CASSINI-HUYGENS Cluster II WBD (The Wide-band Plasma Wave Investigation)
As
part of the Cluster Wave Experiment Consortium (WEC), the Wide-band
(WBD) Plasma Wave investigation is designed to provide high-resolution
measurements of both electric and magnetic fields in selected frequency
bands from 25 Hz to 577 kHz. Continuous waveforms are digitized and
transmitted in either a 220 kbit/s real-time mode or a 73 kbit/s burst
mode. The real-time data are received directly by a NASA Deep-Space
Network (DSN) receiving station, and the burst-mode data are transferred
to the spacecraft solid-state recorder for later playback. On the ground,
the waveforms are Fourier-transformed to provide high-resolution
frequency-time spectrograms. The WBD measurements complement those of the
other WEC instruments and also provide a unique new capability to perform
very-long baseline interferometry (VLBI) measurements.
Collaborators
University of Iowa Iowa City, University of Minnesota, Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
Observatoire de Paris,
Centre de Recherches en Physique de L'Environnement Terrestre et Planetaire (CETP), France
University of Sheffield, UK
Austrian Academy of Science Space Research Institute, Austria
Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Sweden
European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), The Netherlands
Contact
Donald A. Gurnett
The University of Iowa Iowa City, USA
donald-gurnett@uiowa.edu
http://despa.obspm.fr/plasma/cassini/cassini.html
http://www-pw.physics.uiowa.edu/plasma-wave/cassini/home.html