How to use RPW data ?
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.
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:
Analysis of LFR L2 data using spacepy Python module:
All RPW tutorial files are freely available on https://gitlab.obspm.fr/rpw/tutorials
- 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.
- 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.
- TOPCAT
TOPCAT is an interactive graphical viewer and editor for tabular data. It understands a number of different astronomically important formats, including CDF.