Equator-S - Magnetic field instrument (MAM)


PI of the experiment or contact person W. Baumjohann
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) MPE        (DEU)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person bj@mpe.mpg.de
Type of experiment Three-axes flux-gate magnetometers, one mounted at the end of a 1.8m boom,
the other 50cm further inboard
References about the experiment The magnetic field experiment onboard Equator-S and its scientific possibilities (E15.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1997-075B&ex=1
http://www.mpe-garching.mpg.de/www_plas/EQS/eq-s-instruments.html#1
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 20-12-1997
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 30-04-1998
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 4
Highest data rate 6 kbps
Preliminary results Waveform and packet structure of lion roars (R15.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Three components of the vector magnetic field (B)
Data range DC - 64Hz
± 250 nT and ± 50000 nT
Sensitivity 8 pT in 250 nT range
Time resolution 1 mn or 1.5 s
Sampling rate 128 vectors par second
Data formats and supports CD-ROM
Location of the data EQUATOR-S Data Center (EDC) at MPE and Online (CDAWeb)
References about the data ?????
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) W. Baumjohann (MPE)     bj@mpe.mpg.de     (64 or 128Hz)