The THEMIS ESA Plasma Instrument and In-flight Calibration

By J. Mcfadden, C. Carlson, D. Larson, M. Ludlam, R. Abiad, B. Elliott, P. Turin, M. Marckwordt, V. Angelopoulos. 2008

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Substorm current wedge driven by plasma flow vortices: THEMIS observations (2009, methodology): “the ESA instrument [McFadden et al., 2008] which covers energies from a few eV to 25 keV.”
The Solar Probe ANalyzers—Electrons on the Parker Solar Probe (2020, background): “…plasmas in space for six decades of exploration in the Earth’s magnetosphere, ionosphere, the solar wind, the atmospheres of other planets, and at the boundaries of our solar system (e.g., Möbius et al. 1998; Lin et al. 1995; McFadden et al. 2008; Neugebauer 1997; Verscharen et al. 2019).”
The MAVEN Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (2016, background): “Assuming a nominal efficiency of 0.7 (e.g., McFadden et al. 2008), the simulated sensitivity is further reduced to 0.01 cm2 ster eV/eV.”
Wave and particle characteristics of earthward electron injections associated with dipolarization fronts (2010, methodology): “Data from the fluxgate magnetometer (FGM) [Auster et al., 2008], electrostatic analyzer (ESA) [ McFadden et al., 2008 ] and the solid state telescope (SST) [Angelopoulos, 2008] were used in this study and are shown in Figure 2. From top to bottom, we have plotted three components of the magnetic fie”
Magnetic flux transport by dipolarizing flux bundles (2013, background): “…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 measure superthermal (25 keV to >1MeV) ions and electrons [Angelopoulos, 2008].”
Global distributions of suprathermal electrons observed on THEMIS and potential mechanisms for access into the plasmasphere (2010, methodology): “[9] Energy flux data for suprathermal electrons are collected by the electrostatic analyzer (ESA), which can measure electron distributions over an energy range from a few eV up to 30 keV [McFadden et al., 2008].”
The Electric Field Instrument (EFI) for THEMIS (2008, methodology): “The impact of such electrostatic wake effects on the THEMIS EFI measurements is significant, as the occurrence of significant cold plasma densities throughout the magnetosphere (dayside in particular) is far higher than previous observations may have suggested (McFadden et al. 2008a).”
On the current sheets surrounding dipolarizing flux bundles in the magnetotail: The case for wedgelets (2013, background): “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”
Modeling the evolution of chorus waves into plasmaspheric hiss (2011, methodology): “keV [McFadden et al., 2008].”
Anti-sunward high-speed jets in the subsolar magnetosheath (2013, methodology): “From these pre-selected intervals, magnetosheath intervals were identified from THEMIS Electrostatic Analyzer (ESA,McFadden et al., 2008) ion density measurements surpassing twice the corresponding solar Ann.”
Average thermodynamic and spectral properties of plasma in and around dipolarizing flux bundles (2015, methodology): “, 2008] and particle data from the electrostatic analyzer (ESA) [McFadden et al., 2008] and the Solid State Telescope (SST) [Angelopoulos et al.”