--------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Data Set --------------------------------------------------------- Merged Hourly Averaged Field and Plasma Data on Magnetic Tape NSSDC ID: 76-003A-09B Mission Name: Helios-B Experiment Name: Plasma Detectors Availability: Data at NSSDC Ready for Distribution Time Span: 1976-01-15 to 1980-03-04 (as determined by NSSDC) Description These merged hourly averaged magnetic field and plasma data are on binary magnetic tape created on an IBM 360 computer. The first file consists of ASCII card images describing the data files. Each 30-word data record contains spacecraft identification; data code (1 = plasma data only, 2 = magnetometer data only, and 3 = both); year, day, and hour of the data interval; cumulative day and fractional day since January 1, 1972; spacecraft heliocentric distance (AU); Carrington rotation number and longitude of the subspacecraft point; earth-sun-spacecraft separation angle; components of the interplanetary magnetic field; magnitude of the interplanetary magnetic field vector; standard deviation; solar wind bulk flow speed; radial component of the proton temperature; solar wind number density; standard deviation of bulk flow speed, proton temperature, and proton number density; proton flow elevation angle and azimuth angle; elevation and azimuth angles of the magnetic field vector in the solar ecliptic coordinate system; and the cumulative word count. ------------------- Discipline(s) Space Physics/Heliospheric Studies Media Information 1 Restored Tape --------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Data Set Personnel --------------------------------------------------------- Merged Hourly Averaged Field and Plasma Data on Magnetic Tape NSSDC ID: 76-003A-09B Data Source (person submitting data) Prof. John W. Freeman Department of Space Physics Rice University PO Box 1892 Houston, TX 77251 Electronic Mail FREEMAN@ALFVEN.RICE.EDU (INTERNET) RICE::FREEMAN (NSI/DECNET) ----- NSSDC Contact Dr. H. Kent Hills GSFC-Code 633 Electronic Mail HILLS@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) NSSDCA::HILLS (NSI/DECNET) ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions about this data set, please contact: Dr. H. Kent Hills, hills@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov, (301)296-9431 GSFC-Code 633 For questions about the NSSDC's information systems, please contact: Dr. James Thieman, thieman@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov, (301)286-9790 National Space Science Data Center, Code 633.2 NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- NASA Official: J. H. King, king@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov Last Updated: 1996-02-26 Output Generated: 1996-09-25 Programming by: E. V. Bell, II