Sensing global Birkeland currents with iridium® engineering magnetometer data

By Brian J. Anderson, Kazue Takahashi, Bruce A. Toth. 2000

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Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Molecular Biology

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Brian J. Anderson
2. Colin L. Waters
3. H. Korth
4. Kazue Takahashi
5. Toyohisa Kamei
6. Bruce A. Toth
7. Hermann Lühr
8. David L. Green

In Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

1. Colin L. Waters
2. Brian J. Anderson

In Molecular Biology

1. Brian J. Anderson
2. Colin L. Waters
3. H. Korth
4. Toyohisa Kamei
5. Kazue Takahashi
6. Bruce A. Toth
7. Hermann Lühr
8. David L. Green

Citations in the corpus

• Field‐aligned currents' scale analysis performed with the Swarm constellation (2014, methodology): “Another multisatellite approach is the AMPERE project [Anderson et al., 2000].”
• Statistical Birkeland current distributions from magnetic field observations by the Iridium constellation (2008, background): “As part of the avionics, each satellite carries a magnetometer that is sensitive enough to detect perturbations from the Birkeland currents (Anderson et al., 2000).”
• Birkeland current system key parameters derived from Iridium observations: Method and initial validation results (2002, methodology): “The typical sample interval for an individual satellite is 200 s [cf. Anderson et al., 2000].”
• Overview of Solar Wind–Magnetosphere–Ionosphere–Atmosphere Coupling and the Generation of Magnetospheric Currents (2017, methodology): “…density in the northern and southern polar regions at a 10 min cadence, fitting a spherical harmonic expansion to the horizontal magnetic perturbations measured by the 66 spacecraft of the Iridium® telecommunications constellation (Anderson et al. 2000, 2002; Waters et al. 2001; Green et al. 2006).”
• Development of large‐scale Birkeland currents determined from the Active Magnetosphere and Planetary Electrodynamics Response Experiment (2014, background): “AMPERE provides global, continuous sampling of the magnetic field perturbations at low Earth orbit from the Iridium Communications constellation of 70 near-polar orbiting satellites [Anderson et al., 2000, 2002; Waters et al., 2001].”