This *cdf file contains observations taken from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) for the mission elapsed. This file is in CDF form and the data have undergone calibration and decompression from the binary MSL RAD EDR data.

This file contains data from RAD_RDR: Radiation Assessment Detector on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). There is one sols worth of observations where each observation can have four types of data: (1) Counters, (2) Histograms, (3) Dosimetry, and (4) PHA data. These data are organized in a hierarchical fashion in which some observations may not have all four types. These are described in the data object sections. For additional information and details concerning data organization, science meaning, etc., please refer to the Data Set Catalog, MSLRAD_RDR_DS.CAT.1 

Dataset contains all data, however data is flagged (FLAGGED_DATA) if there are quality issues(cmds > 2, DAN firing, data corruption, &c.

A RAD instrument observation is the 'sampling period', for each observation there are variables DURATION and ALIVE_TIME that both are indicators of the length of the observation.  Though similar, they have slightly different meanings, the DURATION (a coarse timer with 1 sec res) is the period from when RAD began acquiring data, until RAD stopped taking data.  The ALIVE_TIME (10us res) is based on how many seconds the hardware was able to accept incoming particles. ALIVE_TIME has a companion variable DEAD_TIME, which indicates how many seconds the hardware was 'busy' processing (and hence cannot accept an incoming particle).  In most nominal cases, the most accurate what to determine the observations active period is ALIVE_TIME + DEAD_TIME.   There can be exceptions, if the ALIVE_TIME counter maxxed out.  In those cases the DURATION would be used. 

The Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) and its data products are described in detail in the literature (Hassler et al., 2012). Each RAD observation contains the following: (1) Instrument counters, (2) Neutral particle count histograms in detectors D and E, (3) LET count histograms, (4) Absorbed dose rate in detectors B and E, (5) High-cadence dose rate in B and E (16 rates per observation).

Please acknowledge the RAD Principal Investigator Dr. Hassler of Southwest Research Institute Boulder.

The RAD data are archived as fully citable data. Please consult the RAD team for further details on processing and usage of these data.

RAD accumulates nominally acquires data in a 16 min observational cadence. During times of high count rates this cadence switches to 8in.

Particle events that matched  for index 0 [A1U and BU and not C2L]

Particle events that matched  for index 1 [A2U and BU and not C2L]

Particle events that matched  for index 6 [not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and EH and EI and EM]

[not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and EH and EI and EM]

Particle events that matched  for index 7 [not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and DH and DI]

[not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and DH and DI]

Particle events that matched  for index 8 [not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and DH and DI and EH and EI]

[not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and DH and DI and EH and EI]

Particle events that matched  for index 10 [not F1L and not A1U and not A2U and BU and not BH and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and not DH and not EH]

[not F1L and not A1U and not A2U and BU and not BH and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and not DH and not EH]

Particle events that matched  for index 11 [A2U and BU and CU and DH and EH]

Particle events that matched  for index 12 [not A1U and not A2U and not BU and not CU and DH and EH]

Particle events that matched  for index 13 [A2U and BU and CU and DH and not EH]

Particle events that matched  for index 14 [not A1M and not A2M and BM and not CM]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 0 [A1U and BU and not C2L]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 1 [A2U and BU and not C2L]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 2 [A1M and BM]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 3 [A2M and BM]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 4 [BU]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 5 [EH and EI]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 6 [not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and EH and EI and EM]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 7 [not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and DH and DI]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 8 [not F1L and not BU and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and DH and DI and EH and EI]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 9 [DM and DL]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 10 [not F1L and not A1U and not A2U and BU and not BH and not C2H and not C2L and not CU and not DH and not EH]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 11 [A2U and BU and CU and DH and EH]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 12 [not A1U and not A2U and not BU and not CU and DH and EH]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 13 [A2U and BU and CU and DH and not EH]

Particle events that were analyzed by hardware  for index 14 [not A1M and not A2M and BM and not CM]

Flagged data has quality issues from various sources, Commanding, DAN activity, Other


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