The Electric Field Instrument (EFI) for THEMIS

By John W. Bonnell, F. Mozer, G. Delory, A. Hull, R. Ergun, Christopher Cully, V. Angelopoulos, P. Harvey. 2008

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Molecular Biology

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2. Wen Li
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4. V. Angelopoulos
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7. John W. Bonnell
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2. V. Angelopoulos
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8. Christopher Cully

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• The THEMIS Digital Fields Board (2008, methodology): “The Flux-Gate Magnetometer (FGM) [Auster et al, 2008, this issue] and Search-Coil Magnetometer (SCM) [Roux et al, 2008, this issue] measure the magnetic fields, while the Electric Fields Instrument (EFI) [Bonnell et al, 2008, this issue] measures electric fields.”
• The Axial Double Probe and Fields Signal Processing for the MMS Mission (2016, background): “The MOI constraint has been the primary limiting factor in axial boom length on a number of previous missions (Pankow et al. 2001; Ergun et al. 2001; Bonnell et al. 2008).”
• On the current sheets surrounding dipolarizing flux bundles in the magnetotail: The case for wedgelets (2013, methodology): “We thank J.W. Bonnell and F.S. Mozer for the use of EFI data; D. Larso n and R.P. Lin for the use of SST data; C.W. Carlson and J.P. McFadden for the use of ESA data; K.H. Glassmeier, U. Auster, and W. Baumjohann for the use of FGM data provided under the lead of the Technical University of Braunsch”
• Magnetic flux transport by dipolarizing flux bundles (2013, methodology): “Each satellite is equipped with a fluxgate magnetometer (FGM) [Auster et al., 2008], an electric field instrument (EFI) [Bonnell et al., 2008], an electrostatic analyzer (ESA) to measure thermal (5 eV to 25 keV) ion and electrons [McFadden et al., 2008], and two solid-state telescope (SST) heads to…”
• THEMIS analysis of observed equatorial electron distributions responsible for the chorus excitation (2010, methodology): “measured, providing on‐board and ground‐based calculation of spacecraft floating potentials and high‐resolution plasma density measurements [Bonnell et al., 2008].”
• Observations and simulations of non-local acceleration of electrons in magnetotail magnetic reconnection events (2011, background): “The last two panels respectively show spectrograms of the electric field wave amplitude from the electric field instrumen”
• A THEMIS multicase study of dipolarization fronts in the magnetotail plasma sheet (2011, methodology): “Data from the following instruments are used in this study: (1) the Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) [Auster et al., 2008], which provides DC magnetic field measurements with a temporal resolution of 128 vectors per second during the burst mode; (2) the Electric Field Instrument (EFI) [ Bonnell et al., 2”
• Global distributions of suprathermal electrons observed on THEMIS and potential mechanisms for access into the plasmasphere (2010, methodology): “Individual sensor potentials are also measured, providing onboard and ground‐based estimation of spacecraft floating potential and high‐resolution plasma density measurements [Bonnell et al., 2008].”
• Global distribution of equatorial magnetosonic waves observed by THEMIS (2013, methodology): “Electric and magnetic field variations from below the spin frequency (1/3 Hz) to 4 kHz are measured by the Electric Field Instrument (EFI) [Bonnell et al., 2008] and the Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) [Roux et al., 2008], respectively, and the Digital Fields Board (DFB) performs data acquisition…”