RPW-TNR-SURV-FLUX>Radio and Plasma Waves, Thermal Noise Receiver, Survey mode, spectral data in physical units

This file includes the Solar Orbiter/RPW/TNR radio flux density in W/m^2/Hz for the current day. The antenna calibration method is described in Vecchio et al., 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202140988). 

Solar Orbiter, Level 3, Radio and Plasma Wave, Thermal Noise Receiver, spectral data, survey

Data provided are publicly available. If used in presentation, please acknowledge Solar Orbiter/RPW Investigation (M. Maksimovic, PI). If used in publications, please add in the acknowledgements section the following sentence: "Solar Orbiter is a mission of international cooperation between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA. The RPW instrument has been designed and funded by CNES, CNRS, the Paris Observatory, The Swedish National Space Agency, ESA-PRODEX and all the participating institutes.". Please read carefully the caveats attached to the data. For reporting purposes, we request bibliography information for any publication, etc., using these data. Please send information on the use of this data to: M. Maksimovic (PI).

Solar Orbiter is a mission of international cooperation between ESA and NASA, operated by ESA. The RPW instrument has been designed and funded by CNES, CNRS, the Paris Observatory, The Swedish National Space Agency, ESA-PRODEX and all the participating institutes.

Elapsed time in seconds since the beginning of the current sweep

Elapsed time in seconds since the beginning of the current sweep (i.e. Epoch)

High level information about the data quality of the curren record. Possible values are:  0 = bad data, 1 = known problems use at your own risk, 2 = survey data, possibly not publication quality, 3 = good for publication subject to PI approval, 4 = Excellent data which has received special treatment

Flag that indicates the state of the current record. Possible values are: 0 = no data sample, 1 = real data sample, 2 =  interpolated data sample, 3 = data sample amplitude is below background

Power spectral density before background subtraction and antenna calibration

Power spectral density measured by the TNR receiver (preamplifier contribution is included)

Radio flux density in physical units measured at the spacecraft location, after receiver background subtraction and antenna calibration

Radio flux density in Solar flux units (i.e., 10^22 W/(m^2 Hz)) normalized to 1 AU, after receiver background substraction and antenna calibration

Normalized Radio flux density in dB measured at the spacecraft location. Values are computed using the relation 10*alog10(PSD_FLUX / BG), where BG is an estimation of the background computed from the 1% percentile of the signal for each frequency.

STEREO spacecraft position in the Heliocentric Inertial (HCI) system in km

Also called Ecliptic J2000. Z is the solar north rotational axis, and X is the solar ascending node on the J2000 ecliptic.

Gamma * Leff values for the three dipole configurations: V1-V2, V2-V3 and V3-V1.

Uncertainties on GAMMA_LEFF values for each sensor configuration.

Relative uncertainties on the PDS flux for the three dipole configurations: V1-V2, V2-V3 and V3-V1. Absolute error can be retrieved by computing PSD_FLUX * PSD_FLUX_RELATIVE_ERROR.


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