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2014-08-23 SwRI:BTCarcich
Updated from comments in PDS peer review on 2014-08-19.
2016-06 SwRI:BTCarcich
Updated from comments in PDS peer review in 2016-05
2017-02-15 SwRI:TFinley
Updated contact info and comments from PDS peer review 2016-12-05
2018-04-26
Updated by PPI to include a GEOMETRY directory"
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NOTE = "The NH PEPSSI Pluto encounter
Raw VERSION 3.0
Data Archive
Be sure to read the Required Reading
note below before using the data in
this archive.
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The NH PEPSSI PLUTO Raw VERSION 3.0 Data Archive
========================================================================
Table of Contents
=================
Introduction
Required Reading
Volume Format
File Formats
Volume Contents
Whom to Contact for Information
Introduction
============
Extensive preparation is necessary to properly understand and interpret
the data in this data set. Very little data set-specific detail is
provided here; this file is only intended as a brief introduction to the
volume structure of the files in this data set. Refer to the Required
Reading section below for further guidance.
Science data content
--------------------
This document is a volume structure overview of the New Horizons (NH)
PEPSSI PLUTO Raw VERSION 3.0 Flight Data Archive.
PEPSSI (Pluto Energetic Particles Spectrometer Science Investigation)
is a particle telescope and a time-of-flight (TOF) spectrometer that
measures ions and electrons over a broad range of energies and
angles. The common data products contain these event and summary
measurements, accumulated over fixed periods of 86,400 seconds, with
each period in a single file comprising multiple binary tables.
This first-delivered data set includes low-time resolution data from
Approach, CORE and Departure subphases through the end of July, 2015.
It also includes two selected periods of high-resolution data from the
CORE subphase on the day of Pluto flyby (14 Jul 2015): the first period
starts ninety minutes after Pluto closest approach and lasts about forty
minutes; the second starts nine hours after closest approach and lasts
about fifteen minutes.
Boilerplate disclaimer
----------------------
All NH Raw and Calibrated data sets were generated in similar fashion by
an automated pipeline; as such, all of the information that follows is
boilerplate common to all such NH data sets, with pointers to locations
in this data set where more information can be found. Refer to the data
set catalog (CATALOG/DATASET.CAT) and documentation (DOCUMENT/), as well
as the Required Reading referred to below, plus the files pointed to, for
information specific to the instrument and data of this data set.
Required Reading
================
Almost all of the New Horizons instruments have complex modes of
operation and complex, multi-part data products; users who want to
properly understand these data should expect to spend a significant
effort (at least a day per instrument) reading about and researching the
instrument, the data and the PDS product formats. To support that, the
data producer has provided a Required Reading list as a starting point
directing the user to NH data set documentation; refer to the
DOCUMENT/AAA_GENERIC_README/AAARINFO.TXT file for more detail.
Volume Format
=============
This volume has been formatted according to the PDS Standards Reference
3.8 version current as of the publication date of this data set.
File Formats
============
All text documents and other meta information files such as
descriptions, PDS object definitions and detached PDS labels are
stream format files, with a carriage return (ASCII 13) and a line
feed character (ASCII 10) at the end of the record. This allows
the files to be read by most current operating systems.
Data are provided in FITS format with detached PDS labels. See the
DOCUMENT/AAA_GENERIC_README/AAARINFO.TXT file for a PDS label overview
and pointers to suggested FITS & PDS software packages.
Volume Contents
===============
Files on this volume are organized into a set of sub-directories
below the top-level directory. The following table shows the general
structure and content of these directories, but does not exhaustively
list every file in each directory. See the *INFO.TXT files in each
top-level sub-directory for specific information about the files
under that directory.
In this table, directory names are surrounded by forward slashes (/),
and the top-level of the volume is indicated by a single forward slash.
Refer to the data set catalog (CATALOG/DATASET.CAT) and the file
AAA_GENERIC_README/AAARINFO.TXT for a description of DATA/ sub-directory
naming conventions, data filenames and product IDs
/ Top level of volume
|
+-- AAREADME.TXT The AAREADME file; a backup is in /DOCUMENT/
|
+--/CALIB/ Top-level directory containing calibration files
| |
| +-- CALINFO.TXT Description of files in the CALIB directory
| +-- *.* Calibration files
|
|--/CATALOG/ Directory containing PDS catalog objects.
| |
| +-- CATINFO.TXT Description of files in the CATALOG directory.
| +-- *.* Catalog files
|
+--/DATA/ Top-level data directory
| |
| +--/YYYYMMDD_MET/ Sub-directories of /DATA/ containing data files
| |
| +-- *.LBL Data product PDS labels
| +-- *.FIT Data product data files (FITS format)
|
+--/DOCUMENT/ Directory containing dataset-related documents.
| |
| +-- /AAA_GENERIC_README/ Sub-directory of pointers to more
| | | information about NH data sets
| | |
| | +-- AAARINFO.TXT Description of files in this sub-directory
| | +-- *.* Pointers to more information
| |
| +-- AAREADME_BU.TXT A backup of the top-level /AAREADME.TXT file
| +-- DOCINFO.TXT Description of files in the DOCUMENT directory.
| +-- *.* Documentation files
| |
| +--/SAMPLES/ Sub-directory containing data samples
| | |
| | +-- SAMPINFO.TXT Description of files in the SAMPLES dir.
| | +-- *.* Data sample files and documentation
| |
| +-- /*/ Additional documentation sub-directories
| | - Not present in all data sets
| |
| +-- *.* Additional documentation files
|
+--/GEOMETRY/ Top-level directory containing trajectory files
| +-- GEOMINFO.TXT Description of files in the GEOMETRY/ directory
| +-- *.* Trajectory files copied from the DOCUMENT/
| directory
|
+-- ERRATA.TXT Documentation of errors discovered post-delivery
| - ERRATA.TXT is not present in all data sets
|
+--/INDEX/ Directory containing index files.
| |
| +-- INDXINFO.TXT Description of files in the INDEX directory
| +-- *.* Index files and labels
|
+-- VOLDESC.CAT Description of the logical contents of this volume.
Whom to Contact for Information
===============================
New Horizons PEPSSI Principal Investigator:
Ralph McNutt, Jr.
Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory
Space Department
11100 Johns Hopkins Road
Room MP3-E116
Laurel, MD 20723
USA
New Horizons Science Operations Center (SOC):
Tiffany Finley
Southwest Research Institute (SwRI)
Department of Space Operations
1050 Walnut Street, Suite 400
Boulder, CO 80302
USA
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