SH035-07
The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter: First results.
Monday, 14 December 2020: 04:24
Virtual
Milan Maksimovic1, Jan Soucek2, Stuart D Bale3, Xavier Bonnin4, Thomas Chust5, Yuri Khotyaintsev6, Matthieu Kretzschmar7, Eric Lorfevre8, Dirk Plettemeier9, Manfred Steller10, Stepan Stverak11, Antonio Vecchio12, Andris Vaivads13,14, Vladimir Krasnoselskikh15, Vratislav Krupar16, Olga Alexandrova17, Pavel Travnicek18, Helmut O Rucker19, Virginia Angelini20, Vincent Evans20, Andrei Fedorov21, Timothy Simon Horbury22, Philippe Louarn21, Helen O'Brien22, Christopher John Owen23, Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco24, Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber25, Yannis Zouganelis26 and The RPW, EPD, MAG and SWA Teams, (1)CNRS, Paris Cedex 16, France, (2)Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Praha 4, Czech Republic, (3)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (4)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Universite PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cite, LESIA, Meudon, France, (5)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (6)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (7)CNRS and University of Orléans, LPC2E, Orléans, France, (8)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (9)Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, (10)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (11)Astronomical Institute AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic, (12)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (13)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (14)KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, (15)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, (16)Universities Space Research Association Columbia, Columbia, MD, United States, (17)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Meudon, France, (18)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (19)Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (20)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, United Kingdom, (21)IRAP, CNRS, Toulouse, France, (22)Imperial College London, Department of Physics, London, SW7, United Kingdom, (23)University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Dorking, United Kingdom, (24)University of Alcalá, Space Research Group, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, (25)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany, (26)European Space Agency, ESAC, Villanueva De La Can, Spain
Abstract:
We will review the first observations and results obtained by the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on the recently launched Solar Orbiter mission. RPW is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from 'DC' to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW is also capable of measuring solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz and link them to solar flares observed by the onboard remote sensing instruments. The first results concern a wide range of phenomena including: low frequency Doppler shifted ion-acoustic waves, Whistler Waves, dust impacts, Langmuir waves, shock crossings, Type III bursts, including events observed simultaneously by the Solar Orbiter Energetic Particle Detector (EPD).
