PI of the experiment or contact person | Donald A. Gurnett |
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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) | ????? |