Fundamental Technologies Voyager LECP Pages

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1. Overview of the Voyager Mission and the LECP Instrument
2. Voyager LECP Data Analysis Handbook
   • Instrument and Investigation Descriptions and Images
     • The LECP Experiment on the Voyager Spacecraft, Space Science Reviews paper by Krimigis et al.
     • Mariner-Jupiter-Saturn Low Energy Charged Particle Experiment, paper by Peletier et al. from IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science
     • Image of the Voyager spacecraft
   • Engineering Design
     • Summary of Detector Tests at Teledyne-Isotopes Using the Pioneer F-08 RTG
     • OPM Weight and Power Estimate
     • High Intensity Detector System for the Study of the Magnetospheres of Outer Planets
     • MJS-77 Science Capability Review of July 29-30, 1975
     • MJS77 Requirements for FDS-SE Processing and Display of LECP Related Data During System Test
     • LECP Engineering Handbook online at the Applied Physics Laboratory
   • Science Planning Documents
     • Low Energy Charged Particle Measurements in the Environment of the Outer Planets and in the Interplanetary and Interstellar Medium (preproposal)
     • Energetic Particle Measurements on the Outer Planet Missions (preliminary EPT report)
   • Data File Descriptions
     • Experiment Data Record
       • Definitions; General Information
       • Cruise 1
       • Cruise 2
       • Cruise 3
       • Cruise 4
       • Cruise 5
       • Cruise 6
       • Cruise 7 (Cruise 5a)
     • Master Rate (Tape) File Descriptions
       • Definitions; General Information
       • Cruise 1, 2, 3, 4, 6
       • Cruise 5a
       • Far Encounter
       • Near Encounter
     • Master Pulse Tape
       • LECP MPT Data Record and Supplemental Data Record
       • LECP MPT Record Format Header
       • Description of MPT Header Variables
       • LECP MPT Record Format Data Array
       • PHA Readouts
       • Definition of PHA Definition Words
       • PHA Enable Conditions
       • LECP MRT Record Format Header
     • Flux Average Tape
       • FAT Header
       • FAT Data Block
     • Super Average Tape
       • Overall Block Organization
       • Block 1: Headers
       • Block 2: Count Rates
       • Blocks 3 & 4: Uncertainties of Rates and Sample Numbers
       • Block 5: Rate Ratios
       • Block 6: Composition Ratios
       • Block 7: Angular Ratios
       • Block 8: Rate Ratio Uncertainties
       • Block 9: Composition Ratio Uncertainties
       • Block 10: Angular Ratio Uncertainties
       • Block 11: Rate Correction Factors
       • Block 12: Composition Correction Factors
       • Block 13: Fluxes
       • Block 14: Uncertainties of Fluxes
       • Block 15: Angular Resolution
     • Planetary Data System Files
       • SCAN
       • STEP Record Definition
       • STEP Flux Record Definition
       • STEP Rate Record Definition
     • Supplementary Experiment Data Records
       • SEDR Software Interface Specification
       • Fixed Instrument SEDR File Layout
       • Fixed Instrument SEDR Header Record Format
       • Navigation Data Block Format for Launch Period
       • Navigation Data Block Format for Cruise Periods
       • Navigation Data Block Format for Jupiter Encounter
       • Navigation Data Block Format for Saturn Encounter
       • Pointing Vector Data Block Format
       • Fixed Instrument SEDR Format, Uranus Encounter Navigation Block
       • Additional trajectory information at Goddard Space Flight Center
     • NAVMAG Format
   • Calibrations and Channel Definitions
     • Passbands and Geometric Factors for Voyager 1 LECP (V1NEWGEN)
     • Passbands and Geometric Factors for Voyager 2 LECP (V2NEWGEN)
     • Voyager Ion Passbands in LEMPA Detector a
     • Delta Detector Characteristics - Result of Dead-Layer Test on Spare b Detector
     • Delta Detector Characteristics - Beam Calibration for Delta Detector
     • LEPT Logic and PHA Design
     • LECP Calibration and Discriminator Values
     • Detector Identification and Characteristics - Spare LECP Unit
     • Detector Identification and Characteristics - LEPT Subsystem
     • Time Constants for V1 LECP
     • Calculations of Species Passbands with "Margie" - Voyager 1 Proof Test Model
     • Calculations of Species Passbands with "Margie" - Voyager 2 Proof Test Model
     • The Voyager LECP Pulse Height Analyzer (EME-77-159)
     • Specification - LECP Pulse Height Analyzer (LECP-013-74)
     • PHA Identification Codes
     • Methods of Analysis for Voyager LECP Data (68 page pdf document, online at the Univ. of Maryland (master's thesis by M. E. Hill)
     • Sampling Formats
     • Command Words
     • LECP Calibration Source Rates
     • Rate Tests
     • Random Pulser Tests
     • Geometric Factors for Voyager LECP
   • Instrument Modeling Reports
     • An Analysis of the Performance of the Magnetic Deflection System in the Voyager Low Energy Charged Particle Experiment, master's thesis by Sheela Shodhan
     • LEMPA Aperture Notes and Drawings
   • In-flight Calibration Studies
     • Study of Voyager 2 LECP Responses in Partial Exposure ("Chicken") Mode
     • Hot Plasma Parameters of Jupiter's Inner Magnetosphere, JGR paper by Mauk et al.
     • Detector Channel Summary
     • Saturn-Derived Calibrations
     • Saturn Corrections
   • Analyzed Observations
     • Voyager Saturn Figures
       • Counts/Second Plots
       • Phase Space Density Plots
     • Voyager Saturn Studies
   • Saturn Operations
     • Voyager 1 - Near Encounter Science Sequencing
     • Saturn Science Sequence Development
     • Science Link Directory
     • LECP Stepping During Saturn Encounter by Voyager 1
   • List of Tables
   • List of Figures
   • Ground Processing of Voyager Data
3. Voyager LECP Data Archives
4. Publications
5. Related Information at Other Sites

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Last modified 4/29/08, Tizby Hunt-Ward
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