Cluster II - Wide Band Data (WBD)


PI of the experiment or contact person Donald A. Gurnett
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) DPA-UI        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person donald-gurnett@uiowa.edu
Type of experiment The WBD instrument processes signals from one of four selectable sensors:
two electric field signals (from the EFW experiment) and two magnetic field signals
(from the STAFF experiment) and provides continuous waveforms.
References about the experiment The Wide-Band Plasma Wave Investigation (E?.5)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/istp/cluster/
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/2000-045A&ex=10.html
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 01-02-2001
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) ?????
Lifetime of the experiment (month) ?????
Highest data rate 73 kbps
Preliminary results (R?.5)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) High-resolution measurements (frequency/time spectra) of both electric
and magnetic fields in selected frequency bands from 25 Hz to 577 kHz.
Data range 25 Hz - 577 kHz
Sensitivity E : 0.3 mV.m-1     B : 3.10-5 nT.Hz-1/2 at 100 Hz
Time resolution 10-20 ms
Sampling rate  
Data formats and supports CD-Rom and Internet
Location of the data http://sci2.estec.esa.nl/cluster/csds/ring.html
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/istp/cluster/
References about the data ftp://ftp.estec.esa.nl/pub/csds/task_for/users_guide/csds_guide.html
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) Donald A. Gurnett (donald-gurnett@uiowa.edu)