Hawkeye 1 - Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person James A. Van Allen
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) DPA-UI        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person vanallen@iowasp.physics.uiowa.edu
Type of experiment A four-range, triaxial fluxgate magnetometer mounted on a 1.52 m boom
References about the experiment (E39.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1974-040A&ex=1
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/hawkeye/hawkeye.html#instrument_overview
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 03-07-1974
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 28-04-1978
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 47
Highest data rate 200 bps
Preliminary results Observations of the Earth's polar cleft at large radial distances with
the Hawkeye-1 magnetometer (R39.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) All three components of the magnetic field
Data range ± 150 nT or ± 450 nT or ± 1500 nT or ± 25000 nT
Sensitivity 1.2 nT or 3.5 nT or 11.7 nT or 195.3 nT
Time resolution 5.72 s
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports 4-mm Tape and Online
Location of the data NSSDC and Online (CDAWeb)
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1974-040A&ex=1&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/hawkeye/hawkeye.html