STEREO PLASTIC Instrument Resources

Level 1 Data Access

o Level 1 Data (STEREO A and B):

All Level 1 is available in CDF format through NASA's Stereo Science Center:

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/data/ins_data/plastic/

Software and documentation for the Level 1 data:

http://stereo-ssc.nascom.nasa.gov/software.shtml

o Housekeeping Data (STEREO A and B):

Pre-launch Browser

Post-launch Browser (internal use)

BROWSE DATA

NOTE: Data provided are for purpose of identifying interesting event periods. The data are browse quality (non-validated).

If used in presentations or publications, please acknowledge STEREO PLASTIC and NASA Contract NAS5-00132. For reporting purposes, we request bibliography information for any presentation, publication, etc., using these data. (Please send information on the use of this data to the PLASTIC PI, A.B. Galvin, toni.galvin@unh.edu)

o PROTON BULK PARAMETERS (Speed, Density, Thermal speed)

o STEREO A (Link to Data Sets )

o STEREO B (Link to Data Sets )

o Weekly Stack Plots (Full Resolution)

Stack Plots are a time series of the solar wind full resolution rate. Each horizontal trace is one minute of data. There are 1440 sweeps per day, and 7 days are shown per stack plot. As the solar wind speed changes, the location of the peak in ESA Step (corresponding to an E/Q setting) changes. Sometimes seen to the right of the prominent proton peak is a smaller profile, representing solar wind helium (He+²). Files provide plots in both linear and log densities.