Quality flag definitions are identical for QL and L2 data products
For distribution files
| Bit | Description |
|---|---|
0 | Manually flagged interval |
1 | Overcounting/saturation effects likely present in skymap |
| 2 | Compression pipeline error |
For moments and quicklook files
| Bit | Description |
|---|---|
0 | Manually flagged interval |
1 | Overcounting/saturation effects likely present in skymap |
2 | Reported spacecraft potential above 20V |
3 | Invalid/unavailable spacecraft potential |
4 | Significant (>25%) cold plasma (<10eV) component |
5 | Significant (>25%) hot plasma (>30keV) component |
6 | High sonic Mach number (v/vth > 2.5) |
7 | Low calculated density (n < 0.05 cm^-3) |
8 | BentPipe magnetic field used instead of brst l2pre magnetic field |
9 | Survey l2pre magnetic field used instead of brst l2pre magnetic field (burst only) |
10 | No internally generated photoelectron correction applied (DES only) |
11 | Compression pipeline error |
| 12 | spintone calculation error (DBCS only) |
| 13 | significant (>=20%) penetrating radiation (DIS only) |