SH013
Measurement Techniques for Space Plasmas I eLightning

Tuesday, 8 December 2020: 07:00-08:00
Virtual
Primary Convener:  Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Conveners:  Phyllis L Whittlesey, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Georgios Nicolaou, UTSA, Rymdcampus, San Antonio, TX, United States and Jason A Gilbert, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Primary Liaison:  Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
Chairs:  Phyllis L Whittlesey, Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, Georgios Nicolaou, UTSA, Rymdcampus, San Antonio, TX, United States, Jason A Gilbert, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, United States and Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Keiichi Ogasawara, Southwest Research Institute, San Antonio, TX, United States
07:00
Evaluating Electrostatic Analyser measurements of 3D Solar Wind Velocity Distributions: The SIRTH Method (728349)
Jan Steinhagen1, Lars Berger2, Verena Heidrich-Meisner1, Eckart Marsch3 and Robert F Wimmer-Schweingruber4, (1)University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics (IEAP), Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (3)Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany, (4)University of Kiel, Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics, Kiel, Germany
07:03
Novel Technique for Compton edge Calibration of Neutral Particle Detectors using Kernel Density Estimation (773940)
Scott Candey1,2, Georgia Adair de Nolfo3 and J. Grant Mitchell3, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
07:06
Building a Better Fluxgate Core – Implications for Future Magnetic Field Instruments (Invited) (663121)
David Miles1, Scott R Bounds1, Richard T Dvorsky1, Kenton Greene1, Christian Hansen2, Craig Kletzing1, B Barry Narod3, Suman K Sherwani1, Robert J Strangeway4 and Michael D Webb2, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (3)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada, (4)Univ California, Los Angeles, CA, United States
07:09
Dust Measurements in Space (Invited) (667112)
Mihaly Horanyi, University of Colorado, Physics Department, Boulder, CO, United States
07:12
A Double Hemispherical Probe for the Characterizing and Minimizing the Self-Wake Effects on Probe Measurements. (673460)
Joseph Isaac Samaniego, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, Xu Wang, Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States and Li Hsia Yeo, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States
07:15
Tesseract: A High Stability, Nanosatellite Scale Magnetometer for Constellation Missions (675794)
Kenton Greene1, David Miles1, Christian Hansen1, Michael D Webb1, Richard T Dvorsky1, B Barry Narod2, Suman K Sherwani1 and Scott R Bounds1, (1)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (2)University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
07:18
In Situ Measurements of Plasma Convection with FAST TEAMS (680974)
Eric J Lund, University of New Hampshire Main Campus, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Kai Zhao, NUIST Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Institute of Space Weather, Nanjing, China, Lynn M Kistler, Univ New Hampshire, Durham, NH, United States, Niloufar Nowrouzi, University of New Hampshire, Space Science Center, Durham, NH, United States, Simon G Shepherd, Dartmouth College, Thayer School of Engineering, Hanover, NH, United States and Naritoshi Kitamura, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
07:21
Overcoming the Challenges of Measuring Energetic Particles in the Inner Belt: A Geant4-based Performance of an Energetic Particle Detector Instrument, REPTile-2 (709326)
Leng Ying Khoo, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, Xinlin Li, Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States and Richard Selesnick, Air Force Research Laboratory Kirtland AFB, Kirtland AFB, NM, United States
07:24
Forward Modelling of Space Plasma Detectors: An Open Source Toolkit (724526)
Christopher Stephen Arridge, Lancaster University, Physics Department, Lancaster, United Kingdom
07:27
Characterization of Ionosphere-Thermosphere Coupling from the VISIONS-2 Mission (742702)
Kieran Wilson, Johnathan K Burchill and David J Knudsen, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
07:30
Comparing numerical models to laboratory experiment results using the twin-probe method: a technique to improve Langmuir probe measurement accuracy on very small satellites (745935)
Omar Leon1, Walter Hoegy2, Grant Miars2 and Brian E. Gilchrist2, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Applied Physics, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
07:33
Performance characterization of a small SWAP discrete delay line detector for low resource electron spectrometers (750781)
Joseph T Kujawski, Brandywine Photonics, West Chester, NY, United States, Mark L Adrian, NASA/Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Michael R Collier, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, United States and Allan Thomas Weatherwax, Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, United States
07:36
A Compact Digital Implementation of an Impedance Probe (762302)
Charles Swenson1, Joel Mork2, Jason Powell3, Nathan Paul Tipton1, Caleb Young2 and Charles Merritt2, (1)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, United States, (3)Utah State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Logan, UT, United States
07:39
Calibration of the SPORT Langmuir and Electric Field Probes and SPICE Modeling (763504)
Jason Powell1, Nathan Paul Tipton2, Caleb Young3, Joel Mork3 and Charles Swenson2, (1)Utah State University, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Logan, UT, United States, (2)Utah State University, Logan, UT, United States, (3)Utah State University, Logan, United States
07:42
Discussion