SW_WHIxEVT_2_

Whistler Events from ASM BM 250Hz data

Thematic areas: Magnetic measurements, Space Weather

Applicable missions: Swarm

Applicable spacecraft: Swarm-A, Swarm-B

Description

The WHIxEVT_2_ Product contains information about the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) portion of whistlers detected during ASM Burst Mode sessions.

Data access

FAST processing

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File contents

Variable

Units Description Dim Type
Timestamp_Whistler UTC Time of start of whistler signal N CDF_EPOCH
Latitude deg Position in ITRF - Latitude N CDF_DOUBLE
Longitude deg Position in ITRF - Longitude N CDF_DOUBLE
Radius m Position in ITRF - Radius N CDF_DOUBLE
LT hours Local Time at satellite position N CDF_DOUBLE
Whistler_Dispersion s½ Dispersion of whistler signal N CDF_DOUBLE
Whistler_t0 UTC Estimated initial time of whistler propagation inside the ionosphere N CDF_EPOCH
Whistler_t0_uncertainty s Estimated uncertainty on Whistler_t0 N CDF_DOUBLE
Intensity pTHz-1 Intensity of whistler signal in the frequency range between 16 and 125 Hz N CDF_DOUBLE
Timestamp UTC Time of the time series in the whistler time-window N*m CDF_EPOCH
TimeFrac ns Fractional time of observation: ns within second in the whistler time-window N*m CDF_UINT4
F_analysed nT High-pass filtered magnetic field intensity in the whistler time-window N*m CDF_DOUBLE
Flags - Binary combination of the values taken by Flag_outlier Flag_magnetic_condition Flag_heater and Flag_step N*m CDF_UINT1
Timestamp_PSD UTC Time of the PSD over the whistler time-window N*m CDF_EPOCH
Frequencies_PSD Hz Frequencies of PSD p CDF_DOUBLE
PSD nT Hz Power Spectral Density values at Timestamp_PSD over Frequencies_PSD N * n * p CDF_DOUBLE

More details

In the Dim column, N indicates the number of whistler events contained in the data file, m the number of points of the corresponding time-series, n the number of points of the corresponding PSD, p the number of frequencies of the PSD

Flags is stored as a 8 bits unsigned integer and can nominally take values from 0 to 15. This number can be written in a binary form such as Flags = '0000abcd', where:

Related resources

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