MAGION 3 - SGR-6,7: 0-20 Hz, 3-Component Ferrosond Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person M. Ciobanu
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) ISS        (ROM)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person ciobanum@ifin.nipne.ro
Type of experiment Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer
References about the experiment A subsatellite for mother-daughter active space experiments (E68.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1991-086E&ex=1
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 28-12-1991
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 20-08-1992
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 8
Highest data rate 40.96 kbps
Preliminary results Multiple current sheets in a double auroral oval observed from
the MAGION-2 and MAGION-3 satellites (R68.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) The three components of the magnetic field
Data range 0 - 20 Hz
±6256 nT and ±50048 nT
Sensitivity 2 nT and 16 nT
Time resolution 100 ms
Sampling rate 10 samples/s
Data formats and supports ASCII Files on CD-ROM ("The MAGION-3 Field Aligned Study Database")
Location of the data ISS and GFZ
References about the data ?????
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) M. Echim    ISS    (echim@venus.nipne.ro)
or M. Foerster    GFZ    (mf@gfz-potsdam.de)