As of this writing the Shock Normal Determination program supports only a single data input format. That may change in the future.
The input data is presented as an ASCII file. There is one line in the file for each time slice of data. Each line contains 14 entries. These are given in order below.
| ASCII DATA FILE LINE ENTRIES | ||
|---|---|---|
| ENTRY POSITION | DEFINITION | UNITS |
| 1 | Year | Years |
| 2 | Day of Year | Days |
| 3 | Hour | Hours |
| 4 | Minute | Minutes |
| 5 | Second | Seconds |
| 6 | X Component of Magnetic Field | NanoTesla |
| 7 | Y Component of Magnetic Field | NanoTesla |
| 8 | Z Component of Magnetic Field | NanoTesla |
| 9 | X Component of Bulk Flow Velocity | km/sec |
| 10 | Y Component of Bulk Flow Velocity | km/sec |
| 11 | Z Component of Bulk Flow Velocity | km/sec |
| 12 | Density | /cc |
| 13 | Ion Temperature | degrees K |
| 14 | Electron Temperature | degrees K |
Any entry for which there is no information should be set to 0.0. At a minimum there must be entries for the time, velocity and magnetic field components. A sample entry line is shown below.
| SAMPLE ASCII DATA FILE LINE | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 331 | 22 | 0 | 6 | 0.616 | 0.908 | 0.799 | 282.25 | -3.56 | 3.42 | 6.74 | 9.842E+04 | 0.0 |