# Data from: Analysis of a cusped helicon plasma thruster discharge

- Authors: Pedro Jimenez, Jiewei Zhou, Jaume Navarro, Pablo Fajardo, Mario Merino, Eduardo Ahedo

- Contact email: pejimene@ing.uc3m.es

- Date: 2024-02-08

- Keywords: electric propulsion, electrodeless plasma thruster, helicon plasma thruster, plasma simulation

- Version: 1.1

- License: This dataset is made available under the [Open Data Commons Attribution License](http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0/)



## Abstract

This dataset contains the data found in the plots of the journal article:

[Analysis of a cusped helicon plasma thruster discharge. Plasma Sources Science and Technology](https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6595/ad01da/meta)



## Dataset description

The data in this repository has been extracted from the experiments and simulations as described in the manuscript.

For further information on the setup for the simulation please refer to the article.



## Data files

The data files are in comma separated .csv format. Many programming languages provide functionalities to load such fields.

The files are organised following the order of the figures in the article. Therefore each file contains a different sized array. 

**1D plots**: Each line is given as 3 colums, the first one corresponds to the abscissa coordinate (X data), the second one to the ordinate (Y data) and the last one to the error (+/- value in the same units as Y data).

**2D contours**: All data is provided in a structured mesh. 3 matrices are concatenated in the column dimension. The first two matrices correspond to the Z,R coordinates in a [meshgrid](https://numpy.org/doc/stable/reference/generated/numpy.meshgrid.html) format, as customary in Matlab and NumPy. The last matrix corresponds to the field values. A description of the dimensions (extension in columns) of the matrices is provided as a header in the first row. 

Example: For a field represented in a 100(z) x 50 (r) mesh. The csv will have 50+1(header) rows and  3x100 = 300 columns.

## Citation

Any works using this dataset or any part of it in any form shall cite it as follows:

The prefered means of citation is to reference the publication asociated to the jounal article with DOI: [10.1088/1361-6595/ad01da](https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6595/ad01da)

The BibTex is also provided for the sake of convinience:

@article{jimenez2023analysis,
  title={Analysis of a cusped helicon plasma thruster discharge},
  author={Jim{\'e}nez, Pedro and Zhou, Jiewei and Navarro, Jaume and Fajardo, Pablo and Merino, Mario and Ahedo, Eduardo},
  journal={Plasma Sources Science and Technology},
  volume={32},
  number={10},
  pages={105013},
  year={2023},
  publisher={IOP Publishing}
}

The dataset DOI is also provided:

[![DOI](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.8154866.svg)](https://zenodo.org/badge/DOI/10.5281/zenodo.8154866)


## Acknowledgments

This dataset was created by the [ERC-ZARATHUSTRA project](https://erc-zarathustra.uc3m.es/).

The ERC-ZARATHUSTRA project has received funding from the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (grant agreement No 950466).

Initial support for the activities leading to work came from the HIPATIA project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program (grant agreement No 870542).
