Data products descriptions are detailed in a dedicated webpage. Same for RPW data standards. Please visite those pages if you have any questions/needs about RPW data.



How to read the RPW science data files?

RPW science data are provided as NASA Common Data Format (CDF) files. Visit official NASA CDF Web site for more details about CDF format and how to read it.



Examples of RPW data usage

Solar Orbiter 8th Workshop RPW TDS & TNR data tutorials using cdflib and maser4py:


Analysis of TNR and LFR L2 data using pyrfu Python module:


Analysis of LFR L2 data using spacepy Python module:


All RPW tutorial files are freely available on https://gitlab.obspm.fr/rpw/tutorials



User Supplied Software

  • MASER4PY
    MASER4PY is a Python 3 package to handle radio data, including RPW.
  • MASER4IDL
    MASER4IDL is an IDL library with some readers for RPW data.
  • TOPCAT
    TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats, including CDF.