22 Result(s)
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Open AccessCross-Scale Processes of Magnetic Reconnection
Various physical processes in association with magnetic reconnection occur over multiple scales from the microscopic to macroscopic scale lengths. This paper reviews multi-scale and cross-scale aspects of magn...
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Open AccessCorrection to: The Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data
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Open AccessThe Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves Instrument: Science Results, Measurements, and Access to Data
The Van Allen Probes Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) instrument provided measurements of electric fields and spacecraft floating potentials over a wide dynamic range from DC to 6.5 kHz near the equatorial plan...
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Open AccessThe Space Physics Environment Data Analysis System (SPEDAS)
With the advent of the Heliophysics/Geospace System Observatory (H/GSO), a complement of multi-spacecraft missions and ground-based observatories to study the space environment, data retrieval, analysis, and v...
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Open AccessThe FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus
NASA’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument suite on SPP will make direct measurements of electri...
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Open AccessThe FIELDS Instrument Suite on MMS: Scientific Objectives, Measurements, and Data Products
The FIELDS instrumentation suite on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission provides comprehensive measurements of the full vector magnetic and electric fields in the reconnection regions investigated by M...
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Open AccessMagnetospheric Multiscale Instrument Suite Operations and Data System
The four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft will collect a combined volume of ∼100 gigabits per day of particle and field data. On average, only 4 gigabits of that volume can be transmitted to the grou...
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Open AccessThe Search-Coil Magnetometer for MMS
The tri-axial search-coil magnetometer (SCM) belongs to the FIELDS instrumentation suite on the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission (Torbert et al. in Space Sci. Rev. (2014), this issue). It provides the thre...
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Open AccessThe Spin-Plane Double Probe Electric Field Instrument for MMS
The Spin-plane double probe instrument (SDP) is part of the FIELDS instrument suite of the Magnetospheric Multiscale mission (MMS). Together with the Axial double probe instrument (ADP) and the Electron Drift ...
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Open AccessThe Axial Double Probe and Fields Signal Processing for the MMS Mission
The Axial Double Probe (ADP) instrument measures the DC to ∼100 kHz electric field along the spin axis of the Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft (Burch et al., Space Sci. Rev., 2014, this issue), completi...
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The Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) Instrument for MAVEN
We describe the sensors, the sensor biasing and control, the signal-processing unit, and the operation of the Langmuir Probe and Waves (LPW) instrument on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mis...
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Open AccessThe Electric Field and Waves Instruments on the Radiation Belt Storm Probes Mission
The Electric Fields and Waves (EFW) Instruments on the two Radiation Belt Storm Probe (RBSP) spacecraft (recently renamed the Van Allen Probes) are designed to measure three dimensional quasi-static and low fr...
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Open AccessFirst Results from ARTEMIS, a New Two-Spacecraft Lunar Mission: Counter-Streaming Plasma Populations in the Lunar Wake
We present observations from the first passage through the lunar plasma wake by one of two spacecraft comprising ARTEMIS (Acceleration, Reconnection, Turbulence, and Electrodynamics of the Moon’s Interaction w...
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The THEMIS Digital Fields Board
The Digital Fields Board (DFB) performs the data acquisition and signal processing for the Electric Fields Instrument and Search Coil Magnetometer on each of the THEMIS (Time History of Events and Macroscale I...
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The Electric Field Instrument (EFI) for THEMIS
The design, performance, and on-orbit operation of the three-axis electric field instrument (EFI) for the NASA THEMIS mission is described. The 20 radial wire boom and 10 axial stacer boom antenna systems maki...
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S/WAVES: The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation on the STEREO Mission
This paper introduces and describes the radio and plasma wave investigation on the STEREO Mission: STEREO/WAVES or S/WAVES. The S/WAVES instrument includes a suite of state-of-the-art experiments that provide ...
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The FAST Satellite Fields Instrument
We describe the electric field sensors and electric and magnetic field signal processing on the FAST (Fast Auroral SnapshoT) satellite. The FAST satellite was designed to make high time resolution observations...
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Science Operations and Data Handling for the FAST Satellite
The University of California, Berkeley, is the primary science analysis center for the Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST). It is responsible for processing and routing the science data to the various invest...
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Magnetic Field Instruments for the Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
The FAST magnetic field investigation incorporates a tri-axial fluxgate magnetometer for DC and low-frequency (ULF) magnetic field measurements, and an orthogonal three-axis searchcoil system for measurement o...
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Magnetic Field Instruments for the Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer
The FAST magnetic field investigation incorporates a tri-axial fluxgate magnetometer for DC and low-frequency (ULF) magnetic field measurements, and an orthogonal three-axis searchcoil system for measurement o...
