--------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Data Set --------------------------------------------------------- Voyager 2 Solar Wind Plasma Data Archive, Final NSSDC ID: 77-076A-06S Mission Name: Voyager 2 Experiment Name: Plasma Spectrometer (PLS) Availability: Data at NSSDC Ready for Distribution Time Span: 1977-08-22 to 1995-11-15 (as determined by NSSDC) Description This data set contains hourly average key parameters for interplanetary cruise data acquired by the Voyager 2 Plasma Science (PLS) experiment. The data are written in ASCII format and provided in files named VY2PLA_KEY_xxyy.DAT, each covering one year of data for year yy in century xx (e.g., xxyy = 1995). Each key parameter record includes year, day, hour, proton speed (km/s), proton density (#/cc), proton thermal width (km/s), where proton temperature T(eV) = 0.0052(width)**2, and alpha density (#/cc), as well as proton bulk speed and vector components (Vr, Vt, Vn) in the RTN coordinate system. In RTN the R axis is outward from the Sun to the spacecraft, T is the cross product of the solar rotation axis and R, and N completes the orthogonal system. For hourly averages the hour is an integer, otherwise it will will have a fractional part for data from higher resolution PLS spectra. All parameters are derived from a nonlinear fit calculation. A parameter E1 (if present) gives the sum of currents for electrons. These cruise data were obtained from the MIT Plasma Group's anonymous FTP site at mit.space.edu/pub/plasma and were accompanied by spacecraft SEDR ephemeris data cataloged at NSSDC under data set ID 77-076A-00I. The SEDR and PLS key parameter data can be accessed on-line from NSSDC's Coordinated Heliospheric Observations (COHO) data base at nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov/anon_dir:[coho.vy2pla.hour] via anonymous FTP login, nssdca::anon_dir:[coho] via DECnet, or at http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/htbin/ htdir/anon_dir/coho/?/anon_dir/ via the World Wide Web. ------------------- Discipline(s) Space Physics/Heliospheric Studies Archive Locations National Space Science Data Center (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) Media Information 1 Digital Magnetic Tape --------------------------------------------------------- NSSDC Master Catalog Display Data Set Personnel --------------------------------------------------------- Voyager 2 Solar Wind Plasma Data Archive, Final NSSDC ID: 77-076A-06S General Contact Prof. John W. Belcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology 37-695 Cambridge, MA 02139 Electronic Mail JWB@SPACE.MIT.EDU (INTERNET) ----- Data Source (person submitting data) Prof. John W. Belcher Massachusetts Institute of Technology 37-695 Cambridge, MA 02139 Electronic Mail JWB@SPACE.MIT.EDU (INTERNET) ----- NSSDC Contact Dr. John F. Cooper GSFC-Code 632 Electronic Mail JCOOPER@NSSDCA.GSFC.NASA.GOV (INTERNET) NCF::JCOOPER (NSI/DECNET) ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- For questions about this data set, please contact: Dr. John F. Cooper, jcooper@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov, 301-286-1193 GSFC-Code 632 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: 1996-09-16 Output Generated: 1997-01-23 Programming by: E. V. Bell, II