Authors
RB Torbert, CT Russell, W Magnes, RE Ergun, P-A Lindqvist, Olivier LeContel, H Vaith, J Macri, S Myers, D Rau, J Needell, B King, M Granoff, M Chutter, I Dors, G Olsson, Yuri V Khotyaintsev, Anders Eriksson, CA Kletzing, S Bounds, B Anderson, W Baumjohann, M Steller, K Bromund, Guan Le, R Nakamura, RJ Strangeway, HK Leinweber, S Tucker, J Westfall, D Fischer, F Plaschke, J Porter, K Lappalainen
Publication date
2016/3
Source
Space Science Reviews
Volume
199
Pages
105-135
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Description
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 MMS, including the dayside magnetopause and the night-side magnetotail acceleration regions out to 25 Re. Six sensors on each of the four MMS spacecraft provide overlapping measurements of these fields with sensitive cross-calibrations both before and after launch. The FIELDS magnetic sensors consist of redundant flux-gate magnetometers (AFG and DFG) over the frequency range from DC to 64 Hz, a search coil magnetometer (SCM) providing AC measurements over the full whistler mode spectrum expected to be seen on MMS, and an Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) that calibrates offsets for the magnetometers. The FIELDS three-axis electric field measurements are provided by two sets of …
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