAD DISTINCT CURRENT PEAKS WERE FIT. SPECTRA WERE FIT USING ONE OR TWO ION SPECIES, PROTONS AND/OR A HEAVY ION WHICH WAS TAKEN TO BE NITROGEN OUTSIDE OF 14 RS AND OXYGEN ELSEWHERE. OUTSIDE L=10-12 ION SPECTRA CHANGE RAPIDLY, SO THE VALUES IN THIS DATA SET DO NOT REPRESENT AVERAGE PLASMA CONDITIONS IN THE OUTER MAGNETOSPHERE. THE VALUES FOR POSITION AND MAGNETIC FIELD GIVEN IN THE DATA SET ARE ONLY APPROXIMATE AND SHOULD NOT BE USED FOR PUBLICATION. PARAMETERS WHICH ARE IDENTICALLY 0 AND HAVE UNCERTAINTIES OF 0 WERE NOT FIT DUE TO INSUFFICIENT DATA THESE NUMBERS ARE THUS NOT REAL VALUES. A COMPLETE DESCRIPTION OF THIS DATA SET IS GIVEN IN RICHARDSON (1986). DATA FORMAT: EACH DATA RECORD CONSISTS OF 5+2N LINES, WHERE N IS THE NUMBER OF IONS FIT. LINE 1: S (A1, INDICATES THE START OF A NEW FIT) TIME OF SPECTRUM SPACECRAFT LOCATION BRHO,BPHI,BZ(3F7.3) MONTHDAYYEAR(I7) ROUTINE USED INCORPORATING THE FULL RESPONSE FUNCTION OF THE INSTRUMENT FOR L MODES DATA): CHI-SQUARE FROM FIT (E7.3) (I2): LINES 2-5 TELL WHICH CHANNELS WERE FIT: CUP IDENTIFIER (A,B,C,D) (A1) AND ENDING CHANNEL OF EACH SET (2-20I3): LINE 6 FOR IONS: F (LINE IDENTIFIER) (A1) (I1)ION MASS, CHARGE (I3,I2) (6E10.3), WHERE THE X* VARIABLES ARE FORMAL 1 SIGMA UNCERTAINTIES: LINE 7 IDENTIFIER), ION SPECIES NUMBER (A1, I1) VZ,XVZ,WPAR,XWPAR,WPER, XWPER (6E10.3). LINES 6 AND 7 REPEAT ONCE FOR EACH ION SPECIES. A CYLINDRICAL COORDINATE SYSTEM CENTERED ON THE PLANET IS USED, WITH RHO OUTWARDS FROM THE SPIN AXIS, PHI IN THE DIRECTION OF ROTATION, AND Z THE DISTANCE ABOVE THE EQUATOR. V'S ARE VELOCITIES IN KM/S, W'S THERMAL SPEEDS IN KM/S, AND DEN'S DENSITIESIN CM-3. VALUES OF B AND POSITION INFORMATION MAY BE UNRELIABLE AND SHOULD BE VERIFIED BEFORE USE. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ABOUT THIS DATASET AND THE INSTRUMENT WHICH PRODUCED IT CAN BE FOUND ELSEWHERE IN THIS CATALOG. AN OVERVIEW OF THE DATA IN THIS DATA SET CAN BE FOUND IN RICHARDSON (1986) AND A COMPLETE INSTRUMENT DESCRIPTION CAN BE FOUND IN BRIDGE (1977).

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Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Data Update Frequency irregular

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Harvested from NASA Data.json

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Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date January 31, 2023
Metadata Updated Date December 7, 2023
Publisher National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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Data First Published 2021-05-21
Data Last Modified 2023-01-26
Category Earth Science
Public Access Level public
Data Update Frequency irregular
Bureau Code 026:00
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Homepage URL https://pds.nasa.gov/ds-view/pds/viewDataset.jsp?dsid=VG2-S-PLS-5-ION-FIT-96.0SEC
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
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