The dataset stored here is associated with Solar Physics article

  DOI:10.1007/s11207-015-0810-0
Any questions should be directed to the article authors.


The dataset consists of two files:

  1) bison-allsites-1995-2014.fits.gz

     This FITS file contains data from the Birmingham Solar
     Oscillations Network (BiSON) covering the period 1995 January 1
     to 2014 December 31.  These data were used to produce the figures
     in the "Whole Network Performance" section of the article.  The
     FITS header file details the parameters that were used to
     concatenate the daily data into a single time series, and this
     information is repeated below for reference.

       SIMPLE  =                    T / Written by IDL:  Wed May 27 11:08:33 2015      
       BITPIX  =                  -64 /Real*8 (double precision)                       
       NAXIS   =                    2 /                                                
       NAXIS1  =                    2 /                                                
       NAXIS2  =             15778799 /                                                
       D-START =        2449718.50000 /Data start (Julian)                             
       D-END   =        2457023.50000 /Data end (Julian)                               
       STATIONS= 'na ca cb su iz la mo' /Stations Used                                 
       METHOD  = 'waverage'           /Overlap Method                                  
       CADENCE = '40      '           /Timeseries Cadence                              
       N-THRES =                  100 /Noise Rejection Threshold                       
       FILL    =             0.783800 /Duty Cycle                                      
       COMMENT Generated by BiSON                                                      
       COMMENT $Id: svnid.s 194 2011-11-15 10:13:23Z hale $                            
       END                                                                             

  2) bison-control-1995-2014.tar.gz

     This gzipped tar-archive contains the ASCII "control" metadata
     files that define the data availability per BiSON-site.  These
     metadata were used to produce the figures in the "Site
     Performance" section of the article.