Operations / Software Comments - 03/01/05 TIDE Telecon

Operations:
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There will be a spacecraft attitude adjustment on 03/02/05.  TIDE high voltage
was turned off at 16:40 on 03/01.  The high voltage will be ramped at on 03/05.


Software:
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The current Stops long-term calibration used in the processing software is 
based on data collected when the Stops MCP was set at -1600 v.  On 10/21/04, 
the Stops MCP voltage was changed to -1800 v.  This makes the calibration 
correction incorrect for any data collected since then.  By default, the 
gif-walk zoom option and all of the Custom Plots use the correction.  When
processing data collected since 10/21/04, the option to use the correction
should be turned off.  The option to use the long-term correction is near the
bottom of each custom plot menu (just above the submit button).  For all plots
except velocity distribution, a comment at the bottom of the plot indicates if
the correction was used.  For velocity distribution plots, the comment is in
the accompanying .txt file.  Note: the summary plots are created with no
correction.

Work started looking at ways to improve the quality of the TIDE data by doing
a better job of handling missing data.

Work continues adding the option to the processing software to create velocity
distribution plots in GSE and GSM coordinates in addition to b-field 
coordinates and adding the option to contour the velocity distribution PSD data.