Solar-Terrestrial data Analysis and Reference System STARS version 5 Center for Information Technology Ehime University Ken T. Murata

Introduction Solar-Terrestrial data sites in Japan HTTP/public SFTP/members only FTPS/restricted FTP/public Web Service /public SFTP /members only /restricted Widely distributed data sites over the Internet. Independently defined data access policies. but… No common way to search data over the data sites. No common way to download data file securely.

Introduction What is the STARS? The STARS is a system to search, download, plot and analyze observation data. The target data are observation data in solar-terrestrial physics. The STARS database is a weakly tied distributed database. STARS project STARS user application (on Windows) STARS meta-database STARS download agent STARS manager application (STARDUST)

Introduction Meta-database and Download Agent in STARS Data Providers Download Agent get meta-data download data file STARS application STARS-metaDB

Login Guest ID is available for everyone. Input your e-mail address as a guest password. To get STARS user ID, contact us. Mail address is stars@velvet.cs.ehime-u.ac.jp. Latest messages are shown in the “Message Box”.

Main Dialog New StarsProjectList

Main Dialog Stars ProjectListDialog

Main Dialog Time interval setting No data file (before launch) Data file exist

Main Dialog File download

Main Dialog Data access request

Main Dialog Main dialog settings

Plot dialog data plot (AE indices and GEOTAIL/PWI/SFA)

Multi-channel plot band selection

Multi-channel plot data analysis dialog

Orbit plot on Google Earth

3D plot Global MHD simulation with real parameters

Stars Project List Stars Project List Stars Project List is an XML format data. It includes user name, data names, data file names and event information. Save and exchange your data plot with it. Stars Project List STARS File search STARS Data plot

Stars Project List file open & save

Image data plot sequential view of aurora (related with AKR)

Multi-satellite orbits GSM/GSE coordinate

Event registration an example of plasmoid event

SPL link to Journal/Paper http://www.agu.org/journals/ja/ja9611/96JA02515.pdf (AGU ID required)

If you are interested in STARS STARS application It works on PC (Windows) only. Free download at STARS web page (see below). Latest version is 5.0.2.3 (12 Nov. 2006). To get your STARS ID, contact us. Any data provider is welcome to join STARS project. Let us set “RSS feed” in your site to provide meta-data. STARS office e-mail address stars@velvet.cs.ehime-u.ac.jp Web page http://www.infonet.cite.ehime-u.ac.jp/STARS