This page gives information about how to read and plot RPW data.

The information provided are not exhaustive. Please contact the RPW team for questions or requests concerning the RPW data usage.
RPW data products are described in a dedicated webpage. Information about the metadata standards applied to the Solar Orbiter science data can be found here.

• How to read science data files?
• Examples and tutorials of use
• User supplied softwares

How to read the RPW science data files?

RPW science data are saved in 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:

• Try on Binder
• Source files
• HTML notebooks for TDS and TNR

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

• Try on Binder
• Source files
• HTML notebook

Analysis of LFR L2 data using spacepy Python module:

• Try on Binder
• Source files
• HTML notebook -

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

User Supplied Software

This is a non-exhaustive list of software that can be used to download and/or handle the RPW science data.
Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any RPW data-related software or Web tool to share!

• Erik P G Johansson’s SOAR-mirroring code
  A Python program by Erik Johansson (IRF-Uppsala) for mirroring Solar Orbiter Archive (SOAR) data locally.

• ESA’s "Where is Solar Orbiter" online tool
  A light user-friendly online tool to visualize Solar Orbiter location and trajectory over the mission.

• MASER4IDL
  MASER4IDL is an IDL library with some readers for RPW data.

• MASER4PY
  MASER4PY is a Python 3 package to handle radio data, including RPW.

• PySpedas A Python library that supports multi-mission, multi-instrument retrieval, analysis, and visualization of heliophysics time series data.

• radiospectra A Python software package that provides support for some type of radio spectra in solar physics.

• sunpy-soar
  A python package to fetch and retrieve data from the Solar Orbiter Archive, including RPW data products.

• TOPCAT
  TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats, including CDF.