NASA's Voyager 1 Refined Magnetic Field Data (1-10 au)
DOI10.5281/zenodo.5711178Zenodo5711178MaRDI QIDQ6722251FDOQ6722251
Dataset published at Zenodo repository.
W. H. Matthaeus, Manuel Enrique Cuesta, Tulasi N. Parashar, Rohit Chhiber
Publication date: 19 November 2021
Copyright license: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
This dataset contains NASAs Voyager 1 spacecraft in situ measurements of the solar wind for the Cartesian RTN magnetic field (nT), heliocentric distance (au), proton density (cm^-3), and bulk flow speed (km/s), with time resolution 1.92 seconds. The original source for this refined dataset can be found via the Goddard Space Flight Center Space Physics Data Facility (SPDF), for 2 second MAG data and hourly averaged plasma data. The range of heliocentric distance covered in this dataset is from 1-10 au and each file contains a time series of magnetic field measurements over two days. Each file is labeled with the start and end day covered by the magnetic field time series. Information regarding heliocentric distance, proton density, and bulk flow speed in each file are represented by averages over the corresponding two-day interval. These averages were taken from the hourly averaged data, provided by SPDF, over the appropriate time covered by themagnetic field time series. The CDF files have global attributes: CREATOR, AFFILIATION, S/C NAME, and DATE CREATED. Variable keys are SSEPOCH (time), BR (radial magnetic field), BT (tangential magnetic field), BN (normal magnetic field), R (heliocentric distance), N (proton density), and VSW (bulk flow speed), with variable attribute UNITS. The SSEPOCH variable are timed measurements in units of seconds since Epoch (January 1, 1970). The CDF files were generated in Python using the spacepy.pycdf library. For more specifics regarding the magnetic field cleaning methods utilized to produce this dataset, please refer to the Masters Thesis Voyager 1: Cleaning Magnetic Field Data for Turbulence Studies and contact the author for any questions related to the thesis or access. Please send any questions/concerns to Manuel Enrique Cuesta at mecuesta@udel.edu for any problems related to downloading/accessing the data from the CDF files.
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