| PI of the experiment or contact person | Pierrette Décréau |
|---|---|
| Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) | LPCE (FRA) |
| E-mail of the PI or of the contact person | pdecreau@cnrs-orleans.fr |
| Type of experiment | The experiment consists on a sounder that can be in passive mode to measure
(via passive wave analysis) the natural wave emissions in high-frequency range, (4-80 KHz) or in active mode (emission of short pulses of sine wave during 1 millisecond and listenning to the electric field signal transmitted to the other antennas) to identify the plasma resonances and then the total electron density. |
| References about the experiment | Whisper, a Resonance Sounder and Wave Analyser: Performances and Perspectives for the Cluster Mission (E?.4) |
| Link(s) to Web site(s) | http://lpce.cnrs-orleans.fr/gb/gb_experim/t_exper9-1-1-12.htm
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/2000-045A&ex=11.html |
| Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | 01-02-2001 |
| End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | ????? |
| Lifetime of the experiment (month) | ????? |
| Highest data rate | 5.8 kbps |
| Preliminary results | (R?.4) |
| Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) | The natural wave emissions (passive mode of the sounder) and the electron density (active mode). |
| Data range | E : 2-80 kHz N : 0.2-80 cm-3 |
| Sensitivity | E : 2.10-9 V.m-1.Hz-1/2 N : 1 % |
| Time resolution | E : 0.32-2.15 s N : 1.5 s |
| Sampling rate | E : 36000 samples per second |
| Data formats and supports | CD-Rom and Internet |
| Location of the data | http://sci2.estec.esa.nl/cluster/csds/ring.html
http://www.whisper.cnrs-orleans.fr/ |
| References about the data | ftp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/csds/task_for/users_guide/csds_guide.html |
| High-resolution data (support, place, contact) | Pierrette Décréau (pdecreau@cnrs-orleans.fr) |