SH036-0021
Performances and First Results from the RPW/Search Coil Magnetometer onboard Solar Orbiter
Monday, 14 December 2020
Poster
Matthieu Kretzschmar1, Vladimir Krasnoselskikh2, Thierry Dudok de Wit2, Clara Froment3, Brochot Jean-Yves4, Guilaume Jannet2, Olivier Le Contel5, Milan Maksimovic6, Thomas Chust5, Jan Soucek7, Antonio Vecchio8, Stuart D Bale9, Yuri Khotyaintsev10, Eric Lorfevre11, Dirk Plettemeier12, Manfred Steller13, Stepan Stverak14, Pavel Travnicek15 and Andris Vaivads16, (1)Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace, CNRS & University of Orléans, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (2)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans, France, (3)University of Oslo, Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, Oslo, Norway, (4)LPC2E, CNRS and University of Orléans, Orléans Cedex 2, France, (5)Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas (UMR7648), CNRS/Ecole Polytechnique/UPMC/Univ. Paris Sud/Obs. de Paris, Paris, France, (6)LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris, Meudon, France, (7)Inst. of Atmospheric Physics, Praha 4, Czech Republic, (8)Paris Observatory Meudon, Meudon, France, (9)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (10)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Sweden, (11)CNES French National Center for Space Studies, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (12)Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany, (13)Space Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria, (14)Astronomical Institute AS CR, Prague, Czech Republic, (15)University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (16)School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Space and Plasma Physics, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract:
The Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) onboard Solar Orbiter is part of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) experiment. It measures magnetic field fluctuations in the frequency range from a few Hz to 50 kHz on three axes and between 1 kHz and 1MHz in one axis. RPW has been working nearly continuously and SCM has recorded many interesting features, including whistler and other types of waves as well as local characteristics of turbulence. We will provide an overview of these observations as well as a description of the in flight performances of SCM.
