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- Title
The Search Coil Magnetometer for THEMIS.
- Authors
Roux, A.; Le Contel, O.; Coillot, C.; Bouabdellah, A.; de laPorte, B.; Alison, D.; Ruocco, S.; Vassal, M. C.
- Abstract
THEMIS instruments incorporate a tri-axial Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) designed to measure the magnetic components of waves associated with substorm breakup and expansion. The three search coil antennas cover the same frequency bandwidth, from 0.1 Hz to 4 kHz, in the ULF/ELF frequency range. They extend, with appropriate Noise Equivalent Magnetic Induction (NEMI) and sufficient overlap, the measurements of the fluxgate magnetometers. The NEMI of the searchcoil antennas and associated pre-amplifiers is smaller than 0.76 pT $/\sqrt{\mathrm{Hz}}$ at 10 Hz. The analog signals produced by the searchcoils and associated preamplifiers are digitized and processed inside the Digital Field Box (DFB) and the Instrument Data Processing Unit (IDPU), together with data from the Electric Field Instrument (EFI). Searchcoil telemetry includes waveform transmission, FFT processed data, and data from a filter bank. The frequency range covered depends on the available telemetry. The searchcoils and their three axis structures have been precisely calibrated in a calibration facility, and the calibration of the transfer function is checked on board, usually once per orbit. The tri-axial searchcoils implemented on the five THEMIS spacecraft are working nominally.
- Subjects
MAGNETOMETERS; MAGNETIC instruments; FLUXGATE magnetometers; ELECTROMAGNETIC waves; ANTENNA equipment; ELECTRIC fields; MAGNETIC fields
- Publication
Space Science Reviews, 2008, Vol 141, Issue 1-4, p265
- ISSN
0038-6308
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11214-008-9455-8