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Vega 1 solar wind parameters (20-min)
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This data set is a 20-min-resolution collection of solar wind plasma parameters from the interplanetary phases of the Soviet Vega 1 mission to Comet Halley.
Description
The data consist of proton flow speeds, densities and temperatures determined by fitting counts-vs-energy data measured on the sunward-looking electrostatic analyzer to a convecting Maxwellian. There are actually two sets of parameters, one ("linear") obtained by minimizing the sum of squares of measured and modelled counts and the other ("log") used logs of counts rather than counts themselves.
Also included are numbers of energy intervals used in the linear and log determinations less than and greater than the spectral peaks. The data are at 20-min resolution because the during cruise phase only one or two 10-sec spectra were determined every 20 minutes. Further, the data have long gaps between the first and last days of coverage.
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The major data gaps are +---------------------------------------------------------------+ Vega 1: Vega 2: ----------------------------------------------------------------+ 85/04/20 - 85/07/23 85/04/16 - 85/07/24 85/12/21 - 86/01/05 85/09/27 - 85/11/27 86/04/29 - 86/08/04 85/12/03 - 86/02/20 86/02/23 - 86/03/06 +----------------------------------------------------------------+ Discussions of this investigation are found in Gringauz et al (Nature, v321, p282, 1986), Galeev et al (JGR, v93, p7527, 1988) and references therein.
Links
Get the data
- Resource spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/zzz_old/vega_data_from_nssdc/plasma ↗
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- Resource hpde.io/NASA/NumericalData/Vega1/PLASMAG/PT20M ↗
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- Resource spdf.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/data/zzz_old/vega_data_from_nssdc/plasma ↗
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- Resource helio.data.nasa.gov/dataset/Vega1_PLASMAG_PT20M ↗
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Where it is published
- NASA Data Portal dataset page data.nasa.gov/dataset/vega-1-solar-wind-parameters-20-min-0d511 ↗
landing page · from data nasa gov
- DOI doi.org/10.48322/4wk8-rs73 ↗
DOI / persistent id · from data nasa gov
Catalogue records · 1
- CKAN API data.nasa.gov/api/3/action/package_show?id=5f60eb0c-d220-4263-93f6-085dd73c8… ↗
metadata API · from data nasa gov
Topics
- From keywords
- Astronomy & Astrophysics · Earth & Environmental Science · Ocean & Atmospheric Science · Physics
- Inferred from text
- Space sciences 73%
Provenance · 1 source records, 11 field assertions
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