[Isocops] Fwd: IBEX Leader's Telecon - 9:30 Central MONDAY!

[Nathan Schwadron]

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> 1) Event loss occurs early on in the orbit (98), when the event rate is
> high (this was when we were getting a lot of ENAs from the  magnetosphere).
> See the attached plots. 
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> You can see that the sum of DE's over Histograms is not all that accurate 
> since it is difficult to line up histogram boundaries with direct events. However, 
> when I do it carefully over longer periods, I get decent results (still not perfect). 
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> Greg's idea that you get multiple events on top of each other that clog the buffers
> is quite plausible since we are looking at the magnetosphere and getting hammered
> by lots of events. 
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> 2) I looked at a specific period near day 292.75 when the event rate and loss was high. 
> The percentage of DE triples/Histogram triples was ~50% (50% for H, and 46% for O)
> The percentage of DE doubles/Histogram doubles was 1% for TOF0 doubles, 0.5% for TOF1 doubles
> and 4% for TOF2 doubles. 
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> The bottom-line is that we probably need to be cautious when looking at the magnetosphere. We have always known that the magnetosphere could clog us up with high event rates. That seems to be the case. 
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> On Jan 30, 2011, at 2:28 PM, McComas, Dave wrote:
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>> Dear IBEX Leaders,
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>> We will have our IBEX Steering Group weekly telecon tomorrow at our NEW regular time - 9:30am Central time on Monday.
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>> Please call (as usual):
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>> 866-606-4698 - passcode 6672042
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>> Thanks and talk to you then,
>> Dave
>>  
>> David J. McComas, Ph.D.
>> Assistant Vice President
>> Space Science and Engineering Division
>> Southwest Research Institute
>>  
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> Nathan Schwadron
> n.schwadron at unh.edu
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> University of New Hampshire
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> (603) 862-3451
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Nathan Schwadron
n.schwadron at unh.edu

University of New Hampshire
Morse Hall - Room 353
8 College Road
Durham NH 03824
USA

(603) 862-3451



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