Data Set Overview : THIS BROWSE DATA CONSISTS OF RESAMPLED DATA FROM THE LOW ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLE (LECP) EXPERIMENT ON VOYAGER 2 WHILE THE SPACECRAFT WAS IN THE VICINITY OF JUPITER. THIS INSTRUMENT MEASURES THE INTENSITIES OF IN-SITU CHARGED PARTICLES (>26 KEV ELECTRONS AND >30 KEV IONS) WITH VARIOUS LEVELS OF DISCRIMINATION BASED ON ENERGY, MASS SPECIES, AND ANGULAR ARRIVAL DIRECTION. A SUBSET OF ALMOST 100 LECP CHANNELS ARE INCLUDED WITH THIS DATA SET. THE LECP DATA ARE GLOBALLY CALIBRATED TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE (SEE BELOW) AND THEY ARE TIME AVERAGED TO ABOUT 15 MINUTE TIME INTERVALS WITH THE EXACT BEGINNING AND ENDING TIMES FOR THOSE INTERVALS MATCHING THE LECP INSTRUMENTAL CYCLE PERIODS (THE ANGULAR SCANNING PERIODS). THE LECP INSTUMENT HAS A ROTATING HEAD FOR OBTAINING ANGULAR ANISOTROPY MEASUREMENTS OF THE MEDIUM ENERGY CHARGED PARTICLES THAT IT MEASURES. THE CYCLE TIME FOR THE ROTATION IF VARIABLE, BUT DURING ENCOUNTERS IT IS ALWAYS FASTER THAN 15 MINUTES. FOR THIS BROWSE DATA SET ONLY SCAN AVERAGE DATA IS GIVEN (NO ANGULAR INFORMATION). THE DATA IS IN THE FORM OF 'RATE' DATA WHICH HAS NOT BEEN CONVERTED TO THE USUAL PHYSICAL UNITS. THE REASON IS THAT SUCH A CONVERSION WOULD DEPEND ON UNCERTAIN DETERMINATIONS SUCH AS THE MASS SPECIES OF THE PARTICLES AND THE LEVEL OF BACKGROUND. BOTH MASS SPECIES AND BACKGROUND ARE GENERALLY DETERMINED FROM CONTEXT DURING THE STUDY OF PARTICULAR REGIONS. TO CONVERT 'RATE' TO 'INTENSITY' FOR A PARTICULAR CHANNEL ONE PERFORMS THE FOLLOWING TASKS: 1) DECIDE ON THE LEVEL OF BACKGROUND CONTAMINATION AND SUBTRACT THAT OFF THE GIVEN RATE LEVEL. BACKGROUND IS TO BE DETERMINED FROM CONTEXT AND FROM MAKING USE OF SECTOR 8 RATES (SECTOR 8 HAS A 2 mm AL SHIELD COVERING IT). 2) DIVIDE THE BACKGROUND CORRECTED RATE BY THE CHANNEL GEOMETRIC FACTOR AND BY THE ENERGY BANDPASS OF THE CHANNEL. THE GEOMETRIC FACTOR IS FOUND IN ENTRY 'channel_geometric_ factor' AS ASSOCIATED WITH EACH CHANNEL 'channel_id'. TO DETERMINE THE ENERGY BANDPASS, ONE MUST JUDGE THE MASS SPECIES OF THE OF THE DETECTED PARTICLES (FOR IONS BUT NOT FOR ELECTRONS). THE ENERGY BAND PASSES ARE GIVEN IN ENTRIES 'minimum_instrument_parameter' and 'maximum_instrument_ parameter' IN TABLE 'FPLECPENERGY', AND ARE GIVEN IN THE FORM 'ENERGY/NUCLEON'. FOR CHANNELS THAT BEGIN THEIR NAMES WITH THE DESIGNATIONS 'CH' THESE BANDPASSES CAN BE USED ON MASS SPECIES THAT ARE ACCEPTED INTO THAT CHANNEL (SEE ENTRIES 'minimum_instrument_parameter' and 'maximum_instrument_ parameter' IN TABLE 'FPLECPCHANZ', WHICH GIVE THE MINIMUM AND MAXIMUM 'Z' VALUE ACCEPTED -- THESE ENTRIES ARE BLANK FOR ELECTRON CHANNELS). FOR OTHER CHANNELS THE GIVEN BANDPASS REFERS ONLY TO THE LOWEST 'Z' VALUE ACCEPTED. THE BANDPASSES FOR OTHER 'Z' VALUES ARE NOT ALL KNOWN, BUT SOME ARE GIVEN IN THE LITERATURE (E.G. KRIMIGIS ET AL., 1979). THE FINAL PRODUCT OF THESE INSTRUCTIONS WILL BE THE PARTICLE INTENSITY WITH THE UNITS: COUNTS/(CM**2.STR.SEC.KEV). SOME CHANNELS ARE SUBJECT TO SERIOUS CONTAMINATIONS, AND MANY OF THESE CONTAMINATIONS CANNOT BE REMOVED EXCEPT WITH A REGION-BY-REGION ANALYSIS, WHICH HAS NOT BEEN DONE FOR THIS DATA. THUS, TO USE THIS DATA IT IS ABSOLUTELY VITAL THAT THE CONTAMINATION TYPES ('contamination_id' , 'contamination_desc') AND THE LEVELS OF CONTAMINATION ('data_quality_id' CORRESPONDING TO THE DEFINITIONS 'data_quality_desc') BE CAREFULLY EXAMINED FOR ALL REGIONS OF STUDY. A DEAD TIME CORRECTION PROCEDURE HAS BEEN APPLIED IN AN ATTEMPT TO CORRECT THE LINEAR EFFECTS OF DETECTOR OVERDRIVE (PULSE-PILEUP). THIS PROCEDURE DOES NOT FIX SEVERELY OVERDRIVEN DETECTORS. A PROCEDURE IS AVAILABLE FOR CORRECTING VOYAGER 2 LECP ELECTRON CONTAMINATION OF LOW ENERGY ION CHANNELS, BUT ITS EFFECTIVENESS HAS BEEN EVALUATED ONLY FOR THE URANUS DATA SET. THUS, CORRECTIONS U HAVE BEEN APPLIED ONLY TO THE URANUS DATA SET.   Processing Level Id : 4 Software Flag : Y Processing Start Time : 1988-08-01   Parameters : Sampling Parameter Name : TIME Data Set Parameter Name : ELECTRON RATE Sampling Parameter Resolution : 15.000000 Sampling Parameter Interval : 15.000000 Data Set Parameter Unit : COUNTS/SECOND Noise Level : 0.000000 Sampling Parameter Unit : MINUTE   Description ----------- A measured parameter equaling the number of electrons A measured parameter equaling the number of ions striking a hitting a particle detector per specified accumulation particle detector per specified accumulation interval. The interval. The counted electrons may or may not be counted ions may or may not be discriminated as to their energies (e.g. energy/nucleon or energy/charge between E1 discriminated as to their energies (e.g. greater than E1, or between E1 and E2). and E2 or greater than E1) and/or as to their ion composition (atomic number Z or mass number greater than Z1 or M1, or between Z1 and z2 or M1 and M2).   Source Instrument Parameters : Instrument Host ID : VG2 Data Set Parameter Name : ION RATE Instrument Parameter Name : ION RATE Important Instrument Parameters : 1  Instrument Host ID : VG2 Data Set Parameter Name : ELECTRON RATE Instrument Parameter Name : ELECTRON RATE Important Instrument Parameters : 1   Processing :  Processing History ------------------ Source Data Set ID : VG2-J-LECP-2- Software : PFAT:VGER Product Data Set ID : VG2-J-LECP-4-BR-15MIN   Software 'PFAT:VGER' -------------------- Software Name : PFAT:VGER Software Type : PIN Software Release Date : N/A Node ID : N/A Cognizant Engineer : N/A Software Access Description : N/A

Overview : AT ALL TIMES DURING THIS PLANETARY ENCOUNTER THERE EXIST DATA IN THIS DATA SET THAT CAN BE RATED WITH THE HIGHEST CONFIDENCE LEVEL. HOWEVER, SOME OF THE CHANNELS OF DATA ARE CONTAMINATED BY VARIOUS KINDS AND VARIOUS LEVELS OF CONTAMINATIONS. IT IS THEREFORE IMPERATIVE, IN USING THIS DATA SET, THAT THE CONTAMINATION TABLES WITHIN THE CATALOG BE EXAMINED. ALSO, NOT ALL KINDS OF CONTAMINATION HAVE BEEN FULLY DOCUMENTED. WHEN IN DOUBT THE DATA SUPPLIER MUST BE CONTACTED.