Support of the Science Community

If you wish to collaborate with this team, contact the Principal Investigator, Prof. Forrest Mozer.

These files may be viewed using a set of IDL procedures known as KPVT. That is part of a greater set of ISTP Science Analysis Tools .

Analysis by the EFI Team

Key parameter summary data from the EFI, other instruments on the Polar spacecraft, and instruments on the other spacecraft in the ISTP program are available to participating scientists through the NASA Central Data Handling Facility (CDHF). Principal and Co-investigators on Polar have Remote Data Access Facilities (RDAFs) for electronically accessing the CDHF data, exchanging higher time resolution measurements with other participating experiments, or disseminating quick results to the scientific community. The RDAFs for the EFI experiment consist of Sun workstations with servers and associated support equipment. A software package called SDT facilitates viewing and manipulating the data for scientific analysis.

Current System Requirements for SDT

   Hardware: Sun Solaris or PC/Linux 
         OS: Solaris 5.7, 5.8, 5.9 or RedHat 9.0 (2.4 kernel), Suse 9.2 (2.6 kernel), 
             FedoraCore3 (2.6 kernel)
 RAM memory: At least 512 MB recommended