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Calibrated VERSION 1.0
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Required Reading list
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Required Reading
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Almost all of the New Horizons instruments have complex modes of operation
and complex, multi-part data products; users who want to properly understand
these data should expect to spend a significant effort (at least a day per
instrument) reading about and researching the instrument, the data and the PDS
product formats. To support that, the data producer has provided the
following Required Reading list.
Required Reading Summary List (see Details below for suggested priority)
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In this file or in this directory (files):
Details (next subsection)
Data Filenames and Product IDs (E_FILENAMES.TXT)
Data directory naming convention (F_DIRECTORY.TXT)
Explanation of granularity (F_DIRECTORY.TXT)
Suggested FITS & PDS software (G_SOFTWARE.TXT)
PDS labels (H_PDS_LABELS.TXT;
Under the /DOCUMENT/ subdirectory:
SOC_INST_ICD.* Science Operations Center Interface Control Document
REX_SSR.* Space Science Review (SSR) Instrument paper
PAYLOAD_SSR.* Space Science Review (SSR) Payload paper
DOCINFO.TXT Summary of /DOCUMENT/ subdirectory
NH_MISSION_TRAJECTORY.* NH Trajectory table for mission
NH_TRAJECTORY.* NH Trajectory table for Jupiter Encounter
SEQ_REX_LAUNCH.* Sequence list for this data set
Under the /CATALOG/ subdirectory:
DATASET.CAT NH Data Set Catalog objects
NH.CAT NH Mission Catalog objects
NHSC.CAT NH SpaceCraft catalog objects
REX.CAT NH Instrument catalog objects
REF.CAT References to other documents
CATINFO.TXT Summary of /CATALOG/ subdirectory
Under the /CALIB/ subdirectory (if present):
CALINFO.TXT Summary of calibration files in /CALIB/ subdirectory
Details
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The information contained in all documents included with, and
referenced in, this archive, is an integral part of this archive.
Specifically, the information contained in the SOC Instrument
Interface Control Document (ICD), and in the documents submitted
for publication in Space Science Reviews in 2007, is crucial to
understanding the data in this archive. As such, the producers
of this archive have included the best possible version of these
documents with this archive.
* SOC Instrument Interface Control Document (AKA the ICD)
The ICD specifies the interfaces between the New Horizons
Science Operations Center (SOC) and the instrument pipeline, which
process data from raw to calibrated units. The ICD's purpose is to
define the various aspects of the interfaces in sufficient detail
to establish a clear understanding between the SOC and the
instrument team to allow for a parallel pipeline development.
This file is located in the /DOCUMENT/ directory of this
data set and its filename is SOC_INST_ICD.PDF. Other versions
of this file in different formats may be listed in SOC_INST_ICD.LBL.
In addition to mission-wide information (approximately six pages), the
ICD contains an entire section devoted to the details of the
REX instrument (~16 pages). The most important aids provided
to the user of this archive by the ICD are
* Descriptions of the data files that comprise the
data portion of this archive.
* Descriptions of the calibration methodology of the
REX instrument data.
* Overview descriptions of the REX instrument theory
and operations.
* References to more detailed documentation.
* REX Space Science Reviews documents (AKA SSR paper(s))
Scientific papers describing the New Horizons mission,
spacecraft, mission design, payload and instruments were submitted
to the publication Space Science Reviews in 2007 after the Jupiter
encounter; refer to the references catalog for full citations.
These files are located in the /DOCUMENT/ directory of this
data set.
The filename of the instrument SSR paper is REX_SSR.PDF;
other versions of this file are listed in REX_SSR.LBL.
The filename of the payload SSR paper is PAYLOAD_SSR.PDF;
other versions of this file are listed in PAYLOAD_SSR.LBL.
The REX instrument and payload overview SSR papers:
Tyler, G.L., et al., 2008 [TYLERETAL2008]
and
Weaver, H.A., et al., 2008 [WEAVERETAL2008],
provide details of the REX theory, design, ground testing
and calibration, operational considerations, and post-launch
checkout results.
Because of time and copyright restrictions, the SSR papers could not
be included in this archive in their peer-reviewed and published form.
However, Space Science Reviews did agree to allowing the submitted
versions of these papers to be included in this archive. This has
been done with the initial version of this archive as a convenience
to the user of this archive. However, it should be noted that:
There were changes made to the submitted papers before they
were published. Where any differences exist between the
submitted versions of these documents in this archive and the
final published versions, the final published versions are
considered authoritative, and it is up to the user of this
archive to assess if any such differences will affect their
use of this archive.
Other important documents are available in the following files:
NH Heliocentric Trajectory table for mission
/DOCUMENT/NH_MISSION_TRAJECTORY.*
REX beam pattern characterization:
/DOCUMENT/BEAM/BEAMINFO.TXT
Further pointers to important documents for this data set
are available in the following files:
/CATALOG/CATINFO.TXT
/CATALOG/REF.CAT
/DATA/DATAINFO.TXT (presence depends on mission-phase)
/DOCUMENT/DOCINFO.TXT
All reasonable efforts have been made to include the documents in
multiple formats in the document portion of this archive. Where such
inclusion was not possible due to copyright restrictions, references
to the documents have been included in this archive, and it is
up to the user of this archive to obtain a copy of such documents.
The original format of the ICD was MSWORD, and the original format
of the SSR papers was PDF, as noted above. All other formats may
show some loss in quality, especially in images, so the user is
encouraged to get the best possible version of these documents.