Journal article
THE POLAR PLASMA-WAVE INSTRUMENT
Space science reviews, Vol.71(1-4), pp.597-622
02/01/1995
DOI: 10.1007/BF00751343
Abstract
The Plasma Wave Instrument on the Polar spacecraft is designed to provide measurements of plasma waves in the Earth's polar regions over the frequency range from 0.1 Hz to 800 kHz. Three orthogonal electric dipole antennas are used to detect electric fields, two in the spin plane and one aligned along the spacecraft spin axis. A magnetic loop antenna and a triaxial magnetic search coil antenna are used to detect magnetic fields. Signals from these antennas are processed by five receiver systems: a wideband receiver, a high-frequency waveform receiver, a low-frequency waveform receiver, two multichannel analyzers; and a pair of sweep frequency receivers. Compared to previous plasma wave instruments, the Polar plasma wave instrument has several new capabilities. These include (1) an expanded frequency range to improve coverage of both low- and high-frequency wave phenomena, (2) the ability to simultaneously capture signals from six orthogonal electric and magnetic field sensors, and (3) a digital wideband receiver with up to 8-bit resolution and sample rates as high as 249k samples s(-1).
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- THE POLAR PLASMA-WAVE INSTRUMENT
- Creators
- D A Gurnett - University of IowaA M Persoon - University of IowaR F Randall - University of IowaD L Odem - University of IowaS L Remington - University of IowaT F Averkamp - University of IowaM M Debower - University of IowaG B Hospodarsky - University of IowaR L Huff - University of IowaD L Kirchner - University of IowaM A Mitchell - University of IowaB T Pham - University of IowaJ R PhillipsW J Schintler - University of IowaP Sheyko - University of IowaD R Tomash - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Space science reviews, Vol.71(1-4), pp.597-622
- Publisher
- KLUWER ACADEMIC PUBL
- DOI
- 10.1007/BF00751343
- ISSN
- 0038-6308
- eISSN
- 1572-9672
- Number of pages
- 26
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/01/1995
- Academic Unit
- Physics and Astronomy
- Record Identifier
- 9984455266102771
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