| PI of the experiment or contact person | Bodo W. Reinisch |
|---|---|
| Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) | UML (USA) |
| E-mail of the PI or of the contact person | bodo_reinisch@uml.edu |
| Type of experiment | The RPI instrument is a low-power radar which operates in the radio
frequency bands which contain the plasma resonance frequencies characteristic of the Earth's magnetosphere (3 kHz to 3 MHz). The RPI instrument consists of an electronics enclosure, four 250 m wire antennae with deployers (including switches and couplers), and a z-axis boom canister containing two 10 m lattice boom antennae and two preamplifiers. |
| References about the experiment | The Radio Plasma Imager investigation on the IMAGE spacecraft (E?.1) |
| Link(s) to Web site(s) | http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/rpi/
http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/tmp/2000-017A&ex=1.html |
| Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | 25-03-00 |
| End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) | ????? |
| Lifetime of the experiment (month) | ????? |
| Highest data rate | 5.6 kbps |
| Preliminary results | (R?.1) |
| Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) | Electron density and temperature, electric field and scalar magnetic field. |
| Data range | 3 kHz - 3 MHz N : 1.10-1 - 1.105 cm-3 |
| Sensitivity | 1% for frequency, 10% for density, 100 pV.m-1 for E |
| Time resolution | 1 sec |
| Sampling rate | 625 samples/s |
| Data formats and supports | Internet |
| Location of the data | http://150.144.211.77/image/image_main.html and Online (NSSDCftp) |
| References about the data | ????? |
| High-resolution data (support, place, contact) | Bodo W. Reinisch (bodo_reinisch@uml.edu) |