Propagation Tool release notes

2025/09/16: V2.13

• New deployment method
• Oracle JavaFX replaced by openJFX and embeded OpenJDK
• WIND data added to Radio tool
• PFSS and Parker lines added to 3D panel

2025/04/29: V2.12

• New component: ‘Radio Interface’.Provides possibility to plot dynamic radio spectra in 2 day window using observations from different spacecrafts. Only STA/WAVES and PSP/FIELDS data accessible for the moment. Possibility to make fits using Mann et al 2023 or Leblanc et al 1993 coronal density models
• Radial propagation component, new functionality if Drag model activate (activeted by Plot button’): tracing the CME speed at different impacted targets throughout the Heliosphere
• Webservice call on CDPP interface: reinitialised at each click
• Solar Orbiter data integrated. ‘SEP plot’ component: EPD/HET data , ‘V plot’ component: in-situ solar wind speed from SWA/PAS instrument
• Europa Clipper mission added in Ecliptic plane and other components
• Bug fixes. (1) Click to fit in J-map for Radial Propagation: possible to have speeds larger than 800 km/s. (2) Fixed a bug in spacecraft positions in the ecliptic plane

2024/11/15: V2.11

• New presentation of PFFS magnetic field lines inside the ‘Carrington map’ bloc
• 'SEP plot': menu for Catalogues added
• 'SEP plot': new display mode VDA (velocity dispersion analysis)
• CDPP interface updated
• 3D shockwave visualisation component: arrow removed, possibility to modify min and max of the colorbar

2024/06/18: V2.10

• Ecliptic plane with planets and spacecrafts positions at current time are now directly displayed at the startup
• Https protocol was put in place

2023/09/18: V2.9

• Reworking the access to Helioviewer from Propagation Tool

2023/06/15: V2.8

• Sliders added in the case the screen resolution is too low
• New end points for the tool: New horizons, Voyager 1 and 2, Pioneer 10 and 11
• Improvements to the 'SEP plot' component
• Improvements to the '3D' shockwave component

2023/04/05: V2.7

• New tool component: '3D Shocks'. Displays the evolution of reconstructed Coronal Shock waves. Available on the left-side of the tool in replacement of the ecliptic plane component. Parameters such as shocks velocity, Alfvenic and fast magneto sonic Mach numbers, compression ratio can be shown. See Kouloumvakos et al. ApJ 2019 for details of the shock catalogue. This component was developed for the needs SERPENTINE EU H2020 project, https://serpentine-h2020.eu/
• Updated display of Fermi-LAT solar flux at >100MeV in the component Flux Plot -> Gamma. Proper account of data gaps.

2022/12/19: V2.6.1

• Reworked zoom functionality in VPlot and Flux plot interfaces
• Heliospheric current sheet is now plotted over Magnetograms in the Carrington map interface. Shown using dashed red line
• Precision about required screen resolution in FAQ (1280 x 768)
• SEP fluxes are now shown using dot symbols instead of line
• Fixed SOHO webservice in ‘Helioviewer’ interface
• Added ROSETTA, JUNO, CASSINI, MGS and MESSENGER targets in CDPP interface

2022/07/01: V2.5

• PFSS model can now be used to localise magnetic footprints of Planets/Spacecrafts on Carrington Maps
• In-situ catalogues are now shown as timetable scrollable menu
• VPLOT component: better handling of data gaps
• Xml export is not automatically opened in text editor anymore

2022/03/29: V2.4

• SEP Plot : Energetic particles flux display
• Soft X-Ray display evolution
• Added CDPP interface that plots energetic protons and electrons fluxes
• Different anomalies corrected

2021/06/14: V2.3.1

• Ecliptic plane component: the size of the Sun is fixed to its real size
• Ecliptic plane: the Color of the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) mission is now yellow (instead of blue previously)
• J-map component: orbits of probes and planets are overplotted using more points. Allows to accurately plot rapidly moving objects
• Flux Plot component: Display of gamma-ray flux (>100 MeV energy) as observed by Fermi-LAT. Y-axis range and Y-axis label are corrected

2019/11/28: V2.2.7

• Flux Plot component: Display of gamma-ray flux (>100 MeV energy) as observed by Fermi-LAT
• Carrington map component: New datasets available on right clic Carrington map -> Model -> PFSS, and Carrington map -> MODEL -> Multi-VP
• PFSS connectivity in Carrington map component: Field lines -> PFSS

2019/05/13: V2.2.6

• Shockwave catalogue integration
• HELCATS LINKCAT catalogue integration
• New Field of views for Solar orbiter and Parker Solar Probe

2018/07/12: V2.2.4

• MEDOC interface improvement
• Magnetic connectivity of spacecraft (PFSS+spiral)
• Display of soft X-ray flux
• New spacecrafts : Solar orbiter, Parker Solar Probe, Bepi Colombo, Juice

2018/02/05: V2.2.3

• propagation of CME/CIR (from HELCATS catalogues) to planets
• Connexion to APIS (auroral imagery) via EPN-TAP
• off-ecliptic view
• comet orbits now included