Data Set Information
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| DATA_SET_NAME |
NEW HORIZONS ALICE POST-LAUNCH CHECKOUT V2.0
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| DATA_SET_ID |
NH-X-ALICE-3-LAUNCH-V2.0
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| DATA_SET_TERSE_DESCRIPTION |
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| DATA_SET_DESCRIPTION |
Data Set Overview : This data set contains Calibrated data taken by New Horizons Alice UV Spectrograph instrument during the LAUNCH mission phase. During the Post-Launch mission phase, Alice ran three sets of activities: Alice-100 +++++++++ Initial instrument turn on, spacecraft interface testing, and airglow aperture door unlatch and verification. Alice-200 +++++++++ Full airglow aperture functionality, first standard wake-up and decontamination followed by detector door opening, then first time interactive activation of both high voltage power supplies, and first light Lyman-alpha sky background acquisition through the airglow aperture. Alice-300 +++++++++ Airglow pointing and calibration, starting with a standard wakeup and decontamination followed by airglow pointing and flux calibrations on two standard stars (gamma Grus and rho Leo). 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 LAUNCH phase of the New Horizons Mission : Sequence ID: COAL_001 Start UTC: 2006-03-01T00:00:00 Start SCLK: 1/0003477117:33573 Description: Turn-on; Program memory; Command & Telemetry interfaces Sequence ID: COAL_002 Start UTC: 2006-05-01T00:00:00 Start SCLK: 1/0008747517:32339 Description: Mode checks; Stim pixel; 24h optical heater decontamination HVPS activation; Dark & Sky glow images (pixel list & histogram mode Sequence ID: COAL_003 Start UTC: 2006-09-01T00:00:00 Start SCLK: 1/0019374717:31402 Description: Pointing; AGC sensitivity Sequence ID: COAL_004 Start UTC: 2006-11-01T00:00:00 Start SCLK: 1/0024645117:31148 Description: Solar occultation aperture 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 - Other sources of information useful in interpreting these Data - CODMAC Level 3 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 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 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 along with the instrument designator that go with each ApID: ApIDs Data product description/Prefix(es) : : 0x4b0 - ALICE Pixel List Lossless (CDH 1)/ALI 0x4b1 - ALICE Pixel List Packetized (CDH 1)/ALI 0x4b4 - ALICE Pixel List Lossless (CDH 2)/ALI 0x4b5 - ALICE Pixel List Packetized (CDH 2)/ALI 0x4b2 - ALICE Histogram Lossless (CDH 1)/ALI 0x4b3 - ALICE Histogram Packetized (CDH 1)/ALI 0x4b6 - ALICE Histogram Lossless (CDH 2)/ALI 0x4b7 - ALICE Histogram Packetized (CDH 2)/ALI Other sources of information useful in interpreting these Data -------------------------------------------------------------- Refer to the following files for more information about these data NH Trajectory table: /DOCUMENT/NH_TRAJECTORY.* ALICE Field Of View definitions: /DOCUMENT/NH_FOV.* /DOCUMENT/NH_ALICE_V###_TI.TXT 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-LAUNCH-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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| DATA_SET_RELEASE_DATE |
2009-03-04T00:00:00.000Z
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| START_TIME |
2006-01-19T12:00:00.000Z
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| STOP_TIME |
2007-01-01T12:00:00.000Z
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| MISSION_NAME |
NEW HORIZONS
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| MISSION_START_DATE |
2006-01-19T12:00:00.000Z
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| MISSION_STOP_DATE |
N/A (ongoing)
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| TARGET_NAME |
CALIBRATION
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| TARGET_TYPE |
CALIBRATION
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| INSTRUMENT_HOST_ID |
NH
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| INSTRUMENT_NAME |
ALICE ULTRAVIOLET IMAGING SPECTROGRAPH
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| INSTRUMENT_ID |
ALICE
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| INSTRUMENT_TYPE |
SPECTROGRAPH
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| NODE_NAME |
Small Bodies
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| ARCHIVE_STATUS |
ARCHIVED
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| CONFIDENCE_LEVEL_NOTE |
Confidence Level Overview : During the processing of the data in preparation for delivery with this volume, the packet data associated with each observation were used only if they passed a rigorous verification process including standard checksums. In addition, raw (Level 2) observation data for which adequate contemporary housekeeping and other ancillary data are not available are not reduced to calibrated (Level 3) data. This issue is raised here to explain why some data products in the raw data set, NH-X-ALICE-2-LAUNCH-V2.0, do not have corresponding data products in the calibrated data set, NH-X-ALICE-3-LAUNCH-V2.0. Review : The data have been reviewed and validated by the instrument team members, as well as by SOC personnel. ALICE updates for Data Sets V2.0 : ALICE V2.0 data are processed using an improved effective area calibration, and the deadtime correction of histogram files now uses countrate data to account for intra-exposure changes in source countrate.
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| CITATION_DESCRIPTION |
Stern, A., NEW HORIZONS ALICE POST-LAUNCH CHECKOUT V2.0, NH-X-ALICE-3-LAUNCH-V2.0, NASA Planetary Data System, 2007.
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| ABSTRACT_TEXT |
This data set contains Calibrated data taken by the New Horizons Alice UV Spectrograph instrument during the post-launch checkout mission phase.
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| PRODUCER_FULL_NAME |
JOSEPH PETERSON
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| SEARCH/ACCESS DATA |
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