Support Data - Solar Orbiter Archive
Archive Support Data
This page contains relevant information for the understanding of the data stored in and distributed from the Solar Orbiter ARchive (SOAR) at http://soar.esac.esa.int/soar/. Further detailed information on how to make use of the Solar Orbiter archive user interface can be found at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/soar/soar-web-guide
This is a copy of the page at Archive Support Data which is on the Solar Orbiter SOC Public Confluence site.
Each instrument provides a Data Product Description Document (DPDD) which describes the data and the metadata given inside the data files. The instruments may also provide calibration data and/or Data Release reports and/or Usage Notes.
IN SITU: EPD | MAG | RPW | SWA
REMOTE SENSING: EUI | Metis | PHI | SoloHI | SPICE | STIX
More support data at https://www.cosmos.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/data-tutorials
Tutorials from workshops: Science data
Orbit file
Search by distance
This Jupyter notebook uses the orbit file to calculate the time intervals when Solar Orbiter is within two distances from the Sun, in AU:
SearchByDistance_Intervals.ipynb
Number of files ingested, per instrument
This notebook gives the number of files ingested into the database since a specific date:
DailyDigestByInstrumentAndLevel.ipynb
Guide to descriptors/filenames
In the SOAR search page, you can use a single string to search all files related to a single instrument, telescope or detector, by copy/pasting the string in the third column into the File Name text box. Remember that in that text box you can also use wildcards, where ? means a single character and * means multiple characters, and it is also case insensitive.
| Instrument | Telescope/detector | Single string to use |
|---|---|---|
| Extreme UV Imager (EUI) | Full Sun Imager (FSI) 174 Å Full Sun Imager (FSI) 304 Å High Resolution Imager (HRI) 174 Å High Resolution Imager (HRI) 1216 Å |
fsi174 fsi304 hrieuv174 hrilya1216 |
| Metis: Visible light and ultraviolet coronagraph (Metis) | Visible (580-640 nm) UV 1216 Å |
metis-vl metis-uv |
| Polarimetric and Helioseismic Imager (PHI) | Full Disk Telescope (FDT) High Resolution Telescope (HRT) |
phi-fdt phi-hrt |
| SPectral Investigation of the Coronal Environment (SPICE) | Narrow slits (2"/4"/6") Wide slit (30") |
spice-n spice-w |
| Energetic Particle Detector (EPD) | Electron Proton Telescope (EPT) SupraThermal Electrons and Protons (STEP) Suprathermal Ion Spectrograph (SIS) High-Energy Telescope (HET) Combined EPT/HET data products |
epd-ept- epd-step epd-sis epd-het epd-epthet |
| Radio and Plasma Wave instrument (RPW) | Low Frequency Receiver (LFR) Time Domain Sampler (TDS) Thermal Noise Receiver (TNR) High Frequency receiver (HFR) BIAS (inc. DC E-field, density, S/C potential) |
rpw-lfr rpw-tds rpw-tnr rpw-hfr rpw-bia |
| Solar Wind Analyser (SWA) | Electron Analyser System (EAS) Heavy Ion Sensor (HIS) Proton and Alpha particle Sensor (PAS) |
swa-eas swa-his swa-pas |
EPD - ENERGETIC PARTICLE DETECTOR
DPDD: SO-EPD-PO-TN-0038_iss1_rev2_DPDD.pdf
Calibration Files:
solo_CAL_epd-epthet1-burst1_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet1-burst2_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet1-burst3_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet1-nom_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet1-quicklook_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet2-burst1_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet2-burst2_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet2-burst3_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet2-nom_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-epthet2-quicklook_20200512_V02.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-sis-a-rates_20200401_V04.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-sis-b-rates_20200401_V04.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-step-burst1_20200429_V01.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-step-nom_20200429_V01.cdf
solo_CAL_epd-step-quicklook_20200429_V01.cdf
EUI - EXTREME UV IMAGER
Home page: https://sidc.be/EUI/intro
DPDD: SP-ROB-SOEUI-19001-DPDD_1.8.pdf
EUI Metadata Standard: SP_ROB_SOEUI_19002_MetadataStandard_1.8.pdf
EUI Gallery, including movies
EUI data analysis landing page
MAG - MAGNETOMETER
DPDD: SOL-MAG-DPDD_i2r0_28Sep20.pdf
User Guide: Solar+Orbiter+magnetometer+user+guide_i1.pdf
Latest Solar Orbiter Magbetic Field Data (near-real time, not for publication)
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Metis - VISIBLE LIGHT AND ULTRAVIOLET CORONAGRAPH
Metis DPDD: METIS-OATO-SPE-021_2.2_Solar_Orbiter_Metis_Data_Product_Description_Document_20221116_signed.pdf
PHI - POLARIMETRIC AND HELIOSEISMIC IMAGER
DPDD: SOL-PHI-MPS-SW7400-IF-2_0_1.pdf
PHI-FDT second data release 15 April 2024
PHI reference web page
Quick look of released data
RPW - RADIO AND PLASMA WAVES
DPDD: ROC-PRO-DAT-NTT-00075-LES_Iss01_Rev03_(RPW-Data-Product-Description-Document).pdf
Science Data User Manual: ROC-PRO-DAT-NTT-00130-LES_Iss01_Rev00(RPW_Science_Data_User_Manual).pdf
Calibration Files:
SOLO_CAL_RCT-LFR-BIAS_V20190123171020.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RCT-LFR-SCM_V20190123171020.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RCT-LFR-VHF_V20190123171020.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-BIAS_V202007031616.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-BIAS_V202011191204.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-SCM_SCM-FS-MEB-PFM_V20200428000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-TDS-LFM-CWF-B_V20200512000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-TDS-LFM-CWF-E_V20200512000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-TDS-LFM-RSWF-B_V20200512000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-TDS-LFM-RSWF-E_V20200512000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-TDS-SURV-MAMP_V20200615000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-TDS-SURV-STAT_V20200615000000.cdf
SOLO_CAL_RPW-THR-ANT-HF_PARAMS_V20200613000000.cdf
SoloHI - SOLAR ORBITER HELIOSPHERIC IMAGER
DPDD: SSD-SPC-SOLOHI-011 Rev A (RELEASED).pdf
SPICE - SPECTRAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CORONAL ENVIRONMENT
DPDD: SPICE-UIO-DPDD-0002-1.6-Data Product Description Document [SPICEFITS].pdf
Data Release 4.0: Release Notes
STIX - SPECTROMETER TELESCOPE FOR IMAGING X-RAYS
STIX Pages: https://datacenter.stix.i4ds.net/
DPDD: STIX-TN-0186-FHNW_I1R1_STIX_Data_Description_Document_DPDD_signed.pdf
Some STIX observations have been re-requested from the spacecraft to adjust the resolution (spectral & temporal) with respect to the originally downlinked file. These re-requests are therefore different versions of already existing products, and so are given an additional '-sup1' or -sup2' to the descriptor. The original files and reasons for the re-request are given in this CSV file: supplement_report_20230517.csv
SWA - SOLAR WIND ANALYSER
DPDD: SWA_DPDD_version-J_LBE_20230103.pdf
SWA-EAS - Electron Analyser System
Caveats: SO-SWA-MSSL-TN-015_+Issue1_SWA_EAS_Caveats.pdf
Descriptors:
solo_L2_swa-eas-pad-[def/dnf/psd]_ : onboard selected electron pitch angle data rebinned on the ground using calibrated magnetic field data, in units of PSD, DNF or DEF
solo_L2_swa-eas[1/2]-nm3d-[def/dnf/psd]_ : Normal Mode Electron 3D distribution function data product from EAS[1/2] in units of PSD, DNF or DEF
solo_L2_swa-eas[1/2]-ss-[def/dnf/psd]_ : single strahl electron distribution data product from EAS[1/2] in units of PSD, DNF or DEF
SWA-HIS - Heavy Ion System
Usage notes for Low Latency Data: SWA-HIS_LL_usage_notes_draft2.pdf
Off-nominal days: SWA-HIS_low_latency_off-nominal_days_v2022-07-05T232453.csv
Usage notes for Level 3 data: SWA-HIS_usage_notes_L3_V01_revA.pdf
Descriptors
solo_L2_swa-his-hk_ : Housekeeping
solo_L2_swa-his-pha_ : Pulse Height Analysis
solo_L2_swa-his-rates_ : Sensor rates
SWA-PAS - Proton Analyser System
SWA-PAS L2 Data User Guide: PAS_L2_Data_User_Guide_20201116.pdf
Descriptors
solo_L2_swa-pas-eflux_ : PAS omni-directional flux
solo_L2_swa-pas-grnd-mom_ : PAS ground calculated moments
solo_L2_swa-pas-vdf_ : PAS velocity distribution functions