Creation of the TIDE Level-Zero Processing Parameter File The standalone processing software is on griffin. To create a parameter file either: run /export/data2/tide/smry_plt/lz_parm or cp /export/data2/tide/smry_plt/lz_parm . run lz_parm Note: The menus are a little confusing, some want bit values set by specifying a 0 or 1 for each item listed, others want the actual item number. The first prompt is for the parameter filename. Make it descriptive with an extension of .parm opt description --- ------------------------------------------- 0 no option selected 1 color based on channel number (polar angle) 2 color based on spin angle 3 color based on energy chromogram type => polar angle color bins\n --------------------------- opt 0: stop opt 1: red - channel 1,2,3 green - channel 4,5 blue - channel 6,7 opt 2: red - channel 2,3 green - channel 4,5 blue - channel 6,7 polar channel option => energy(1), spin angle(2) horizontal axis => number of energy bins (31,16,8,4,2,1) => number of spin angle bins (32,16,8,4,2,1) => Enter chromogram color limits. red/green boundary: green/blue boundary: red/blue boundary: number of channel bins (7,6,3,2,1) => Enter chromogram color limits. The RPA voltage range is 0 to 300 minimum red: red/green boundary: green/blue boundary: maximum blue: Enter the mass to charge ratio of the masses you want plotted in order (top-bottom). Enter -1 for singles, 0 if mass not plotted. Enter all six values separated by blanks => Note: Singles not permitted for chosen flux option. Enter the mass to charge ratio of the masses you want plotted in order (top to bottom). Enter 0 if mass not plotted. Enter all five values separated by blanks => Enter the number of the channels you want plotted in order (top to bottom). Enter 0 if channel not plotted, Enter all seven values separated by blanks => opt description --- ------------------- 0 stop 1 hertz 2 number flux 3 energy flux 4 phase space density 5 counts output units option => linear(1) or logarithmic(2) output => The default data range for non-zero counts is xx to xx Do you want to change it? (y/n) unit minimum: unit maximum: Enter a 1 if you want the data, a 0 if you don't. Enter the 1's and 0's on the prompt line, no blanks, in the order the processing options are listed. bit processing option description --- --------------------------------------------------------- 0 stop 1 TIDE Science Mode Ion Count Rates 2 TIDE/PSI Engineering (housekeeping) Data 3 TIDE Instrument Parameters 4 TIDE Moments / On-Board Centroids / magaz-magel 5 TIDE Direct-Events 6 TIDE Calibration Mode Singles and Masses 7 database processing, summary plots, instrument health 8 telemetry data dumps process option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 chromogram plots 2 spectrogram plots 3 phase space density distribution plots 4 save spin-averaged or spin-summed masses 5 save selected data in text file 6 save selected data in binary file ion count processing option ==> average over spin(1), energy(2), both(3) or sum over spin/energy/user-specified time (4) => The default data range for non-zero counts is 10 to 18 Do you want to change it? (y/n) unit minimum: unit maximum: Enter the mass to charge ratio of the mass you want plotted => average counts every n spins, where n = maximum plotted velocity (enter 0 for full range) => spacecraft potential => perpindicular plane, Vx in km/s (enter 999 for plasma Vx) => moments will be calculated based on the following ranges: full RPA voltage range: 0 - 300 V full spin angle range: 0 - 360 deg. (11.25deg bins) full polar angle range: 0 - 157.5 deg. (22.5 deg bins)\n enter the range min, range max, or approximate bin center minimum RPA voltage: maximum RPA voltage: minimum spin angle: maximum spin angle: minimum polar angle: maximum polar angle: Enter the mass to charge ratio of the ion you want data for. Enter -1 for singles => Enter -1 to use entire user-specified range. Length of plot time axis in hours => bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 Standard text display 2 save all housekeeping bytes in a binary file 3 TIDE/PSI summary plots 4 save selected data in a text file housekeeping sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 Standard text display 2 save mirror ratios in text file instrument parameter sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 calculate and save moments (den,vel,temp) 2 save on_board centroids in a text file 3 save magaz/magel in a text file spin header sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> average counts every n spins, where n = spacecraft potential => moments will be calculated based on the following ranges: full RPA voltage range: 0 - 300 V full spin angle range: 0 - 360 deg. (11.25deg bins) full polar angle range: 0 - 157.5 deg. (22.5 deg bins)\n enter the range min, range max, or approximate bin center minimum RPA voltage: maximum RPA voltage: minimum spin angle: maximum spin angle: minimum polar angle: maximum polar angle: Enter the mass to charge ratio of the masses you want moments for Enter 0 if a mass not wanted (Singles not permitted). Enter all five values separated by blanks\n\n=> bit description --- --------------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 plot data as function of tof bin for selected times 2 create color spectragram 3 save data in text file (one file / channel) direct_event mode sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> linear(1) or logged(2) counts => The default data range for non-zero counts is %g to %g\n", Do you want to change it? (y/n) unit minimum: unit maximum: Enter -1 to use entire user-specified range. Length of plot time axis in hours => bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 plot singles strip charts 2 plot mass spectrograms 3 save singles data in a binary file calibration mode sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 database processing 2 summary plots 3 instrument health and operating status initial processing sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> bit description --- --------------------------------------------- 0 no sub-option selected 1 major frame byte dump 2 data product hex dump telemetry dump sub-option (0 or 1 for each bit) ==> opt description --- --------------------------------------- 0 no option selected 1 plot channels for user-specified masses 2 plot masses for user-specified channels spectrogram type => Enter the number of the channels you want plotted in the order (top to bottom). Enter 0 if channel not plotted. Enter all seven values separated by blanks\n\n=> Enter the mass to charge ratio of the masses you want plotted in order (top-bottom). Enter -1 for singles, 0 if mass not plotted. Enter all six values separated by blanks\n\n=> Note: Singles not permitted for chosen flux option. Enter the mass to charge ratio of the masses you want plotted in order (top to bottom). Enter 0 if mass not plotted. Enter all five values separated by blanks\n\n=> Enter the number of each channel you want plotted, one channel per plot. Enter 0 if channel not plotted. Enter all seven values separated by blanks\n\n=> energy(1), spin angle(2) horizontal axis =>