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

2. 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.

3. 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)

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

5. Login
Guest ID is available for everyone. Input your address as a guest password.
To get STARS user ID, contact us. Mail address is
Latest messages are shown in the “Message Box”.

6. Main Dialog New StarsProjectList

7. Main Dialog Stars ProjectListDialog

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

9. Main Dialog File download

10. Main Dialog Data access request

11. Main Dialog Main dialog settings

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

13. Multi-channel plot band selection

14. Multi-channel plot data analysis dialog

15. Orbit plot on Google Earth

16. 3D plot Global MHD simulation with real parameters

17. 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

18. Stars Project List file open & save

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

20. Multi-satellite orbits GSM/GSE coordinate

21. Event registration an example of plasmoid event

22. SPL link to Journal/Paper
(AGU ID required)

23. 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 (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
address
Web page