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NumericalData
ResourceID
spase://CNES/NumericalData/CDPP-Archive/MMS-4/Fields/SCM/MMS_SCM_4_ATT
ResourceHeader
ResourceName
MMS-4 Definitive Attitude (ASCII)
DOI
https://doi.org/10.24400/802406/a0mc-q2hw
ReleaseDate
2022-07-07 14:05:24Z
Description
This dataset contains definitive attitude data.
Acknowledgement
SCM data, as a data set of the MMS-SMART data products, are open to all scientists and the public (Users).
Users should contact the MMS-SMART Principal Investigator (PI) J. L. Burch and O. Le Contel the co-investigator (coI) of the SCM instrument to consult on the appropriate use of instrument data.
Users should acknowledge the sources of data used in all publications, presentations, and reports.
Please send information on the use of these data to:
- PI: J. L. Burch [jburch@swri.edu]
- co-I: O. Le Contel [olivier.lecontel@lpp.polytechnique.fr]
We suggest to add the following lines into the acknowledgments:
The authors acknowledge NASA, CNES (Centre National d'Etudes Spatiales) and, CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) for their support to the MMS/SCM team and the CDPP (Centre de Données de la Physique des Plasmas) for the distribution of the MMS/SCM data.
and if PI/coI are not part of the publication list, then we suggest to add Specifically, we acknowledge J. L. Burch for use of data from the MMS-SMART mission, O. Le Contel and the late A. Roux for use of SCM data.
For more informations about data rights and rules, see https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/about/
The following paper should also be used to reference:
Le Contel O., Leroy P., Roux A., Coillot C., Alison D., Bouabdellah A., Mirioni L., Meslier L., Galic A., Vassal M. C., Torbert R. B., Needell J., Rau D., Dors I., Ergun R. E., Westfall J., Summers D., Wallace J., Magnes W., Valavanoglou A., Olsson G., Chutter M., Macri J., Myers S., Turco S., Nolin J., Bodet D., Rowe K., Tanguy M., De la Porte B., The Search-Coil Magnetometer for MMS, Space Science Reviews 199 (1) 257-282 (2016)
Contacts
AccessInformation
RepositoryID
Availability
Online
AccessURL
Name
REGARDS
URL
Description
Access via CNES Data Archive for CDPP
Format
Text.ASCII
InstrumentIDs
MeasurementType
Ephemeris
TemporalDescription
TimeSpan
StartDate
2015-03-13 00:00:00Z
StopDate
2021-10-31 00:00:00Z
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosheath
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosphere
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosphere.Magnetotail
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosphere.Main
ObservedRegion
Earth.Magnetosphere.RadiationBelt
ObservedRegion
Earth.NearSurface.EquatorialRegion
ObservedRegion
Earth.NearSurface.Plasmasphere
ObservedRegion
Heliosphere.NearEarth
Parameter #1
Name
MMS-4 q1 quaternion
Description
MMS-4 spacecraft quaternion components q1, q2, q3, q4, qc
Support
SupportQuantity
Orientation
Parameter #2
Name
MMS-4 X,Y,Z rotation rate components
Description
MMS-4 X,Y,Z rotation rate components (deg/s) (instantaneous spin axis in body frame)
Units
°/s
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad/s
CoordinateSystem
CoordinateRepresentation
Cartesian
CoordinateSystemName
SC
Support
Qualifier
Vector
SupportQuantity
Orientation
Parameter #3
Name
MMS-4 w-Phase
Description
MMS-4 w-phase (Sun-to-body-X dihedral angle about rotation rate vector) (deg)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #4
Name
MMS-4 Z-RA
Description
MMS-4 right ascension (deg) of body Z-axis
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #5
Name
MMS-4 Z-Dec
Description
MMS-4 declination (deg) of body Z-axis
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #6
Name
MMS-4 Z-Phase
Description
MMS-4 Z-phase (Sun-to-body-X dihedral angle about body Z-axis) (deg)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #7
Name
MMS-4 L-RA
Description
MMS-4 right ascension (deg) of angular momentum (L)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #8
Name
MMS-4 L-Dec
Description
MMS-4 MMS-4 declination (deg) of angular momentum (L)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #9
Name
MMS-4 L-Phase
Description
MMS-4 L-phase (Sun-to-body-X dihedral angle about angular momentum vector L) (deg)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #10
Name
MMS-4 P-RA
Description
MMS-4 right ascension (deg) of major principal axis (P)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #11
Name
MMS-4 P-Dec
Description
MMS-4 declination (deg) of major principal axis (P)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #12
Name
MMS-4 P-Phase
Description
MMS-4 P-phase (Sun-to-body-X dihedral angle about major principal axis P) (deg)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #13
Name
MMS-4 Nut
Description
MMS-4 nutation angle (deg)
Units
°
UnitsConversion
0.0174532925>rad
Support
Parameter #14
Name
MMS-4 quality flag
Description
MMS-4 quality flag:
EKF=good extended Kalman filter solution with star tracker data
CNV=filter not yet converged
SUN=no tracker data, spin phase obtained from Sun sensor data
INT=no tracker or Sun sensor data, phase interpolated from neighboring tracker data
BAD=no tracker or Sun sensor data for a time span too large for interpolation
Support