SIMPLE = T / Standard FITS format BITPIX = 8 / Character information NAXIS = 0 / No image data array present EXTEND = T / Standard extensions OBJECT = 'P/HALLEY' / Object of investigation FILE-NUM= 089003 / File number DATE-OBS= '13/03/86' / Date of mid-observation TIME-OBS= '.98 ' / Mid-time of observation LONG-OBS= '999/99/99' / Longitude of observatory LAT-OBS = '+99/99/99' / Latitude of observatory DATE-REL= '01/07/90' / Date of release DISCIPLN= 'GIOTTO/DID' / Giotto DIDSY experiment data SYSTEM = '05009987' / Observation system OBSERVER= 'MCDONNELL,J.A.M/ET AL.' / Giotto DIDSY team (as A&A, 1987) SUBMITTR= 'GREEN,S.F/PANKIEWICZ,G.S' / Submitters to IHW SPEC-EVT= F / No special events inserted or deleted DAT-FORM= 'ASCII ' / Data in tabular ASCII form ORIGIN = 'UNIV.KENT,U.K' / Site at which tape was written DATE = '08/05/90' / Date tape was written COMMENT GIOTTO DUST IMPACT DETECTION SYSTEM (DIDSY) DATA COMMENT UNIT FOR SPACE SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF KENT, COMMENT CANTERBURY, KENT, CT2 7NR. COMMENT FILE 089 003 COMMENT MAIN SHIELD MOMENTUM SENSORS ON LARGE SECTOR COMMENT DID2/3 (INCLUDES ALL 4 MODES) COMMENT COMMENT ADD. OBS. ALEXANDER,W.M/BURTON,W.M/BUSSOLETTI,E/EVANS,G.C/ COMMENT ADD. OBS. EVANS,S.T/FIRTH,J.G/GRARD,R.J.L/GREEN,S.F/GRUN,E/ COMMENT ADD. OBS. HANNER,M.S/HUGHES,D.W/IGENBERGS,E/KISSEL,J/ COMMENT ADD. OBS. KUCZERA,H/LINDBLAD,B.A/LANGEVIN,Y/MANDEVILLE,J.C/ COMMENT ADD. OBS. NAPPO,S/PANKIEWICZ,G.S/PERRY,C.H/SCHWEHM,G.H/ COMMENT ADD. OBS. SEKANINA,Z/STEVENSON,T.J/TURNER,R.F/WEISHAUPT,U/ COMMENT ADD. OBS. WALLIS,M.K/ZARNECKI,J.C END XTENSION= 'TABLE ' / Table extension BITPIX = 8 / Character NAXIS = 2 / 2-D matrix NAXIS1 = 100 / Number of characters per row NAXIS2 = 3589 / Number of rows PCOUNT = 0 / No random parameters GCOUNT = 1 / Only one group TFIELDS = 15 / Number of fields per row EXTNAME = '3 DIDSY MSM2/3' / Name of file EXTVER = 4 / Extension version number TTYPE1 = 'HR ' / Ground received time (hr) TBCOL1 = 1 / Start in column 1 TFORM1 = 'I2 ' / Integer nn TUNIT1 = 'HOUR ' / Hours TTYPE2 = 'MIN ' / Ground received time (min) TBCOL2 = 4 / Start in column 4 TFORM2 = 'I2 ' / Integer nn TUNIT2 = 'MIN ' / Minutes TTYPE3 = 'SEC ' / Ground received time (sec) TBCOL3 = 7 / Start in column 7 TFORM3 = 'F4.1 ' / Real xx.x TUNIT3 = 'SEC ' / Seconds TTYPE4 = 'DISTANCE' / Cometocentric distance TBCOL4 = 12 / Start in column 12 TFORM4 = 'I6 ' / Integer nnnnnn TUNIT4 = 'KM ' / Kilometres TTYPE5 = 'FLAGS ' / Data processing flags - see history TBCOL5 = 19 / Start in column 19 TFORM5 = 'A5 ' / Character aaaaa TTYPE6 = 'MODE' / Operating mode - see comments TBCOL6 = 25 / Start in column 25 TFORM6 = 'I1 ' / Integer n TTYPE7 = 'MSM2/3 1 COUNTS' / MSM2/3 bin1 dead-time corrected counts TBCOL7 = 27 / Start in column 27 TFORM7 = 'E9.3 ' / Format TNULL7 = '-.900E+01' / Null value TTYPE8 = 'MSM2/3 1 FLUX' / Derived particle flux TBCOL8 = 37 / Start in column 37 TFORM8 = 'E9.3 ' / Format TUNIT8 = 'M-2.SEC-1' / Per square metre per second TNULL8 = '-.900E+01' / Null value TTYPE9 = 'MSM2/3 1 ERROR' / Statistical error from original counts TBCOL9 = 47 / Start in column 47 TFORM9 = 'I3 ' / Format TUNIT9 = '% ' / Percentage TNULL9 = '-9 ' / Null value TTYPE10 = 'MSM2/3 2 COUNTS' / MSM2/3 bin2 dead-time corrected counts TBCOL10 = 51 / Start in column 51 TFORM10 = 'E9.3 ' / Format TNULL10 = '-.900E+01' / Null value TTYPE11 = 'MSM2/3 2 FLUX' / Derived particle flux TBCOL11 = 61 / Start in column 61 TFORM11 = 'E9.3 ' / Format TUNIT11 = 'M-2.SEC-1' / Per square metre per second TNULL11 = '-.900E+01' / Null value TTYPE12 = 'MSM2/3 2 ERROR' / Statistical error from original counts TBCOL12 = 71 / Start in column 71 TFORM12 = 'I3 ' / Format TUNIT12 = '% ' / Percentage TNULL12 = '-9 ' / Null value TTYPE13 = 'MSM2/3 3 COUNTS' / MSM2/3 bin3 dead-time corrected counts TBCOL13 = 75 / Start in column 75 TFORM13 = 'E9.3 ' / Format TNULL13 = '-.900E+01' / Null value TTYPE14 = 'MSM2/3 3 FLUX' / Derived particle flux TBCOL14 = 85 / Start in column 85 TFORM14 = 'E9.3 ' / Format TUNIT14 = 'M-2.SEC-1' / Per square metre per second TNULL14 = '-.900E+01' / Null value TTYPE15 = 'MSM2/3 3 ERROR' / Statistical error from original counts TBCOL15 = 95 / Start in column 95 TFORM15 = 'I3 ' / Format TUNIT15 = '% ' / Percentage TNULL15 = '-9 ' / Null value COMMENT MODE OF OPERATION: COMMENT TWO SENSORS LOCATED ON LARGE SECTOR OF SHIELD COMMENT 0 SIGNAL ON DID2 OR DID3 COMMENT 1 SIGNAL ON DID2 AND DID3 COMMENT 2 SIGNAL ON DID2 ONLY COMMENT 3 SIGNAL ON DID3 ONLY COMMENT MASS THRESHOLDS: COMMENT QUOTED FLUXES ARE CUMULATIVE (FOR ALL MASSES > THRESHOLD B) COMMENT A) MOST SENSITIVE PART OF SENSOR COMMENT B) EFFECTIVE THRESHOLD (95% OF IMPACTS HAVE LARGER MASS COMMENT C) MOST PROBABLE MASS FOR DIFFERENTIAL DATA COMMENT MODE CHANNEL A B C COMMENT 0 1 1.7E-12 6.0E-12 4.0E-11 (KG) COMMENT 2 1.8E-11 6.3E-11 4.2E-10 COMMENT 3 1.7E-10 6.0E-10 3.6E-9 COMMENT 1 1 1.5E-10 5.3E-10 COMMENT 2 1 1.7E-12 6.0E-12 4.0E-11 COMMENT 2 1.8E-11 6.3E-11 4.1E-10 COMMENT 3 1.7E-10 6.0E-10 3.6E-9 COMMENT 3 1 3.4E-12 1.2E-11 7.0E-11 COMMENT 2 1.1E-10 3.9E-10 1.4E-9 COMMENT 3 4.6E-10 1.6E-9 5.4E-9 COMMENT EFFECTIVE AREA OF SENSOR DEPENDS ON MASS DISTRIBUTION INDEX ALPHA AND COMMENT DEFINED LIMITING MASS. TABLE FOR ALPHA 0.3-2.0 AND MASSES (B) BELOW. COMMENT HISTORY PROCESSING FLAGS RELATE TO PRODUCTION OF COUNTS FROM ORIGINAL MERGED HISTORY DATA TAPES. HISTORY DUE TO LOSS OF TELEMETRY CERTAIN DIDSY DATA BLOCKS WERE INCOMPLETE. HISTORY FLAGS INDICATE PROCESSING TO EXTRACT THE USEFUL DATA FROM THESE BLOCKS.HISTORY EACH OF FIVE FLAGS ARE SET TO * IF: HISTORY 1) INCOMPLETE DATA BLOCK HISTORY 2) NON-CONSECUTIVE BLOCK NUMBER IN DATA TRAIN HISTORY 3) BLOCK TIMING INCONSISTENT HISTORY 4) FRAME COUNT INCONSISTENT HISTORY 5) UNUSUAL FORMAT NUMBER IN FRAME INDICATING TELEMETRY BREAK HISTORY FLUXES CALCULATED ASSUMING ALPHA = 0.90. EFFECTIVE AREAS FOR OTHER HISTORY VALUES OF ALPHA: HISTORY MODE ALPHA CHANNEL1 CHANNEL2 CHANNEL3 HISTORY 0 0.3 1.002 0.869 0.680 HISTORY 0 0.4 0.815 0.697 0.544 HISTORY 0 0.5 0.674 0.571 0.451 HISTORY 0 0.6 0.566 0.476 0.383 HISTORY 0 0.7 0.481 0.403 0.332 HISTORY 0 0.8 0.414 0.345 0.291 HISTORY 0 0.9 0.360 0.300 0.259 HISTORY 0 1.0 0.317 0.264 0.233 HISTORY 0 1.1 0.281 0.234 0.211 HISTORY 0 1.2 0.252 0.210 0.193 HISTORY 0 1.3 0.228 0.190 0.178 HISTORY 0 1.4 0.208 0.174 0.165 HISTORY 0 1.5 0.191 0.161 0.154 HISTORY 0 1.6 0.177 0.150 0.144 HISTORY 0 1.7 0.165 0.140 0.136 HISTORY 0 1.8 0.155 0.133 0.129 HISTORY 0 1.9 0.146 0.126 0.124 HISTORY 0 2.0 0.139 0.121 0.119 HISTORY 1 0.3 1.177 HISTORY 1 0.4 1.037 HISTORY 1 0.5 0.933 HISTORY 1 0.6 0.854 HISTORY 1 0.7 0.794 HISTORY 1 0.8 0.749 HISTORY 1 0.9 0.714 HISTORY 1 1.0 0.688 HISTORY 1 1.1 0.670 HISTORY 1 1.2 0.657 HISTORY 1 1.3 0.650 HISTORY 1 1.4 0.648 HISTORY 1 1.5 0.650 HISTORY 1 1.6 0.657 HISTORY 1 1.7 0.667 HISTORY 1 1.8 0.681 HISTORY 1 1.9 0.699 HISTORY 1 2.0 0.721 HISTORY 2 0.3 0.809 0.718 0.524 HISTORY 2 0.4 0.637 0.578 0.423 HISTORY 2 0.5 0.515 0.479 0.355 HISTORY 2 0.6 0.427 0.406 0.306 HISTORY 2 0.7 0.361 0.349 0.268 HISTORY 2 0.8 0.311 0.304 0.238 HISTORY 2 0.9 0.272 0.268 0.214 HISTORY 2 1.0 0.240 0.239 0.194 HISTORY 2 1.1 0.215 0.215 0.178 HISTORY 2 1.2 0.194 0.195 0.164 HISTORY 2 1.3 0.177 0.179 0.152 HISTORY 2 1.4 0.163 0.165 0.142 HISTORY 2 1.5 0.152 0.153 0.134 HISTORY 2 1.6 0.142 0.144 0.127 HISTORY 2 1.7 0.134 0.136 0.121 HISTORY 2 1.8 0.127 0.129 0.116 HISTORY 2 1.9 0.121 0.123 0.112 HISTORY 2 2.0 0.117 0.119 0.108 HISTORY 3 0.3 0.621 0.396 0.254 HISTORY 3 0.4 0.470 0.318 0.199 HISTORY 3 0.5 0.371 0.270 0.169 HISTORY 3 0.6 0.304 0.237 0.149 HISTORY 3 0.7 0.257 0.212 0.136 HISTORY 3 0.8 0.223 0.193 0.126 HISTORY 3 0.9 0.197 0.178 0.118 HISTORY 3 1.0 0.177 0.166 0.113 HISTORY 3 1.1 0.162 0.156 0.108 HISTORY 3 1.2 0.150 0.148 0.104 HISTORY 3 1.3 0.140 0.141 0.101 HISTORY 3 1.4 0.132 0.135 0.099 HISTORY 3 1.5 0.126 0.130 0.097 HISTORY 3 1.6 0.121 0.126 0.095 HISTORY 3 1.7 0.116 0.123 0.094 HISTORY 3 1.8 0.113 0.121 0.093 HISTORY 3 1.9 0.110 0.119 0.093 HISTORY 3 2.0 0.108 0.118 0.092 END