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      <ResourceName>ACE Electron Proton Alpha Monitor (EPAM) CA60 PHA Ion SEP Event Matrix Data, 17 min Averages</ResourceName>
      <AlternateName>EPAM-PHA-EVENT</AlternateName>
      <DOI>https://doi.org/10.48322/6mqq-dp50</DOI>
      <ReleaseDate>2026-07-21T12:03:34Z</ReleaseDate>
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      <Description>Pulse Height Analyzer matrix data for a single Solar Energetic Particle event from the ACE:EPAM instrument. Using the PHA data, one can quickly and very accurately determine composition.</Description>
      <Acknowledgement>Thomas P. Armstrong, Fundamental Technologies LLC</Acknowledgement>
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        <Authors>Gold, R.E., Roelof, E.C., Krimigis, S., Haggerty, D., Armstrong, T., Manweiler, J.W., and Patterson, J.D.</Authors>
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        <URL>http://data.ftecs.com/VHO/VEPO/ace_epam/explanation-csv-files.html</URL>
        <Description>The Explanation HTML page at Fundamental Technologies describes how the numeric data from the ACE EPAM instrument are divided into different print-groups, the nomenclature of the ASCII-based comma-separated variable (CSV) files, and how those files can be accessed.</Description>
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        <Description>Parent directory containing the PHA event data for the ACE/EPAM instrument for the entire mission.</Description>
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      <Acknowledgement>Thomas P. Armstrong, Fundamental Technologies LLC</Acknowledgement>
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      <Name>Time for the record</Name>
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      <Description>Time for the record given in year, day of year, hour, min, and decimal seconds. The given time represents the beginning of the event interval.</Description>
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      <Name>Number of Events</Name>
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      <Description>Number of C/D pairs contained in this event file.</Description>
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      <ValidMax>1024</ValidMax>
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      <Name>Event time offset</Name>
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      <Description>Time offset for a given C/D pair in hundredths of a second</Description>
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      <ValidMax>204800</ValidMax>
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      <Description>Sector, 1-8, in which the C/D event pair occurs.</Description>
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      <ValidMax>8</ValidMax>
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      <Name>C1 Digitized Height</Name>
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      <Description>Digitized pulse height from the first sampling of the C detector.</Description>
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      <ValidMax>255</ValidMax>
      <FillValue>null</FillValue>
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    <Parameter>
      <Name>Priority Schedule</Name>
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      <Description>Schedule for species priority: 0 - Fe, O, He, H 1 - O, Fe, H, He 2 - H, Fe, O, He 3 - He, Fe, O, H</Description>
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