Reduced Cosmic-Ray Count Rate and Orbital Data Merged

Description

This data set, provided by the principal investigator, consists of reduced cosmic-ray count-rate data merged with orbital data and corresponds to the time period before the spacecraft went into a spin mode. The data are on binary magnetic tapes written on an IBM 7094 computer. The data are formatted as follows. Each tape has a 20-word file header record followed by a variable number of physical records (each having a six-word record header). There are a variable number of logical records per physical record, since the 52-word orbital-data logical record was inserted into the stream of four-word count-rate data logical records once every minute in generating this set of tapes. This insertion did not necessarily occur at the beginning or end of a given physical record. Each file contains about 5 min of data. The tapes contain all experiment counting rates, telescope temperatures, universal time, latitude, longitude, height, sun-earth-satellite angle, geomagnetic coordinates, and various data quality flags. The data within a file are always monotonically increasing in time. However, the set of files comprising a data tape is not necessarily time ordered. Redundancies in the data have been deleted.