The Ulysses Unified Radio & Plasma Wave Investigation
URAP

Principal Investigator:

Dr. Robert. J. MacDowall
Laboratory for Extraterrestrial Physics
Code 695
NASA/GSFC
Greenbelt
MD 20771
USA		 Image of URAP magnetic search coil (STO 6)

 

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URAP Mission Archive

The URAP mission archive contains data, software, and documentation from the URAP instrument on the Ulysses spacecraft.

Structure

The contents of the archive are located in a number of directories, whose structure is as follows:

data URAP data files
docs Documentation
docs/others Miscellaneous documents
docs/software Documentation about software
docs/URAP_instrument Documentation on the instrument
software Programs to access and display URAP data
software/Fortran Fortran programs
software/IDL IDL programs

Data Files

The data directory contains the following sub-directories:

cmd Files containing instrument status
dirfind/plot Plots of direction-finding results
dirfind/text Text files of direction-finding results
edr EDR files - level zero data
fes DECOM output files for the finite envelope sampler
pfr DECOM output files for the plasma frequency receiver
qtn/data Results for quasi-thermal noise measurements
qtn/plots Plots of results for quasi-thermal noise measurements
rar DECOM output files for the radio astronomy receiver
rav Files of averaged RAR data
sedr Files of Supplementary Experimental Data Records
uds/pfra 10 minute averages of PFR data
uds/pfrp 10 minute peaks of PFR data
uds/rara 10 minute averages of RAR data
uds/rarp 10 minute peaks of RAR data
uds/wfba 10 minute averages of WFA magnetic field data
uds/wfbp 10 minute peaks of WFA magnetic field data
uds/wfea 10 minute averages of WFA electric field data
uds/wfep 10 minute peaks of WFA electric field data
uds1hr/pfra Hour averages of PFR data
uds1hr/pfrp Hour peaks of PFR data
uds1hr/rara Hour averages of RAR average data
uds1hr/rarp Hour peaks of RAR peak data
uds1hr/wfba Hour averages of WFA magnetic field data
uds1hr/wfbp Hour peaks of WFA magnetic field data
uds1hr/wfea Hour averages of WFA electric field data
uds1hr/wfep Hour peaks of WFA electric field data
wfa DECOM output files for the waveform analyzer

software/Fortran

This directory contains the following files

urap_calibration.f90 A Fortran module containing routines to perform calibration of URAP data for the FES, PFR, RAR and WFA.
urap_kinds.f90 A Fortran module that defines the "kind" numbers that are used in the other modules.
urap_library.f90 A Fortran module that provides routines to load data from the URAP instruments. Documentation for the routines can be found in the docs/software directory.

software/IDL

This directory contains IDL procedures for accessing and displaying URAP data. It also contains procedures for performing radio direction finding using URAP data. Documentation for the main procedures can be found in the docs/software directory. The files are:

cvt_day82_ymd.pro Converts a date/time value in days since 1982 to year, month, day and time values.
day82.pro Converts from year, month, day, time to days since 1982.
day82_to_str.pro Converts a date/time value in days since 1982 to a string.
join_path.pro Join directories names to form a path name.
lct39.pro A routine to load a particular color table
list_urap.pro List urap data
load_fes.pro Load URAP FES data.
load_pfr.pro Load URAP PFR data.
load_rar.pro Load URAP RAR data.
load_sedr.pro Load Ulysses SEDR data.
load_snd.pro Load URAP SND data.
load_wfa.pro Load URAP WFA data.
show_spectrum.pro Display a URAP RAR spectrum.
time_interval Convert a time interval to a standard form
xdfind Perform radio direction finding of URAP data.
gui_fes Display plots of URAP FES data.

 

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