SWEA Software

Last Updated 2007-10-25

Currently, SWEA 3D distributions are available. Some PAD's are available but not uniformly yet. Moments are still in progress.

In order to use, my SWEA software a typical session would look something like this (note that "sta" can generally be changed to "stb" for Behind):

(before starting the IDL session)

source /home/peters/stereo/idl/stereo_source_clean
idl -32

(then in IDL)
swea_l1_common ; load SWEA common block

timespan,'2007-06-01',1  ; choose a time period of interest

load_sta_l1_sweadist  ; load SWEA 3D distributions into TPLOT
load_sta_l1_mag,/rtn  ; load MAG data in SC and RTN coords

t = get_sta_swea3d(/times) ; get times of 3D distributions
dat = get_sta_swea3d(t[15]) ; grab a 3D distribution
dat = get_sta_swea3d(index = 16) ; should do same as above

load_sta_sweapd ; load SWEA PAD file into TPLOT (if it exists)

You should now have a bunch of TPLOT variables that may be of interest. You can also use GET_STA_SWEA3D with routines like GET_3DT at this point.

However, at this point, be aware that GET_STA_SWEA3D and GET_STB_SWEA3D only return data in flux, eflux or df - not counts. Therefore, some routines need to be used with the units keyword set as in:

get_spec,'sta_swea3d',units='Flux'

***HIGHLY EXPERIMENTAL***
load_sta_l1_sweamom ; loads SWEA onboard moments - right now in engineering units