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MMS 2 Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) Ambient Electron Flux, Projection Method 1 (PM2), Level 2 (L2), Survey Mode, 31.25 ms Data
MMS2_EDI_SRVY_L2_AMB-PM2
https://doi.org/10.48322/wd92-1389
2023-03-04T12:34:56.789
2021-04-27T15:38:11
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2022-08-04T12:34:56.789
Added DOI and PublicationInfo minted by LFB, updated the RepositoryID, updated the SPDF MetadataContact Person to Robert M. Candey, metadata updated to SPASE 2.4.1, reviewed by LFB 20220803
2023-03-04T12:34:56.789
Standardized the ResourceName Format, Set AlternateName equal to the ProductKey, Revised the Acknowledgement, PublicationInfo Authors, and Contact Person list per request of the MMS EDI team, metadata updated to SPASE 2.5.0, reviewed by LFB 20230304
Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) Ambient Survey, Level 2, 0.03125 s Data (32 samples/s). EDI has two scientific data acquisition modes, called electric field mode and ambient mode. In electric field mode, two coded electron beams are emitted such that they return to the detectors after one or more gyrations in the ambient magnetic and electric field. The firing directions and times-of-flight allow the derivation of the drift velocity and electric field. In ambient mode, the electron beams are not used. The detectors with their large geometric factors and their ability to adjust the field of view quickly allow continuous sampling of ambient electrons at a selected pitch angle and fixed but selectable energy. To find the beam directions that will hit the detector, EDI sweeps each beam in the plane perpendicular to B at a fixed angular rate of 0.22 °/ms until a signal has been acquired by the detector. Once signal has been acquired, the beams are swept back and forth to stay on target. Beam detection is not determined from the changes in the count-rates directly, but from the square of the beam counts divided by the background counts from ambient electrons, i.e., from the square of the instantaneous signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). This quantity is computed from data provided by the correlator in the Gun-Detector Electronics that also generates the coding pattern imposed on the outgoing beams. If the squared SNR ratio exceeds a threshold, this is taken as evidence that the beam is returning to the detector. The thresholds for SNR are chosen dependent on background fluxes. They represent a compromise between getting false hits (induced by strong variations in background electron fluxes) and missing true beam hits. The basic software loop that controls EDI operations is executed every 2 ms. As the times when the beams hit their detectors are neither synchronized with the telemetry nor equidistant, EDI data have no fixed time-resolution. Data are reported in telemetry slots. In Survey, using the standard packing mode 0, there are eight telemetry slots per second and Gyn Detector Unit (GDU). The last beam detected during the previous slot will be reported in the current slot. If no beam has been detected, the data quality will be set to zero. In Burst telemetry there are 128 slots per second and GDU. The data in each slot consists of information regarding the beam firing directions (stored in the form of analytic gun deflection voltages), times-of-flight (if successfully measured), quality indicators, time stamps of the beam hits, and some auxiliary correlator-related information. Whenever EDI is not in electron drift mode, it uses its ambient electron mode. The mode has the capability to sample at either 90 degrees pitch angle or at 0/180 degrees (field aligned), or to alternate between 90 degrees and field aligned with selectable dwell times. While all options have been demonstrated during the commissioning phase, only the field aligned mode has been used in the routine operations phase. The choices for energy are 250 eV, 500 eV, and 1 keV. The two detectors, which are facing opposite hemispheres, are looking strictly into opposite directions, so while one detector is looking along B the other is looking antiparallel to B (corresponding to pitch angles of 180 and 0 degrees, respectively). The two detectors switch roles every half spin of the spacecraft as the tip of the magnetic field vector spins outside the field of view of one detector and into the field of view of the other detector. Starting January 4, 2016, the anodes were chosen such that the projection of the magnetic field vector was best aligned with the center of the first (that is, outer) of the four anodes. This provides coverage of a larger range of pitch angles in general. Data taken in this configuration are identified by the term "amb-pm2" in the data product names. In the burst data where four channels (corresponding to the four adjacent sensor anode pads) are sampled per GDU, channel 1 represents best the pitch angle of 0 degrees (or 180 degrees). The EDI instrument paper can be found at: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11214-015-0182-7. The EDI instrument data products guide can be found at https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/datasets/fields/.
Please acknowledge R.B. Torbert, M.R. Argall, and J.L. Burch for use of these data
Torbert, Roy, B.; Argall, Matthew, R.; Burch, James, L.
2022-01-01T00:00:00
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None
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Calibrated
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Epoch Time
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Epoch Time Tags for Electron Flux and Trajectories Data, Terrestrial Time 2000 (TT2000)
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Epoch Time Tags for EDU Support Data, Terrestrial Time 2000 (TT2000)
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Sorts 0 degree Flux Counts by Gun Detector Unit
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_gdu_180_srvy_l2
Sorts 180 degree Flux Counts by Gun Detector Unit
PT0.03125S
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1
2
255
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_flux1_0_srvy_l2
Flux for Electrons with Trajectories given by traj1_0
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1e4>m^-2 s^-1
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_flux1_0_delta_srvy_l2
Error for flux1 0 degree Pitch Angle Electron Flux
PT0.03125S
cm^-2 s^-1
1e4>m^-2 s^-1
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_flux1_180_delta_srvy_l2
Error for flux1 180 degree Pitch Angle Electron Flux
PT0.03125S
cm^-2 s^-1
1e4>m^-2 s^-1
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_traj1_gse_0_srvy_l2
Trajectory of flux1 0 degree Pitch Angle Electrons in Geocentric Solar Ecliptic (GSE) Cartesian Coordinates
Trajectories are given as unit vectors in spherical coordinates, with phi (theta) representing the azimuthal (polar) directions, in the indicated coordinate system. They are opposite to the nominal look-direction of the instrument. Errors represent an omni-directional error. For more details about errors, contact the EDI instrument team.
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_traj1_gse_180_srvy_l2
Trajectory of flux1 180 degree Pitch Angle Electrons in Geocentric Solar Ecliptic (GSE) Cartesian Coordinates
Trajectories are given as unit vectors in spherical coordinates, with phi (theta) representing the azimuthal (polar) directions, in the indicated coordinate system. They are opposite to the nominal look-direction of the instrument. Errors represent an omni-directional error. For more details about errors, contact the EDI instrument team.
PT0.03125S
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Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_traj1_gsm_0_srvy_l2
Trajectory of flux1 0 degree Pitch Angle Electrons in Geocentric Solar Magnetospheric (GSM) Cartesian Coordinates
Trajectories are given as unit vectors in spherical coordinates, with phi (theta) representing the azimuthal (polar) directions, in the indicated coordinate system. They are opposite to the nominal look-direction of the instrument. Errors represent an omni-directional error. For more details about errors, contact the EDI instrument team.
PT0.03125S
degree
0.0174532925>rad
Spherical
GSM
TimeSeries
F9.4
LinearScale
2
Phi
1
Theta
2
-180.0
180.0
-1.0e+31
Electron
ArrivalDirection
Electron Trajectory 1, 180 degree Pitch Angle (GSM)
Time series defined by using: EPOCH
mms2_edi_traj1_gsm_180_srvy_l2
Trajectory of flux1 180 degree Pitch Angle Electrons in Geocentric Solar Magnetospheric (GSM) Cartesian Coordinates
Trajectories are given as unit vectors in spherical coordinates, with phi (theta) representing the azimuthal (polar) directions, in the indicated coordinate system. They are opposite to the nominal look-direction of the instrument. Errors represent an omni-directional error. For more details about errors, contact the EDI instrument team.
PT0.03125S
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0.0174532925>rad
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