期刊
SPACE SCIENCE REVIEWS
卷 189, 期 1-4, 页码 27-39出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-014-0105-z
关键词
Magnetometer; Fluxgate; Satellite; Field-aligned currents
资金
- NSERC
- Canadian Space Agency
- Canadian NSERC PGSD2 graduate scholarship
- NSERC Industrial Research Chair and Discovery Grant programs
Field-aligned currents couple energy between the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere and are responsible for driving both micro and macro motions of plasma and neutral atoms in both regimes. These currents are believed to be a contributing energy source for ion acceleration in the polar ionosphere and may be detected via measurements of magnetic gradients along the track of a polar orbiting spacecraft, usually the north-south gradients of the east-west field component. The detection of such gradients does not require observatory class measurements of the geomagnetic field. The Magnetic Field instrument (MGF) measures the local magnetic field onboard the Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (e-POP) satellite by using two ring-core fluxgate sensors to characterize and remove the stray spacecraft field. The fluxgate sensors have their heritage in the MAGSAT design, are double wound for reduced mass and cross-field dependence, and are mounted on a modest 0.9 m carbon-fiber boom. The MGF samples the magnetic field 160 times per sec (similar to 50 meters) to a resolution of 0.0625 nT and outputs data at 1952 bytes per second including temperature measurements. Its power consumption is 2.2 watts, and its noise level is 7 pT per root Hz at 1 Hz.
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