OGO 5 - Plasma Wave Detector


PI of the experiment or contact person Robert W. Fredricks
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) TRW-STG        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person ?????
Type of experiment 5 electric dipoles and three orthogonal search-coil magnetometers
mounted on a 6.7-m boom. The three 0.5-m orthogonal electric dipoles
were normal to the planes of the magnetometers.
References about the experiment The OGO-5 Plasma Wave Detector Instrumentation
and IN-Flight Operation (E74.4)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1968-014A&ex=24
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 12-03-1968
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 12-05-1969
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 14
Highest data rate 64 kbps
Preliminary results OGO-5. observations of auroral electric field noise above
the equatorial electron cyclotron frequency (R74.4)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Electric field and magnetic field measurement
Data range 0.56 - 70 kHz
Sensitivity ?????
Time resolution 9.2 s
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports 35-mm Microfilm, Magnetic tape
Location of the data NSSDC
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1968-014A&ex=24&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????