padre_meddea

A Python package to process and analyze data from the Measuring Directivity to Determine Electron Anisotropy (MeDDEA) instrument on the NASA solar PolArization and Directivity X-Ray Experiment (PADRE) small satellite mission.

PADRE launched on July 23rd, 2025.

Data will become available soon.

For information about the PADRE mission, see PADRESat.

Table of Contents:

• Citing
  • Citing in Publications
• User’s Guide
  • Overview
    • Publications and Presentations
  • Data
    • Data Description
    • Reading data
    • Calibrated data
    • File Naming Conventions
  • Level 0 Data
    • Overview
      • Level 0 event files
        • Primary HDU
        • PKT HDU
        • SCI HDU
      • Level 0 spectrum files
      • Level 0 housekeeping files
  • Selecting Pixels
  • Photon Data
    • PhotonList
      • padre_meddea.spectrum.spectrum.PhotonList
        • PhotonList
    • Decimation
      • A sample decimation configuration table
    • Energy Calibration
    • Detector Response Matrix (DRM)
  • Spectrum Data
    • SpectrumList
      • padre_meddea.spectrum.spectrum.SpectrumList
        • SpectrumList
  • Searching for and Downloading Data
    • Introduction
    • PADREClient and DataType
    • Attributes for Searching Data
    • Examples for Searching Data
      • Example 1: Searching for Spectrum Data
      • Example 2: Searching for Level 1 Data
      • Example 3: Searching for Level 1 Photon Data
      • Example 4: Searching for Raw Data
      • Example 5: Searching for Raw Housekeeping Data
    • Downloading Data
  • Customization and Global Configuration
    • The config.yml file
    • Sample data download directory
  • Logging system
    • Overview
• Developer’s Guide
  • Developer Environment
    • Visual Studio Code
      • Setup
  • Coding Standards
    • Language Standard
    • Coding Style/Conventions
    • Private code
    • Documentation and Testing
    • Data and Configuration
    • Standard output and errors
    • Logging and all other messages
    • Including C Code
  • Testing Guidelines
    • Writing tests
      • Where to put tests
      • doctests
      • Bugs Testing
  • Documentation Rules
    • Overview
      • Referring to other code
      • Project-specific Rules
    • Sphinx
      • Usage and Building the documentation
        • HTML
  • Workflow for Maintainers
    • Integrating changes via the web interface (recommended)
      • When to remove or combine/squash commits
      • When to rebase
      • A few commits
      • A long series of commits
      • Check the history
      • Push to open pull request
    • IOssue Milestones and Labels
    • Updating and Maintaining the Changelog
    • Releases
  • Global Settings
• API Reference
  • padre_meddea
  • padre_meddea.spectrum.spectrum
  • padre_meddea.spectrum.calibration
  • padre_meddea.spectrum.raw
  • padre_meddea.util.pixels
  • padre_meddea.util.util
  • padre_meddea.calibration.calibration
  • padre_meddea.calibration.decimation
  • padre_meddea.housekeeping.calibration
  • padre_meddea.housekeeping.housekeeping
  • padre_meddea.housekeeping.register
  • padre_meddea.io.file_tools
  • padre_meddea.io.fits_tools
  • padre_meddea.io.aws_db
  • padre_meddea.io.amptek
  • padre_meddea.net.client
• CMAD
  • 1. Scope
  • 2. Related Documentations
    • 2.1. Applicable Documents
    • 2.2. Applicable Software
  • 3. Housekeeping Calibration
    • 3.1. hvps_temp
    • 3.2. dib_temp
    • 3.3. fp_temp
    • 3.4. hvps_vsense
    • 3.5. hvps_csense
    • 3.6. csense_15v
    • 3.7. csense_33vd
    • 3.8. csense_33va
    • 3.9. hvps_setpoint
  • 4. Overview and Background Information
    • 4.1. Science Objectives
    • 4.2. <Instrument name> Instrument Description
    • 4.3. Measurement Concept
    • 4.4. Instrument Subsystem Descriptions
      • 4.4.1. <Subsystem name>
      • 4.4.2. <Instrument name> Heritage
        • 4.4.2.1. Subsystem Heritage
          • 4.4.2.1.1. Algorithm and Calibration Heritage
  • 5. MEDDEA Calibration Plan
    • 5.1. Overall Calibration Scheme
    • 5.2. Pre-flight Calibration Plans
      • 5.2.1. <Subsystem name> Pre-flight Calibrations
    • 5.3. Instrument Description
    • 5.4. In-flight Tracking of Short-Term Changes
    • 5.5. Long-term Absolute Calibration Tracking (Re-Calibration)
    • 5.6. Validation
  • 6. MEDDEA Measurement Algorithm Description
    • 6.1. Theoretical basis
    • 6.2. Conversion of Instrument Signals to <Measurable units>
      • 6.2.1. Measurement Equations
    • 6.3. Signal Estimates and Error Analyses for Subsystems
      • 6.3.1. <Subsystem name> Signal Estimates and Error Analysis
    • 6.4. Preflight Calibration Algorithms
    • 6.5. Appendix A. List of Variable Definitions
  • 7. Amptek Reference Detector
    • 7.1. Overview
• Releases