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CASSINI-HUYGENS Cluster II WBD (The Wide-band Plasma Wave Investigation)

WBD imageAs 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


  
     
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