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MNT/FIX: Update Lo exposure time calculations for off-angle bins#2611

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MNT/FIX: Update Lo exposure time calculations for off-angle bins#2611
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This updates the exposure time calculation for Lo pointing sets.

  • Accounts for off-angle bins by sampling a nominal (5) set of spins during a pointing at 4096 (nticks/spin?) samples, seeing what bins those fall into. We then histogram the off-angle components to get an off-angle distribution that can be applied evenly to all spin-bins.
  • Then, the total pointing time is divided equally into all spin_bins, then multiplied by the off-angle fraction above.
  • Finally, the goodtimes bins are turned into a fractional mask. The fractional mask is applied to (esa_energy_step, spin_bin), to account for how much time a given energy step and spin bin were a part of the total exposure time.

@greglucas greglucas added this to the January 2026 milestone Jan 26, 2026
@greglucas greglucas self-assigned this Jan 26, 2026
@greglucas greglucas added Ins: Lo Related to the IMAP-Lo instrument Level: L1 Level 1 processing labels Jan 26, 2026
@greglucas greglucas force-pushed the lo-exposure-time-updates branch from 72669b9 to b753faf Compare January 26, 2026 22:11
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LGTM

@greglucas greglucas merged commit 8fb086b into IMAP-Science-Operations-Center:dev Jan 26, 2026
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@greglucas greglucas deleted the lo-exposure-time-updates branch January 26, 2026 23:19
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