EXOS-D - Very Low Frequency Wave Detectors (VLF)


PI of the experiment or contact person I. Kimura
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) GSEC-UK       (JPN)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person kimura@kuee.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Type of experiment A pair of crossed dipole wire antennas (60 m tip-to-tip) shielded for 3 m
nearest to the spacecraft and 3 orthogonal open loop antennas
installed on the tip of a 1.5 m mast
References about the experiment VLF Observations by the Akebono ( EXOS-D ) Satellite (E20.3)
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Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 06-03-1989
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) *****
Lifetime of the experiment (month) *****
Highest data rate 64 kbps
Preliminary results Antenna vector impedance measurement by the EXOS-D (Akebono)
very low frequency plasma wave instrument (VLF) (R20.3)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) The electric and magnetic field components
Data range 3.16 Hz - 17.8 kHz
Sensitivity B : 0.2 pT/Hz1/2 (100 Hz)
Time resolution 8 s
Sampling rate 4 samples per second
Data formats and supports Optical and magnetic disks
Location of the data ISAS       (JPN)
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High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????