Authors
P-A Lindqvist, Göran Olsson, RB Torbert, B King, M Granoff, D Rau, G Needell, S Turco, I Dors, P Beckman, J Macri, C Frost, J Salwen, Anders Eriksson, Lennart Åhlén, Yuri V Khotyaintsev, J Porter, K Lappalainen, RE Ergun, W Wermeer, S Tucker
Publication date
2016/3
Source
Space Science Reviews
Volume
199
Pages
137-165
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Description
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 Instrument (EDI), SDP will measure the 3-D electric field with an accuracy of 0.5 mV/m over the frequency range from DC to 100 kHz. SDP consists of 4 biased spherical probes extended on 60 m long wire booms 90∘ apart in the spin plane, giving a 120 m baseline for each of the two spin-plane electric field components. The mechanical and electrical design of SDP is described, together with results from ground tests and calibration of the instrument.
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