rss_ringoccs package

License and Copyright:

Copyright (C) 2019 Team Cassini

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

This program is part of the rss_ringoccs repository hosted at https://github.com/NASA-Planetary-Science/rss_ringoccs and developed with the financial support of NASA’s Cassini Mission to Saturn.

Purpose:
Provide tools for analysis of ring occultation experiments, particularly those pertaining to the Cassini Radio Science Experiment, based on methods from [MTR1986] and [CRSUG2018]. This software package contains methods for reading and extracting RSR data, computing occultation geometry, calibrating RSR data, and performing diffraction reconstruction for calibrated data at different resolutions. Also included are tools for writing and reading the data products output by the software.
Dependencies:
  1. numpy
  2. spiceypy
  3. scipy
  4. time
  5. sys
  6. subprocess
  7. pdb
  8. pandas
  9. matplotlib
  10. os
  11. platform
References:
[MTR1986]Essam A. Marouf, G. Leonard Tyler, Paul A. Rosen, “Profiling Saturn’s rings by radio occultation”. Icarus, Volume 68, Issue 1, 1986, Pages 120-166, https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(86)90078-3
[CRSUG2018]Cassini Radio Science User’s Guide.
[GRESH86]Gresh et al. (1986) “An analysis of bending waves in Saturn’s rings using Voyager radio occultation data”. Icarus 68, 481-502.
[NICH14]Philip D. Nicholson, Richard G. French, Colleen A. McGhee-French, Matthew M. Hedman, Essam A. Marouf, Joshua E. Colwell, Katherine Lonergan, Talia Sepersky. “Noncircular features in Saturn’s rings II: The C ring”. Icarus, Volume 241, 2014, Pages 373-396, ISSN 0019-1035. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2014.06.024 or http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019103514003443
[NAIF]NASA JPL/NAIF spice toolkit https://naif.jpl.nasa.gov/pub/naif/toolkit_docs/Tutorials/ pdf/individual_docs/27_derived_quant.pdf