DOI: 10.48322/bcjj-r065
title: IBEX High Energy Neutral Atom Imager (ENA-Hi) Data Release 10, Compton-Getting corrected, Survival Probability corrected, Omnidirectional, West Longitude Ecliptic Maps, Level H3 (H3), 7 year average Data

description: The IBEX ENA-Hi and IBEX ENA-Lo data sets are from Release 10 of all-sky map data for the first seven years, 2009-2015, in the form of omni direction Hydrogen, H, energetic neutral atom fluxes with Compton-Getting corrections for spacecraft motion and with corrections for ENA survival probability between 1 and 100 AU. All-sky maps have been compiled for the whole 7 yr time interval. The Interstellar Boundary Explorer, IBEX, has operated in space since 2008 updating our knowledge of the outer heliosphere and its interaction with the local interstellar medium. Start-time: 2008-12-25. There are currently 14 releases of IBEX ENA-Hi and/or IBEX ENA-Lo data covering 2009-2017. The data consist of all-sky maps in Solar Ecliptic Longitude, east and west, and Latitude angles for Energetic Neutral Atom, ENA, Hydrogen fluxes from either IBEX ENA-Hi from energy band 2 through energy band 6, see the first table below, or from IBEX ENA-Lo from energy band 5 through energy band 8, see the second table below. Details of the data and enabled science from Release 10 are given in the following journal publications that describe the 7-yr data results and the IBEX-Hi and IBEX-Lo Instruments: McComas, D.J., et al. (2017), Seven Years of Imaging the Global Heliosphere with IBEX, Astrophys. J. Supp. Ser., 229(2), 41 (32 pp.), http://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/aa66d8 Funnsten, H.O., et al. (2009), The Interstellar Boundary Explorer High Energy (IBEX-Hi) Neutral Atom Imager, Space Sci. Rev., 146, 75-103, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-009-9504-y Fuselier, S.A., et al. (2009), The IBEX-Lo Sensor, Space Sci. Rev., 146, 117-147, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-009-9495-8 The IBEX ENA-Hi band/channel center energies and full width half maximum, FWHM, energy ranges are listed in a table below: +-----------------------------------------------------+   Energy Band   Center Energy   Energy Range    -----------------------------------------------------    Channel 2   ~0.71 keV   0.52 keV to 0.95 keV     Channel 3   ~1.11 keV   0.84 keV to 1.55 keV     Channel 4   ~1.74 keV   1.36 keV to 2.50 keV     Channel 5   ~2.73 keV   1.99 keV to 3.75 keV     Channel 6   ~4.29 keV   3.13 keV to 6.00 keV   +-----------------------------------------------------+ The IBEX ENA-Lo band/channel center energies are listed in a table below: +-----------------------------+   Energy Band   Center Energy    -----------------------------    Channel 1   0.015 keV     Channel 2   0.029 keV     Channel 3   0.055 keV     Channel 4   0.110 keV     Channel 5   0.209 keV     Channel 6   0.439 keV     Channel 7   0.872 keV     Channel 8   1.821 keV   +-----------------------------+ This particular IBEX-Hi CDF data product was constructed from the original ascii files named using the pattern hvset_cg_tabular_yearN for N=1,14, includes pixel map data from the omni direction, with corrections, cg, for the Compton-Getting effect corrections, sp, for ENA survival probability between 1 AU and 100 AU, and a map compilation cadence equal to seven year. In all, there are 12 IBEX ENA-Hi and IBEX ENA-Lo Release 10 CDF data products resulting from the existing combinations of options for ENA-Hi and ENA-Lo, two Compton-Getting correction settings by two survival probability settings by three directional settings: antiram, ram, omni. The table below defines how the file naming pattern is constructed for each data product. Note that "ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10" is the file naming pattern root for all ten of these IBEX ENA-Hi CDF data products while "ibex_h3_ena_lo_r10" is the file naming pattern root for the two of these IBEX ENA-Lo CDF data products. The asterisk symbols in the last column of the table shows the line corresponding to this CDF data product within the expanded file naming pattern schema. +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+   C-G Corr.   SP Corr.   Dir. Acronym   ENA Hi/Lo   File Naming Pattern for 7 yr Skymaps      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    cg   nosp   antiram   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_cg_nosp_antiram_7yr       cg   sp   antiram   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_cg_sp_antiram_7yr       nocg   nosp   antiram   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_nocg_nosp_antiram_7yr       nocg   sp   antiram   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_nocg_sp_antiram_7yr      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    cg   nosp   ram   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_cg_nosp_ram_7yr       cg   sp   ram   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_cg_sp_ram_7yr      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    cg   nosp   omni   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_cg_nosp_omni_7yr       cg   sp   omni   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_cg_sp_omni_7yr   ***     nocg   nosp   omni   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_nocg_nosp_omni_7yr       nocg   sp   omni   ENA Hi   ibex_h3_ena_hi_r10_nocg_sp_omni_7yr      ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------    nocg   nosp   omni   ENA Lo   ibex_h3_ena_lo_r10_nocg_nosp_omni_7yr       nocg   sp   omni   ENA Lo   ibex_h3_ena_lo_r10_nocg_sp_omni_7yr     +---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ The first column in the above table shows whether Compton-Getting, C-G, corrections have been applied to the data. C-G corrections account for how ENA measurements are affected by the the orientation of the IBEX spacecraft velocity vector relative to the arrival direction of the ENAs. * cg: Compton-Getting corrections applied * nocg: Compton-Getting corrections not applied The second column in the above table shows whether Survival Probability, SP, corrections have been applied to the data. SP corrections account for the loss of ENAs due to radiation pressure, photoionization and ionization via charge exchange with solar wind protons as they stream through the heliosphere. This correction scales the data out from IBEX at 1 AU to ~100 AU. In the original data this mode is denoted as Tabular. * sp: Survival Probability corrections applied * nosp: Survival Probability corrections not applied The third column in the above table shows the constraint placed on the ENA arrival direction relative to spacecraft motion used in the construction of each of the various IBEX ENA-Hi and IBEX ENA-Lo Skymaps. * omni: All data, no Constraint on the IBEX velocity vector relative to the ram direction of incoming ENAs * ram: Data constrained to times when the IBEX velocity vector pointed into the ram direction of the incoming ENAs * antiram: Data constrained to times when the IBEX velocity vector pointed away from the ram direction of the incoming ENAs The data in IBEX Release 10 are separated into 6 month and 1 year segments. The following table shows the association between Release 10 map numbers from 1 to 14 with mission year from 1 to 7, orbits from 11 to 310b, and dates from 2008-12-25 to 2015-12-23. +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+   Skymap #   Year   Start-End of Orbit or Arcs   Start Date to Stop Date    -------------------------------------------------------------------------    1   1   11-34   2008-12-25 to 2009-06-25     2   1   35-58   2009-06-25 to 2009-12-25     3   2   59-82   2009-12-25 to 2010-06-26     4   2   83-106   2010-06-26 to 2010-12-26     5   3   107-130a   2010-12-26 to 2011-06-25     6   3   130b-150a   2011-06-25 to 2011-12-24     7   4   150b-170a   2011-12-24 to 2012-06-22     8   4   170b-190b   2012-06-22 to 2012-12-26     9   5   191a-210b   2012-12-26 to 2013-06-26     10   5   211a-230b   2013-06-26 to 2013-12-26     11   6   231a-250b   2013-12-26 to 2014-06-26     12   6   251a-270b   2014-06-26 to 2014-12-24     13   7   271a-290b   2014-12-24 to 2015-06-24     14   7   291a-310b   2015-06-24 to 2015-12-23   +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+