Wind - Magnetic Fields Instrument (MFI)


PI of the experiment or contact person Ronald P. Lepping
Institute of the PI or of the contact person (country) NASA-GSFC        (USA)
E-mail of the PI or of the contact person rpl@leprpl.gsfc.nasa.gov
Type of experiment A triaxial fluxgate magnetometer mounted remote from the spacecraft on a boom
References about the experiment The WIND magnetic field investigation (E86.1)
Link(s) to Web site(s) http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1994-071A&ex=4
http://lepmfi.gsfc.nasa.gov/mfi/windmfi.html
http://ggsfot.gsfc.nasa.gov/words/MFI.html
http://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/istp/wind/wind_inst.html#MFI
Start experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) 01-11-1994
End experiment operation (dd-mm-yyyy) *****
Lifetime of the experiment (month) *****
Highest data rate 11.1 kbps
Preliminary results Upstream ULF waves and energetic electrons associated with the lunar wake:
Detection of precursor activity (R86.1)
Measured data (k, w, Bo, E(t), B(t), polarisation, Vphase, ...) Vector magnetic field
Data range ± 16, ± 64, ± 256, ± 1024, ± 4096, ± 16384 and ± 65536 nT
Sensitivity 0.004 nT (at 16 nT) to 16 nT (at 65536 nT) in normal mode and
2.5.10-4 nT (at 16 nT) to 1 nT (at 65536 nT) in high resolution mode
Time resolution 46 or 92 s
Sampling rate 44 vector samples per second
Data formats and supports Online
Location of the data CDAWeb     NSSDCftp     ftp://pwgdata.gsfc.nasa.gov/
and http://www-ssc.igpp.ucla.edu/forms/polar/corr_data.html
References about the data http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1994-071A&ex=4&ds=*
High-resolution data (support, place, contact) ?????