The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus
By S. Bale, K. Goetz, P. Harvey, P. Turin, John W. Bonnell, T. D. D. Wit, R. Ergun, R. Macdowall, M. Pulupa, Mats André and 74 more. Space Science Reviews, 2016
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NASA’s Solar Probe Plus (SPP) mission will make the first in situ measurements of the solar corona and the birthplace of the solar wind. The FIELDS instrument suite on SPP will make direct measurements of electric and magnetic fields, the properties of in situ plasma waves, electron density and temperature profiles, and interplanetary radio emissions, amongst other things. Here, we describe the scientific objectives targeted by the SPP/FIELDS instrument, the instrument design itself, and the instrument concept of operations and planned data products.
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- C. Chen
- S. Bale
- B. Chandran
- Justin C. Kasper
- William H. Matthaeus
- V. Krasnoselskikh
- John W. Bonnell
- T. D. D. Wit
Citations in the corpus
- The Evolution and Role of Solar Wind Turbulence in the Inner Heliosphere (2019, methodology): “From the FIELDS instrument suite (Bale et al. 2016), magnetic field data, B, from the outboard fluxgate magnetometer (MAG) averaged to 0.4369 s resolution, and electron density, ne, derived from quasi-thermal noise (QTN) measurements made by the Radio Frequency Spectrometer Low Frequency Receiver…”
- Switchbacks in the Near-Sun Magnetic Field: Long Memory and Impact on the Turbulence Cascade (2019, methodology): “The vector magnetic field is measured on board Parker Solar Probe by the MAG magnetometer from the FIELDS consortium (Bale et al. 2016).”
- The Solar Probe Cup on the Parker Solar Probe (2019, methodology): “A major reason for doing this is so that each spectrum begins precisely at the same time as each spectrum measured by the SPAN instruments and is synchronized to the magnetic and electric field measurements (Bale et al. 2016).”
- First In Situ Measurements of Electron Density and Temperature from Quasi-thermal Noise Spectroscopy with Parker Solar Probe/FIELDS (2019, methodology): “Our results are based on power spectra acquired by the lowfrequency receiver (LFR) of the Radio Frequency Spectrometer (RFS), which is a part of the FIELDS instrument suite on PSP (Bale et al. 2016).”