Published January 14, 2021
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Normalized MAVEN penetrating proton data (2014-2018)
Authors/Creators
- 1. The University of Iowa
- 2. The University of California, Berkeley
- 3. NASA GSFC
Description
These data were generated using SWIA & NGIMS plasma and particle data collected on the MAVEN spacecraft. These data products were used to obtain the results found in a paper submitted to JGR: Planets, "Precipitating Solar Wind Hydrogen as Observed by the MAVEN Spacecraft: Distribution as a Function of Column Density, Altitude, and Solar Zenith Angle." The data columns are as follows:
- Time [s]: This corresponds to the epoch time (ie number of seconds since January 1, 1970) at which each penetrating proton measurement was taken.
- Orbit: This is the orbit number of the MAVEN spacecraft when the measurements were taken.
- Altitude [km]: MAVEN's altitude in kilometers at the time of the penetrating proton measurement.
- Column Density [cm^-2]: The column density at the point of the penetrating proton measurements (details of calculation can be found in paper) in inverse squared centimeters.
- Normalized Height: This is the unitless, normalized peak differential flux of each penetrating proton spectrum measured by SWIA. Details of the normalization procedure can be found in the paper listed above.
- Normalized Width: This is the full width at half max divided by the peak energy for each modeled penetrating proton profile. This quantity is unitless.
- SZA [degrees]: This is the solar zenith angle in degrees at which the penetrating proton measurement was taken.
- Energy [eV]: This is the energy at which the peak flux of each modeled penetrating proton profile occurred in electronvolts.
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