Viking - High Frequency Wave Experiment (V4H)


PI of the experiment or contact person Mogens Jespersen
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) DSRI        (DNK)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person mj@dsri.dk
Type of experiment An air-core loop antenna with an area of 0.1 sq m, mounted on a 2-m boom
with the loop axis parallel to the spacecraft spin axis and two 38-m wire booms,
80 m tip-to-tip
References about the experiment First Viking results : High frequency waves (E85.4)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1986-019B&ex=2
http://www.ssc.se/ssd/ssat/viking/viking.html
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 17-03-1986
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 12-05-1987
Lifetime of the experiment (month) 14
Highest data rate 12.8 kbps
Preliminary results High-Frequency Waves in the Cusp/Cleft Regions (R85.4)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Amplitudes of one electric (Ey or Ez) and one magnetic (Bx) field
component as functions of frequency
Data range 10 - 512 kHz
Sensitivity ?????
Time resolution 37.5 ms
Sampling rate ?????
Data formats and supports Black & White Microfiche and Magnetic Tape
Location of the data NSSDC and Online (SADS and CDPP)
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1986-019B&ex=2&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????