MMS 3 Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA) Moments, Level 2 (L2), Survey Mode, 10 s Data

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Hot Plasma Composition Analyzer (HPCA) Moments, Level 2, Survey, 10 s Data. The MMS HPCA instruments measure the energy and composition of magnetospheric plasmas in the energy range from 1 eV to 40 keV. An electrostatic energy analyzer (ESA) that is optically coupled to a carbon-foil based Time-of-Flight (TOF) section comprises each HPCA. The basic HPCA data product is an array of counts for 5 ion species, at 63 energies, for each of 16 elevation anodes. Sixteen basic products, also called azimuths, are acquired every 10 s; half a spacecraft spin period nominally has 16 azimuths. The five ion species are protons (H+), alpha particles (He++), helium ions (He+), singly charged Oxygen (O+), and background counts.

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Name Format Description Link
21 https://doi.org/10.48322/2v65-6696
5 https://mms.gsfc.nasa.gov/
5 https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/datasets/hpca/
21 https://doi.org/10.48322/tfc0-jy75
5 https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/
5 mms-instruments.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mms/spacecraft/mms-instruments.html#fpi
5 https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/datasets/hpca/

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  • energeticparticles
  • magneticfield

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