Dynamics Explorer 1 - Plasma Wave Instrument (PWI)


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 A 200 m long wire electric antenna (in the spacecraft spin plane),
an 8 m tubular electric antenna (along the spacecraft spin axis),
a short 0.6 m electric antenna (perpendicular to the long wire antenna),
a magnetic loop antenna (perpendicular to the spin axis) and
a magnetic search coil antenna (parallel to the spacecraft spin axis)
References about the experiment The plasma wave and quasi-static electric field instrument (PWI)
for Dynamics Explorer-A (E13.2)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1981-070A&ex=2
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/de/home.html
ftp://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/misc/docs/b46586.txt
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 16-09-1981
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 23-06-1984
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 33
Highest data rate 16.4 kbps
Preliminary results Auroral hiss, Z Mode Radiation, and Auroral Kilometric Radiation
in the Polar Magnetosphere : DE 1 Observations (R13.2)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase,...) DC electric fields, electromagnetic and electrostatic waves
Data range B : 1 Hz - 400 kHz
E-DC : 2mV.m-1 - 2V.m-1
E-AC : 1 Hz - 2 MHz
0.03 µV.m-1 - 100 mV.m-1
Sensitivity ?????
Time resolution ?????
Sampling rate 16 samples per second
Data formats and supports Optical Disk
Location of the data NSSDC and Online (NSSDCftp)
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/cgi-bin/database/
www-nmc?81-070A&ex=2&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????