Hawkeye 1 - ELF/VLF Receivers


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 A 42.7 m electric dipole antenna (tip-to-tip) and a search coil antenna
deployed 1.58 m from the spacecraft
References about the experiment Direction-Finding Measurements of Auroral Kilometric Radiation (E39.2)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1974-040A&ex=3
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 A Region of Intense Plasma Wave Turbulence on Auroral Field Lines (R39.2)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Electric and magnetic fields
Data range E : 1.78 Hz - 178 kHz
B : 1.78 Hz - 5.62 kHz
Sensitivity E : 1.10-6 V.m-1
B : 0.1 nT (1.78 Hz)
3.4.10-4 nT (5.62 kHz)
Time resolution 11.52 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=3&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????