Technical Article

Development of ground pipeline system for high-level scientific data products of the Hisaki satellite mission and its application to planetary space weather

¹ Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences, Tohoku University, 6-3, Aza-Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
² Institute of Space and Astronautical Science, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, 3-1-1, Yoshinodai, Chu-ou-ku, Sagamihara, Japan
³ Department of Complexity Science and Engineering, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5, Kashiwa-no-ha, Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
⁴ Planetary Plasma and Atmospheric Research Center, Tohoku University, 6-3, Aza-Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
⁵ National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, 4-2-1, Nukui-Kitamachi, Koganei, Tokyo, Japan
⁶ Space and Terrestrial Plasma Physics Laboratory, Tohoku University, 6-3, Aza-Aoba, Aramaki, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Japan
⁷ Misato Observatory, 180, Matsugamine, Kimino-cho, Kaisou-gun, Wakayama, Japan

^* Corresponding author: kimura@stpp.gp.tohoku.ac.jp

Received: 13 July 2018
Accepted: 23 January 2019

Abstract

The Hisaki satellite is the first-ever space telescope mission dedicated to planetary sciences. Atmospheres and magnetospheres of our solar system planets are continuously monitored by the extreme ultraviolet (EUV) spectrometer onboard Hisaki. This paper describes a data pipeline system developed for processing high-level scientific and ancillary data products from the Hisaki mission. The telemetry data downlinked from the satellite are stored in a ground telemetry database, processed in the pipeline to imaging spectral data with a 1-min temporal resolution and ancillary data products, and then archived in a public database. The imaging spectra can be further reduced to higher-level data products for practical scientific use. For example, light curves of the power emitted from Jupiter’s aurora and plasma torus with a temporal resolution of 10-min can be reduced from the imaging spectral data; the reduced light curves reveal the transport processes of energy and mass in Jupiter’s magnetosphere and associated interplanetary solar wind conditions. Continuous monitoring with Hisaki will contribute considerably to our understanding of space weather relating to planets in our solar system.