IDL and YOU...perfect together!
Well, we graduate students are in it for the long haul (some days it seems longer than others!!). One of the things that I have found to be useful is to have access to basic IDL commands so that I may push forward the frontiers of Jovian magnetospheric physics more quickly.
Aren't you inspired?
This page should give you an idea of how to do basic things in IDL like reading and writing files, plotting or displaying your results, etc. Feel free to contact me if you have any questions. Also, rember that in IDL you can always type in "?" to get their nifty on-line help.
Below are sample outputs for the synchrotron model we developed for my MS thesis and for the Jovian aurora that I'm doing for my Ph. D. Some of the idl software that I used to generate the images below can be found by clicking here.
A model of synchrotron radiation from Jupiter's inner radiation zone. This map indicates intense emissions in the equatorial region as well as in high-latitude lobes.
A plot of DN vs. Pitch Angle during the Ganymede 2 encounter for the Galileo spacecraft. This plot of Energetic Particle Data shows the isotropic nature of the pitch angle distribution for low-energy electrons in the equatorial region. The lack of anisotropy suggests the presence of some-sort of scattering mechanism that fills in the loss cone.
Bidushi Bhattacharya
Dept of Atmos Sciences
UCLA
16 April 1998
bhattach@atmos.ucla.edu