Prognoz 8 - Three-Axis Fluxgate Magnetometer


PI of the experiment or contact person Sh. S. Dolginov
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) IZMIRAN        (RUS)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person ?????
Type of experiment Two three-axis fluxgate magnetometers (B) and a 4 probes
(a wire 100 mm in diameter) mounted on 2 extended booms
References about the experiment Combined wave experiment on the Prognoz-8 satellite (E79.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) *****
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 25-12-1980
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 10-10-1981
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 11
Highest data rate ?????
Preliminary results ULF/ELF Plasma Waves in the Active Regions of the Magnetosphere (R79.1a)
ELF plasma waves associated with plasma jets near the Earth magnetopause
as observed by Prognoz-8 (R79.1b)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Vector magnetic field and electric field components
Data range 0.1 - 105 Hz
B : ± 50 nT
E : 0.002 - 10 mV/m
Sensitivity ?????
Time resolution 30 s
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Location of the data Online (http://www.iki.rssi.ru/da.html)
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High-resolution data (support, place, contact) Marina Shevchenko (mshevche@arc.iki.rssi.ru)