VOYAGER DOCUMENT LIBRARY


SRL Reports

SRL Internal Report no. 08
Design of a Cosmic-Ray Electron Energy Spectrometer for use in Deep Space. BS Thesis by Stanely Whitcomb which describes the calibration of a predecessor to the CRS flight telescope. It describes the method to derive the energy spectrum from the observed counting rates

SRL Internal Report no. 76
MJS CRS Science Requirements Document
Tom Garrard, Jan 28, 1976 (last mod.: Apr 1, 1977)
(SRL Internal Report no. 76, page 31. SC commands with additional handwritten text)
SRL Internal Report no. 76 with corrections
SC21AG Command Description

Memo about a recent change to the boresights on V1 HET 1.
Voyager photos identifying HET ends

SRL Internal Report no. 77
SRL Internal Report no. 79: August 1976 TET Calibration
SRL Internal Report no. 80: LET response to high counting rates
SRL Internal Report no. 84: Determining Particle Anisotropies with Voyager LETs
SRL Internal Report no. 85: TET Spectrum Reconstruction
SRL Internal Report no. 92: HET A-end Geometry Factor calculation
Clock, Cone Angle Spreadsheet



Theses

Eric Christian Thesis Part 1
Eric Christian Thesis Part 2
Eric Christian Thesis Internal Report no. 97

Rick Cook Thesis
Rick Cook Thesis Erratum

H.H. Breneman's Thesis: Solar Photospheric and Coronal Abundances from Solar Energetic Particle Measurements
Contains descriptions of several instrument problems pertaining to the thesis data.



Calibration

v1.ecal_accmods.xls  This spreadsheet contains the electronic calibration data for V1 (FU1).

v2.ecal_accmods.xls  This spreadsheet contains the electronic calibration data for V2 (FU2).

Vecal document that summarizes thresholds with email note.

Why do we say incident energy threshold is 0.5 MeV for LET L1 detector? (text)

Alan Info HET Windows (text)
Info HET Windows (PDF)

Calibration of the High Energy Telescopes for the Voyager and ISEE Cosmic Ray Experiments Volume 1 CSC/TM-81/6280

Calibration of the High Energy Telescopes for the Voyager and ISEE Cosmic Ray Experiments Volume 2 CSC/TM-81/6280

Calibration of the High Energy Telescopes for the Voyager and ISEE Cosmic Ray Experiments Volume 3 CSC/TM-81/6280

AppendixG_Vol1-3.pdf
Appendix G of the Calibration of the High Energy Telescopes for the Voyager
and ISEE Cosmic Ray Experiments (CSC/TM-81/6280). Volumes 1, 2, 3.
Revision 1, March 1982
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Tables and matrices on the calibration of the ISEE HET

loose_packet7_Voyager.pdf
Collection of loose documents dated 1993, 1994 concerning Voyager detectors, stopping modes and spectral fits. Also, Pioneer-10 LET recalibration for H.
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

618-306_RevD.pdf
No title. Cover reads: Preliminary, 618-306, Change #5, 5/1/89
Contains information on all Voyager instruments
There are other parts of this document in other files but this is the most complete copy. (Notebook30b.pdf,loose_packet3_Voyager.pdf)
Adobe Capture, (hard copy recycled)

618-306_RevD_change_2_1977_12_09.pdf
Version dated 12/09/1977 which describes the cruise modes from 1 to 6.

calibration_terminology.pdf
Calibration Terminology: Introduction to concepts involved.
Appendix A (page 99-117) of another volume.
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)



Communications

Voyager Telecommunications by Roger Ludwig and Jim Taylor



TET Documents

Voyager TET Specs Email 1
Voyager TET Specs Document 1 (PDF)

Voyager TET Specs Email 2
Voyager TET Specs Document 2 (PDF)

TET Warrant Sheets email
TET Warrant Sheets

TET Angular Response Plots Final Version LaJolla calibration, August 1976
TET La Jolla Calibration Logbook August 1976

Email from Alan Cummings regarding Kevex document
TET detector Kevex specifications



Miscellaneous

Data Processing System Guide for the Voyager-1 and -2, and the ISEE-3 Cosmic Ray Experiments CSC/TM-81/6183

Stilwell Memo about the Block I PHA problem

Voyager CRS team meeting notes about V2 G1 stuck in HET2.

Production_manual_1991.pdf
Voyager data production manual from early 1990's.
Updated manual in txt and tex formats located at: /home/voy386/cosmicra/voyager/manual
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

loose_packet3_Voyager.pdf
Collection of loose documents in a brown folder. One of many packets.
Contains (not inclusive):
In folder labeled "Ronish Voyager"
Word table, spherical coord. correction, addition to aspect summary, flap specifications,
System III Voyager-Jupiter Encounter tape notes, fluxplot program inputs.
In folder labeled "Pam Keep Voyager"
Right Ascension and Declanation angle formula, parts of document 618-396 Rev. D,
structure of flux time-history record with notes, Pioneer F/G program inventory,
disk file header, SEICC.USERGIDE.TEXT, ISEE-3 ZBEWR.FLUXPLOT.ASM, boxgen table,
An Introduction to TIMPLT by D.V. Reames 06/01/80
In unlabled folder:
Neptune IDF final format, V2 Loglist 08/26, B951 notes (playbacks),
V-2 figures and data listings: 08/24/89, 3 min avg, IA1H, IA2H, etc., FDSC listing 09/05/89,
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

loose_packet1_Voyager.pdf
Collection of loose documents in a brown folder. One of many packets.
Contains (not inclusive):
Letters and documents from JPL regarding EDR tape formats, Saturn encounter, fixed
instrument SEDR file layout, CRS Analog multiplexer Implementation,
Navigation data block formats for launch period, cruise periods, and Jupiter and Saturn encounters.
pointing vector data block format, MJS77 test configuration, FE-1 mission phase,
experiment data record format specification for Jupiter/Saturn encounters,
draft of EDR format for Cruise 7 telemetry data, explanation of the mission events log terminology.
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

loose_packet2_Voyager.pdf
Collection of loose documents in a brown folder. One of many packets.
Contains (not inclusive):
Saturn encounter trajectory figures and table
MJS CRS SRD Electronics: Event Analysis, Rate Systems, Command/Status Systems,
Calibration Stimulus System, Analog Multiplexer Data
HET Endpoint Channel Numbers: High Gain, Low Gain, Rate, Muon Run #'s
HET plot types, Wedge, etc
JPL letter: Coordinate Systems Used in the Voyager Navigation System Programs
Attachment F: Pointing Vector Data Block Format
Software Interface Specification
Fixed Instrument SEDR File Layout (A), Fixed Instrument SEDR Header Record Format (B)
Navigation Data Block Format for Cruise Periods (C), Navigation Data Block Format for Jupiter Encounter (D)
Navigation Data Block Format for Saturn Encounter (E), Pointing Vector Data Block Format (F),
Fixed Instrument SEDR Format Uranus Navigation Block (Table B-12)
Various test results for different radii and radius of curvature
CRS Engineering Units Conversion
Voyager Software Interface Specification SIS 4-7008-1, Rev D (Contains above attachments)
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Voy_Jup_Encounter.pdf
"Voyager 1 and 2, Cosmic Ray Subsystem, Description of Jupiter Encounter Data"
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Jup_Enc_Prep.pdf
Voyager meeting of Field and Particle P.I.'s: Jupiter Encounter Preparation 08/14/78
Agenda and notes
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Neptune_Encounter_SEDR_Updates46.pdf
Document change for Voyager Software Interface Specification, Fixed Instrument SEDR.
Includes updates for the Neptune Encounter
Attachment A: Fixed Instrument SEDR File Layout
Attachment B: Fixed Instrument SEDR Header Record Format
Attachment C: Navigation Data Block Format for Launch Period
Attachment D: Navigation Data Block Format for Cruise Periods
Attachment E: Navigation Data Block Format for Jupiter Encounter
Attachment F: Navigation Data Block Format for Saturn Encounter
Attachment G: Pointing Vector Data Block Format
Attachment H: Fixed Instrument SEDR Format Extended Mission Cruise Navigation Block Post-Saturn Cruise
Attachment I: Fixed Instrument SEDR Format Uranus Encounter Navigation Block
Attachment J: Fixed Instrument SEDR Format Neptune Encounter Navigation Block
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Science_Significant_Events45.pdf
Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 (partial) events for 1977-1978
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Science_Significant_Events44.pdf
Voyager-1 and Voyager-2 (partial) events for 1979
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

VOY_Notebook22.pdf
Binding: Voyager Automatic Log Interface
Collection of Subroutine descriptions
(hard copy recycled)

Paper_V1_Saturn_magnetosphere.pdf
"Energetic Charged Particles in Saturn's Magnetosphere: Voyager 1 Results" Vogt
(No date, not from a journal so probably not final version)
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

voydoc2.pdf
Voyager Program Documentation Guide

loose_packet11_Misc.pdf
Loose pages in a folder labelled "Program Lists" however the document is very miscellaneous:
Hand written review of work to be done (both production and porting)
Page 111 has hand drawn list of CATALOG programs
Work Control Plan for Fiscal Year 1995
General Problems in FLUXPLOTS
Analysis needs to do work locally
Milestones FY 1994
Current Pathways
"Example of Documenting Member for a Bow"
List of items for new employee to Nitya
Pioneer Data Processing System drawings
Helios Data Processing System drawings
Voyager Production drawings
IMP data flow diagrams
name convension in the IMP system
notes from "Informal talk with Kristin on Friday 1/14/94"
IMP PC useage - NOW
IMP-8 data flow diagram on Sun workstation
Proposed plan to move IMP-8 software from IBM 9021/MVS system to Sun Sparcstation
IMP Data Processing System drawings
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Pam_Worklog_Jul94-May95.pdf
Pam Schuster's worklog (hand written) from July 1, 1994 - ~mid May 1995.
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

CR_Plan_Magnetosphere_Exp.pdf
"Interstellar Cosmic Ray and Planetary Magnetospheres Experiment"; Jokipii, Stone, Vogt, McDonald, Teegarden, Trainor, Webber; August 1972
Adobe Capture, ((hard copy recycled)

Flux_Ratio_stop_particles.pdf
"Flux Ratio for Stopping Particles" Phillipe Ferrando and Andrew Lukasiak, January 1989
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Realtime_Comm_Jupiter.pdf
"Real-Time Commanding Requirements at Jupiter Encounter for the CRS, LECP, MAG and PLS Investigations"
Distribution from E. Franzgrote
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Config_Control_Management_37.pdf See pages 399 - 401
Collection of program/dataset Change Control Reports for Pioneer and IMP-6,-7,-8
Cover: Cosmic Ray Backups and Data Set Changes for Pioneer and IMP
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Config_Control_Management_36.pdf See pages 111-115, 140-143
Collection of program/dataset Change Control Reports for ISEE-3 and Helios
Cover: Cosmic Ray Backups and Data Set Changes for ISEE-3 and HELIOS
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Config_Control_Management_35.pdf
Collection of program/dataset Change Control Reports for ISEE, Helios, Pioneer, and Voyager.
Adobe Acrobat, (hard copy recycled)

Notebook26.pdf
Cover states: "Other Task Project Documents" and "Kristins Tape Catalog Doc".
A few pages related to Project Tapes for IMP, Helios, Pioneer, and Voyager (1987)
PC Flux Program Design (Preliminary), Kristin Wortman, STX, 09/21/1989
Memos regarding tapes
Cartridge Conversion Process, Kristin Wortman, SAR, 09/16/1988
IMP Data Base Compression Preprocessor For Compression Program Documentation (Preliminary), B.S.Reddy, SAR, 05/31/1984
IMP Data Compression Review Notes, Eunice Eng, 01/30/1984
A Study of Alternatives for Reducing IMP Tape Slot Requirements (Semi-Final Draft), SAR, 06/19/1981
Requirements of a Cosmic Ray Data Base Inventory Catalog, Document Number 84, Kristin Wortman, SAR, Eunice Eng, 664, 11/16/1984
Cosmic Ray Tape Inventory System Specifications, Issue 1, Revision A, Document Number 84, K.Wortman, Eunice Eng, 11/28/1984
Duplicate with Thread Specifications to Design, 01/31/1985, Eunice Eng
Cosmic Ray Data Base Inventory Catalog User's Guide, Issue 1, 06/12/1985, Document Number 85, K.Wortman, SAR
Cosmic Ray Data Base Inventory Catalog Design Documentation, Issue 1, 01/30/1985, Document # 85, K.Wortman, SAR
Cosmic Ray Data Base Inventory Catalog User's Guide, Issue 1, 01/30/1985, Document Number 85, K.Wortman, SAR
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Notebook30a.pdf
Part A: Collection of Documents related to Cosmic Ray task in general
3 page document on the history of the Cosmic Ray Software, no date
Draft presentation to NCCS and Headquarters, 03/24/1992
Flow charts and handwritten notes on IMP-8 data processing systems.
Data Census Activity letter, 11/03/1989,
Data Census Survey
Cosmic Ray System linecounts
Lists of Project Source Datasets: Helios, Pioneer, Voyager
First Part of IMP-7,-8 tape listing with number of records and start/stop times
(hard copy recycled)

Notebook30b.pdf
Part B: Collection of Documents related to Cosmic Ray task in general
Last Part of IMP-7,-8 tape listing with number of records and start/stop times
Pioneer PHA, Rate tape description
Pioneer flux tape description
*Voyager ENCY Format SRD
LSELECT user's guide
*MJS CRS SRD (copy of instrument descriptions and electronics)
MJS Log (description of control blocks)
Experiment Data Record Descriptions
Appendix C: Standard Header Format
(hard copy recycled)

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xrkaw.memos.text.mcguire2.pdf

V2_FDS_reset.pdf