MMS Electric Field Double Probes

EDP quicklook plots in SPEDAS

The MMS EDP measures the electric field with a set of four spin-plane sensors and two axial antennas. SPEDAS provides command line and GUI access to the MMS EDP data.

Release notes can be found here:

https://lasp.colorado.edu/mms/sdc/public/datasets/fields/ (EDP Data Products Guide v06)

For basic command line access see:

/projects/mms/examples/basic/mms_load_edp_crib.pro

EDP Data

L2

EDP l2 DCE data

To load EDP l2pre data for MMS1 on October 16, 2015:

<syntaxhighlight lang="idl"> MMS> mms_load_edp, probe='1', trange=['2015-10-16/06:00','2015-10-16/16:00'], level='l2'

MMS> tplot, 'mms1_edp_dce*' </syntaxhighlight>

Quicklook

EDP quicklook DCE data

To load EDP quicklook data for MMS1 on October 16, 2015:

<syntaxhighlight lang="idl"> MMS> mms_load_edp, probes=1, trange=['2015-10-16/06:00','2015-10-16/16:00'], level='ql'

MMS> tplot, 'mms1_edp_dce_xyz*' </syntaxhighlight>