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The Electric Field and Waves (EFW) instrument measures the 2D electric field (in the spacecraft spin plane) and spacecraft potential with sampling rates, on some occasions, up to 36,000 samples/s. We present a summary of the CAA data products produced from the EFW measurements. We briefly describe the production pipeline from the raw data to final data products and discuss the most common caveats.
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Khotyaintsev, Y., Lindqvist, PA., Eriksson, A., André, M. (2010). The EFW Data in the CAA. In: Laakso, H., Taylor, M., Escoubet, C. (eds) The Cluster Active Archive. Astrophysics and Space Science Proceedings. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3499-1_6
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