AMPTE / UKS - Triaxial Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person Malcolm Dunlop
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) ACSE        (UK)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person m.dunlop@ic.ac.uk
Type of experiment Three-axis orthogonal fluxgate magnetometer with ring-core sensors
References about the experiment The Fluxgate Magnetometer for the AMPTE UK Subsatellite (E5.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1984-088C&ex=4
http://sd-www.jhuapl.edu/AMPTE/uks.html
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 20-08-1984
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 15-01-1985
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 5
Highest data rate 8 kbps
Preliminary results (R5.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) 3 components of the magnetic field
Data range ± 256 nT and ± 8192 nT
Sensitivity 0.03 nT and 1 nT
Time resolution 5s
Sampling rate 32 vector samples per second
Data formats and supports Microfiche
Location of the data NSSDC and UK Co-ordinated Data Handeling facility for Solar Terrestrial Physics
References about the data http://cdhf.bnsc.rl.ac.uk:8080/STP_CDHF/home.htm
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????