Explorer 45 - AC Electric Field Measurement


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 electric dipole antenna consisted of two boom-mounted graphite coated spheres,
14 cm in diameter, with a center-to-center separation of 5.08 m
References about the experiment S3-A Spacecraft and Experiment Description (E25.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1971-096A&ex=7
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 15-11-1971
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 15-03-1973
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 16
Highest data rate 446 bps
Preliminary results The convection electric field model for the magnetosphere
based on Explorer 45 observations (R25.4)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) AC electric field
Data range 35 Hz - 100 kHz
Sensitivity 10 µV.m-1
Time resolution ?????
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports Restored Tape, Digital Magnetic Tape and Microfilm
Location of the data NSSDC
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1971-096A&ex=7&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????