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Data Set Overview
=================
This data set contains Raw data taken by New Horizons
Alice UV Imager
instrument during the JUPITER mission phase.
During the Jupiter flyby phase, the Alice instrument observed:
Jupiter, Io and its torus, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto.
Types of observations included UV spectra of the targets as well
as eclipses and stellar occultations.
Every observation provided in this data set was taken as a part of a
particular sequence. A list of these sequences follows:
Sequence IDs & start times (end times are the start times
of the following Sequence IDs) for the ALICE instrument
during the JUPITER phase of the New Horizons Mission
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Sequence ID: JEAL_JALICECAL01
Start UTC: 2007-01-06T20:00:00
Description: JUPITER; Alice 501-504; Main objective to ensure a safe
atonomous HV Ramp
Sequence ID: JEAL_EALICECAL01
Start UTC: 2007-01-27T08:00:00
Description: EUROPA; Alice pt source
Sequence ID: JEAL_EALICECAL02
Start UTC: 2007-02-15T11:42:00
Description: EUROPA; Alice point source
Sequence ID: JEAL_JOCC03
Start UTC: 2007-02-22T16:23:00
Description: FJUPITER; Stellar occultation, ingress (preferred);
3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM. Could be combined with the
'auroral response to magnetosphere' observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_JOCC04
Start UTC: 2007-02-22T23:35:00
Description: FJUPITER; Stellar occultation, egress (preferred);
3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM. Could be combined with the
'auroral response to magnetosphere' observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON01
Start UTC: 2007-02-24T00:40:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring, Pele on limb; 02/23/07 05:42 -
02/23/07 06:12
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC01
Start UTC: 2007-02-24T01:35:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON02
Start UTC: 2007-02-24T05:00:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring ; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON03
Start UTC: 2007-02-24T13:50:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring ; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_JAURORA01
Start UTC: 2007-02-24T23:00:00
Description: JUPITER; Lyman alpha/H3+ airglow map; LEISA N/S scan;
ALICE TTAG
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC02
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T00:00:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_JAURORA02
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T01:00:00
Description: JUPITER; Lyman alpha/H3+ airglow map; LEISA N/S scan;
ALICE TTAG
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC03
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T02:00:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON05
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T05:00:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring ; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC04
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T05:35:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON06
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T08:30:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring ; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_GECLIPSE01
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T09:00:00
Description: GANYMEDE; Eclipse; 02/25/07 09:35 Need to know how the
data taking is spread through the eclipse period.
Assume for now that this one and the next one can be
intermixed with potentially additional slews between Io
and Europa
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON07
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T14:55:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring ; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_CCOMP01
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T17:33:00
Description: CALLISTO; Spectrum vs. phase; 02/25/07 12:30 - 02/26/07
05:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM01
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T18:05:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 02/25/07 17:45 - 02/25/07 18:15
Sequence ID: JEAL_ECOMP01
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T18:35:00
Description: EUROPA; Anti-Jupiter side composition; 2/25/2007 12:00
- 2/26/07 08:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_IECLIPSE01
Start UTC: 2007-02-25T19:10:00
Description: IO; Io Eclipse; 02/25/07 19:34 - 02/25/07 19:34
Sequence ID: JEAL_IOCC01
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T04:05:00
Description: IO; Stellar occultation; 3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM. Could be
combined with the 'auroral response to magnetosphere'
observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_COCC01
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T07:13:00
Description: CALLISTO; Stellar occultation; 3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM.
Could be combined with the 'auroral response to
magnetosphere' observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_GCOMP02
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T08:09:00
Description: GANYMEDE; Gap Fill composition; 02/26/07 00:00 -
02/26/07 17:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISUNMON09
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T08:40:00
Description: IO; Approach monitoring ; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRESIR01
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T18:25:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage, composition; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ECOMP02
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T18:55:00
Description: EUROPA; Trailng side compostion; 02/26/07 13:00 -
02/27/07 00:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRES01
Start UTC: 2007-02-26T20:52:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage, Pele on limb; 02/26/07 19:52 -
02/26/07 21:52
Sequence ID: JEAL_COCC02
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T00:15:00
Description: CALLISTO; Stellar occultation; 3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM.
Could be combined with the 'auroral response to
magnetosphere' observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRES02
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T01:05:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC05
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T02:00:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM03
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T02:30:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 02/27/07 02:15 - 02/27/07 02:45
Sequence ID: JEAL_CCOMP02
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T04:50:00
Description: CALLISTO; Spectrum vs. phase; 02/26/07 23:00 - 02/27/07
12:15
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRESIR02
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T05:25:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage, composition; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EOCC01
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T06:50:00
Description: EUROPA; Stellar occultation; 3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM.
Could be combined with the 'auroral response to
magnetosphere' observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM04
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T07:15:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 02/27/07 06:45 - 02/27/07 07:15
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC06
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T07:50:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRES03
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T09:15:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_GBEST01
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T09:45:00
Description: GANYMEDE; Best resolution; 02/27/07 11:15 - 02/27/07
19:30
Sequence ID: JEAL_EECLIPSE01
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T10:24:00
Description: EUROPA; Eclipse; 02/27/07 10:36 Need to know how the
data taking is spread through the eclipse period.
Assume for now that this one and the next one can be
intermixed with potentially additional slews between Io
and Europa
Sequence ID: JEAL_IECLIPSE03
Start UTC: 2007-02-27T13:46:00
Description: IO; Io Eclipse; 2/27/07 14:10 Target so Alice and LEISA
integrations can be done with the same pointing.
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM05
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T01:00:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 02/27/07 21:15 - 02/27/07 21:45
Sequence ID: JEAL_EBEST01
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T01:13:00
Description: EUROPA; Best resolution ; 02/27/07 14:00 - 02/28/07
03:30
Sequence ID: JEAL_CBEST01
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T03:10:00
Description: CALLISTO; Spectrum vs. phase (best res.); 02/27/07 16:15
- 02/28/07 03:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRES04
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T03:50:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRESIR03
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T04:30:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage, composition; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IOCC02
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T05:20:00
Description: IO; Stellar occultation; 3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM. Could be
combined with the 'auroral response to magnetosphere'
observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_TUVSPEC02
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T10:10:00
Description: TORUS ANSA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRES05
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T11:00:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage- Prometheus on limb; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISHINE01
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T13:05:00
Description: IO; Jupiter shine; 02/28/07 12:00 - 02/28/07 14:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM06
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T13:40:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 02/28/07 13:15 - 02/28/07 13:45
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRES06
Start UTC: 2007-02-28T15:15:00
Description: IO; Hi-res coverage; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IHIRESIR04
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T00:25:00
Description: IO; Hi-res nightside- Pele on limb; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON01
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T02:25:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM07
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T03:30:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 03/01/07 05:15 - 03/01/07 05:45
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON02
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T04:20:00
Description: IO; High Phase Monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC08
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T04:50:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ETERM08
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T05:30:00
Description: EUROPA; Term Topography; 03/01/07 05:15 - 03/01/07 05:45
Sequence ID: JEAL_CUVSPEC03
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T05:50:00
Description: CALLISTO; Long UV integration; 2/25/07 12:00 - 3/3/07
12:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON03
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T07:30:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_TUVSPEC03
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T07:58:00
Description: TORUS ANSA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IECLIPSE04
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T08:25:00
Description: IO; Io Eclipse; 3/1/07 8:38 Target so Alice and LEISA
integrations can be done with the same pointing.
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON04
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T18:00:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_ISHINE02
Start UTC: 2007-03-01T22:00:00
Description: IO; Jupiter shine; 03/01/07 21:00 - 03/01/07 23:00
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON05
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T06:00:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring: Tvashtar on limb; Timing
flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC09
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T07:55:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON06
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T08:20:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC10
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T09:10:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON07
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T11:18:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON08
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T14:00:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC11
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T14:20:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON09
Start UTC: 2007-03-02T23:50:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC12
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T01:40:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_IECLIPSE05
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T04:00:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_JAURORA03
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T06:30:00
Description: JUPITER; Lyman alpha/H3+ airglow map; LEISA N/S scan;
ALICE TTAG
Sequence ID: JEAL_JAURORA04
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T07:30:00
Description: JUPITER; Lyman alpha/H3+ airglow map; LEISA N/S scan;
ALICE TTAG
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON11
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T08:15:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_JAURORA05
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T08:40:00
Description: JUPITER; Lyman alpha/H3+ airglow map; LEISA N/S scan;
ALICE TTAG
Sequence ID: JEAL_JAURORA06
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T09:30:00
Description: JUPITER; Lyman alpha/H3+ airglow map; LEISA N/S scan;
ALICE TTAG
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON12
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T10:15:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON13
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T12:25:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC13
Start UTC: 2007-03-03T12:50:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_INITEMON14
Start UTC: 2007-03-04T00:20:00
Description: IO; High phase monitoring; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_EUVSPEC14
Start UTC: 2007-03-04T11:30:00
Description: EUROPA; UV spectra; Timing flexible
Sequence ID: JEAL_GECLIPSE02
Start UTC: 2007-03-04T12:50:00
Description: GANYMEDE; Eclipse; 03/04/07 12:50 - 03/04/07 12:50
Sequence ID: JEAL_GOCC01
Start UTC: 2007-03-04T17:15:00
Description: GANYMEDE; Stellar occultation; 3/4/2007 7:40:00 PM.
Could be combined with the 'auroral response to
magnetosphere' observation.
Sequence ID: JEAL_JALICECAL02
Start UTC: 2007-03-07T16:00:00
Description: EARTH; Will be moved to coincide with a DSN pass in this
time-frame/ Alice SOC door opening
Sequence ID: JEAL_SALICECAL01
Start UTC: 2007-03-10T16:00:00
Description: STAR; Alice - SOC occultation test
For the list of observations and their parameters, refer to
the data set index table (typically INDEX.TAB & CUMINDEX.TAB,
initially in the /INDEX/ area of the data set).
Time
====
There are several time systems, or units, in use in this dataset:
New Horizons spacecraft MET (Mission Event Time or Mission Elapsed
Time), UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), and TDB Barycentric
Dynamical Time.
This section will give a summary description of the relationship
between these time systems. For a complete explanation of these
time systems the reader is referred to the documentation
distributed with the NAIF/SPICE toolkit from the NAIF PDS node.
The most common time unit associated with the data is is the
spacecraft MET. MET is a 32-bit counter on the New Horizons
spacecraft that runs at a rate of about one increment per second
starting from a value of zero at
19.January, 2006 18:08:02 UTC
or
JD2453755.256337 TDB.
The leapsecond adjustment (DELTA_ET = ET - UTC) over this dataset
is 65.184s.
The data labels for any given product in this dataset usually
contain at least one pair of common UTC and MET representations
of the time at the middle of the observation. Other portions
of the products, for example tables of data taken over periods
of up to a day or more, will only have the MET time associated
with a given row of the table.
For the data user's use in interpreting these times, a reasonable
approximation (+/- 1s) of the conversion between Julian Day (TDB)
and MET is as follows:
JD TDB = 2453755.256337 + ( MET / 86399.9998693 )
For more accurate calculations the reader is referred to the
NAIF/SPICE documentation as mentioned above.
Processing
==========
The data in this data set were created by a software data
processing pipeline on the Science Operation Center (SOC) at
the Southwest Research Institute (SWRI), Department of Space Studies.
This SOC pipeline assembled data as FITS files from raw telemetry
packets sent down by the spacecraft and populated the data labels
with housekeeping and engineering values, and computed geometry
parameters using SPICE kernels. The pipeline did not resample
the data.
Data
====
The observations in this data set are stored in data files using
standard Flexible Image Transport Sytem (FITS) format. Each FITS
file has a corresponding detached PDS label file, named according
to a common convention. The FITS files have image and/or table
extensions; see the PDS label plus the DOCUMENT files for a
description of these extensions and their contents.
This Data section comprises the following sub-topics:
- Filename/Product IDs
- CODMAC Level 2 ALICE data details
- Instrument description
- Visit Description, Visit Number, and Target in the Data Labels
- Unresolved Liens on the Data
Filename/Product IDs
--------------------
The filenames and product IDs of observations adhere to a
common convention e.g.
ALI_0123456789_0X0AB_ENG_1.FIT
^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^ ^^^ ^\__/
| | | | | ^^
| | | | | |
| | | | | +--File type (includes dot)
| | | | | - .FIT for FITS file
| | | | | - .LBL for PDS label
| | | | | - not part of product ID
| | | | |
| | | | +-- Version number from the SOC
| | | | (Science Operations Center)
| | | |
| | | +--ENG for CODMAC Level 2 data *
| | | SCI for CODMAC Level 3 data *
| | |
| | +--Application ID (ApID) of the telemetry data
| | packet from which the data come
| |
| +--MET (Mission Event Time) i.e. Spacecraft Clock
|
+--Instrument/observation designator
* For those datasets where the NH project is delivering
CODMAC Level 1 & 2 data (REX & PEPSSI), ENG and SCI apply
to CODMAC Level 1 & 2 data, respectively.
Instrument Instrument/observation designators ApIDs
=========== ================================== =============
ALICE ALI 0X4B0 - 0X4B3
* Not all values in this range are used
There are other ApIDs that contain housekeeping values and
other values. See the documentation for more details.
Here is a summary of the types of files generated by each APiD:
ApIDs Data product description
===== ========================
0x4b0 - ALICE Pixel List Lossless (CDH 1)
0x4b1 - ALICE Pixel List Packetized (CDH 1)
0x4b4 - ALICE Pixel List Lossless (CDH 2)
0x4b5 - ALICE Pixel List Packetized (CDH 2)
0x4b2 - ALICE Histogram Lossless (CDH 1)
0x4b3 - ALICE Histogram Packetized (CDH 1)
0x4b6 - ALICE Histogram Lossless (CDH 2)
0x4b7 - ALICE Histogram Packetized (CDH 2)
Instrument description
----------------------
Refer to the following files for a description of this instrument.
CATALOG
ALICE.CAT
DOCUMENTS
ALICE_SSR.*
NH_ALICE_V###_TI.TXT (### is a version number)
SOC_INST_ICD.*
Visit Description, Visit Number, and Target in the Data Labels
---------------------------------------------------------------
The observation sequences were defined in Science Activity
Planning (SAP) documents, and grouped by Visit Description and
Visit Number. The SAPs are spreadsheets with one Visit Description
& Number per row. A nominal target is also included on each row
and included in the data labels, but does not always match with the
TARGET_NAME field's value in the data labels. In some cases, the
target was designated as RA,DEC pointing values in the form
``RADEC=123.45,-12.34'' indicating Right Ascension and Declination,
in degrees, of the target from the spacecraft in the Earth
Equatorial J2000 inertial reference frame. This indicates either
that the target was either a star, or that the target's ephemeris
was not loaded into the spacecraft's attitude and control system
which in turn meant the spacecraft could not be pointed at the
target by a body identifier and an inertial pointing value had to
be specified as Right Ascension and Declination values. The PDS
standards do not allow putting a value like RADEC=... in the PDS
TARGET_NAME keyword's value; in those cases the PDS TARGET_NAME
value is set to CALIBRATION.
Unresolved Liens on the Data
----------------------------
None exist at the present time.
Ancillary Data
==============
The geometry items included in the data labels were computed
using the SPICE kernels archived in the New Horizons SPICE
data set, NH-X-SPICE-6-JUPITER-V1.0.
Reference Frame
===============
Geometric Parameter Reference Frame
-----------------------------------
Earth Mean Equator and Vernal Equinox of J2000 (EMEJ2000) is the
inertial reference frame used to specify observational geometry
items provided in the data labels. Geometric parameters are based
on best available SPICE data at time of data creation.
Epoch of Geometric Parameters
-----------------------------
All geometric parameters provided in the data labels were
computed at the epoch midway between the START_TIME and
STOP_TIME label fields.
Software
========
The observations in this data set are in standard FITS format
with PDS labels, and can be viewed by a number of PDS-provided
and commercial programs. For this reason no special software is
provided with this data set.
Contact Information
===================
For any questions regarding the data format of the archive,
contact the person whose PDS_USER_ID is ASTERN
as described in PERSONNEL.CAT.
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