File: P10TRD_FMT.txt                                  Version: 11/15/2001 JFC
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Pioneer 10 Trapped Radiation Detector Experiment: 
   Hourly Averaged Interplanetary Cosmic Ray Data, 1972-1993

Dates: 1972-03-03 to 1993-11-02 

Principal Investigator: Dr. Walker Fillius
                        CASS 0111
                        University of California - San Diego

Data Set Description:

Four TRD data channels are given for response to high energy cosmic ray protons
and Z>1 ions. The counting rates are calculated as one-hour averages from
original dataset records at thirty-minute intervals. Times are given as
Spacecraft Event Time - UT (SCET-UT). The source data set was 72-012A-05G; the
documentation and most recent data files for this data set are located on-line
in directory 30_MIN. Information on the TRD experiment and personnel are given 
in file P10TRD_NMC.txt.                                  

Parameter Description:

IYR = Year (4 digits)
IMN = Month of year
IDA = Day of Month
IHR = Hour of Day
TBR = Code for Telemetry Bit Rate                  [bits/second = 2**(3+TBR)]
TDF = Telemetry Data Format (A, A/D, B, B/D)
M3L = 80-300 MeV Protons and >80 MeV/nucl. Z>1 Ions [counts/second]
M1L = >80 MeV/nucl. Protons and Z>1 Ions            [counts/second]
C1  = >500 MeV Protons and Z>1 Ions                 [counts/second]
C3  = >500 MeV/nucl. Protons and Z>1 Ions           [counts/second]
RAD = Radial distance of spacecraft from Sun        [AU]
                                                    

Parameter Format:

The code READTRD reads summary data files from the Pioneer 10 and 11 TRD
experiments in 30-minute averages and outputs one-hour averages weighted by the
number of samples in each 30-minute data record. The output WRITE statement for
the one-hour records in COHO is as follows:

      WRITE(20,320) IYROUT,IMOOUT,IDAOUT,IHROUT,TBR,TDF,RM3L,
     *   RM1L,RC1,RC3,XRADIS
320   FORMAT(4(1X,I2),1X,I1,1X,A3,4E11.4,1X,F7.3)


Related Information and Data:

Further details on the spacecraft, experiment, data sets at NSSDC, and related
WWW sites can be found on the Pioneer 10/11 flight project page under

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/space/space_physics_home.html

Hour averages of the interplanetary solar wind data from, and hourly heliocentric
coordinates of, Pioneer 10/11 and other interplanetary spacecraft may be also
be accessed and plotted on-line through the COHOWeb service based at the same
WWW site as above.

Acknowledgement:

Use of these data in publications should be accompanied at minimum by
acknowledgements of the National Space Science Data Center and the responsible
Principal Investigator defined in the experiment documentation provided here.
Citation of NSSDC's Coordinated Heliospheric Observations (COHO) data base
would also be appreciated, so that other potential users will be made aware of
this service.