MESSENGER EPPS EPS Calibrate Scan Rate Data Collection
Short Name:
mess_epps_eps_ca
Date:
25 Apr 2025 02:07:32
Publisher:
Planetary Data System
Description:
Integrated EPS hardware counters over four energy thresholds. Each
threshold setting and integration lasts 1/4 second. Rates are reported
in both raw and 'delta' form, see SIS document for details. CDR
available only after FSW6 (8/18/2008).
MESSENGER EPPS EPS Derived Daily Pitch Angle Spectrograms Data
Collection
Short Name:
mess_epps_eps_de
Date:
25 Apr 2025 02:05:56
Publisher:
Planetary Data System
Description:
Contains derived daily pitch angle spectrogram data for the EPS
odd-numbered shaped channels (ion=1,5,7,9). A given pitch angle
spectrogram DDR data file contains all the observations obtained on
one electron event. The particle measurement is 120 seconds averaged.
MESSENGER EPPS EPS Derived Pitch Angle Data Collection
Short Name:
mess_epps_eps_de
Date:
25 Apr 2025 02:02:24
Publisher:
Planetary Data System
Description:
EPS derived pitch angles for each of the six look directions reported
at the same cadence as the EPS LoRes Spectral rate measurements. Each
file thus has a one-to-one relationship with a corresponding LoRes
spectral file.
Contains alternating current (AC) level values at the commanded
sample rate. To conserve telemetry the vector sampling will usually be
less than the maximum rate, 20 sample/s. To provide a record of the
amplitude of fluctuations for frequencies higher than 1 Hz, an AC
amplitude is calculated from the internally sampled 20/s data for the
sensor axis commanded as the AC_AXIS. Thus, in addition to the vector
samples data, a 1 Hz to 10 Hz bandpass average amplitude is evaluated
for the commanded sensor axis, selected by command, and recorded as a
log AC value with a 4-bit mantissa of the four most significant
non-zero bits and a 4-bit power of two exponent of the 4th (least
significant) bit of the mantissa. This is called the logAC value. It
is created once per second and saved for telemetry at that rate or at
the commanded science rate, whichever is less frequent.