Rules of use: The CIRBE/REPTile-2 data are available for science research. Users should contact the PI, professor Xinlin Li, to discuss the possible issues and appropriate applications of these data. Users publishing results should provide appropriate acknowledgement and should provide the version number of the data being used.
Acknowledgments: The REPTile-2 data are provided by the University of Colorado; the REPTile-2 PI is Dr. Xinlin Li. The references below can be cited for the REPTile-2 data products.
Reference 1: Li, X., Kohnert, R., Palo, S., Selesnick, R., Khoo, L.-Y., Schiller, Q., et al. (2022). Two Generations of CubeSat Missions (CSSWE and CIRBE) to Take on the Challenges of Measuring Relativistic Electrons in the Earth’s Magnetosphere. Proceedings of the Small Satellite Conference, SSC22-III-03. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/smallsat/2022/all2022/152/
Reference 2: Khoo, L.-Y., Li, X., Selesnick, R. S., Schiller, Q., Zhang, K., Zhao, H., et al. (2022). On the challenges of measuring energetic particles in the inner belt: A Geant4 simulation of an energetic particle detector instrument, REPTile-2. Journal of Geophysical Research: Space Physics, 127, e2021JA030249. https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JA030249
Reference 3: Li, X., Selesnick, R., Mei, Y., O’Brien, D., Hogan, B., Xiang, Z., et al. (2024). First results from REPTile-2 measurements onboard CIRBE. Geophysical Research Letters, 51, e2023GL107521. https://doi.org/10.1029/2023GL107521
Data products: The REPTile-2 data are packaged as netCDF files, one for each day that the science instruments were turned on and collecting data. Days where science data were not collected do not have a corresponding file. The data were packaged via MATLAB but can be restored in any environment that supports netCDF. The code used to process the data is available here.
Files are named ‘CIRBE_REPTile-2_L1_xxxxxxxxvX_X.nc’ where xxxxxxxx is the date in yyyymmdd format and X_X is the version number. For example, the file for April 19th, 2023 is called ‘CIRBE_REPTile-2_L1_20230419v2_0.nc’. The download link leads to a Dropbox folder containing the files for each day there is data. You are free to download the files for the days you are interested in.
To convert counts information to fluxes, use the channel energies and geometric factors times energy channel width (GdE) found in the .xlsx file here (or in the .csv file here). For more information about the instrument, click here.
| Data Product Level | Full Description | Download (netCDF) |
| Level 1 | Level 1 Science Data Description | v2 (v1) |
We acknowledge the use of the IRBEM library (4.4.0), the latest version of which can be found at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6867552.
Contacts:
- Principal investigator: xinlin.li@lasp.colorado.edu
- Data processing code authors: david.brennan@lasp.colorado.edu, yang.mei@lasp.colorado.edu