ISEE 3: Solar Wind Electron Moments with Hourly Averages, 1978-1982

From August 16, 1978 to October 16, 1982, this dataset provides normalized hourly averages of electron moments in the solar wind from the ISEE 3 spacecraft. It contains electron density, bulk speed, temperature, and spacecraft position, corrected and normalized to ion data from the LANL Solar Wind Plasma experiment. The data was produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

Use Cases

• Modeling solar wind electron properties based on normalized density and temperature data.
• Correlating electron and ion behavior in the solar wind based on the described correction and normalization process.
• Analyzing spacecraft position relative to electron measurements based on GSE coordinate data.
• Identifying and filtering erroneous data points based on the described thresholds for density and velocity.

Strengths

• Data covers a specific 4-year time range from 780816 to 821016.
• Parameters include electron density, bulk speed, temperature, and spacecraft position.
• Electron data has been corrected and normalized to existing ion data.

Limitations

• Standard errors for electron parameters are higher than for ions.
• A few 'bad' points remain, with specific thresholds for erroneous density and velocity values.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Collection Method

Measurements from the LANL Solar Wind Plasma experiment on the ISEE 3 spacecraft.

Time Range

1978-08-16 to 1982-10-16

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-13 06:46:42.316801; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Solar wind, with spacecraft position in GSE coordinates.