SWE, A Comprehensive Plasma Instrument for the Wind Spacecraft

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Feb 1995

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ssrv...71...55o&link_type=abstract

Space Science Reviews, Volume 71, Issue 1-4, pp. 55-77

Physics

392

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The Solar Wind Experiment (SWE) on the WIND spacecraft is a comprehensive, integrated set of sensors which is designed to investigate outstanding problems in solar wind physics. It consists of two Faraday cup (FC) sensors; a vector electron and ion spectrometer (VEIS); a strahl sensor, which is especially configured to study the electron ‘strahl’ close to the magnetic field direction; and an on-board calibration system. The energy/charge range of the Faraday cups is 150 V to 8 kV, and that of the VEIS is 7 V to 24.8 kV. The time resolution depends on the operational mode used, but can be of the order of a few seconds for 3-D measurements. ‘Key parameters’ which broadly characterize the solar wind positive ion velocity distribution function will be made available rapidly from the GGS Central Data Handling Facility.

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