Inter-comparison of Electric Fields measured by the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) and the Electric Field and Waves Instrument (EFW ) on the CLUSTER Spacecraft

Details Inter-comparison of Electric Fields measured by the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) and the Electric Field and Waves Instrument (EFW ) on the CLUSTER Spacecraft Inter-comparison of Electric Fields measured by the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI) and the Electric Field and Waves Instrument (EFW ) on the CLUSTER Spacecraft

May 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001agusm..sm21b02t&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Spring Meeting 2001, abstract #SM21B-02

Physics

2712 Electric Fields (2411), 2730 Magnetosphere--Inner, 2731 Magnetosphere--Outer, 2760 Plasma Convection, 2794 Instruments And Techniques

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On CLUSTER, electric fields are measured by the double-probe technique (EFW) and by the Electron Drift Instrument (EDI). EFW measures the potential difference between spherical probes spinning in a plane, and computes the two components of the field in that spin plane. EDI measures the drift-step vector, which is the displacement of electron orbits after one gyro-period, and computes the two components of the field in the plane perpendicular to the magnetic field. Comparison of the field along the axis which is common to these two planes, shows very good agreement in many geophysical regions. Combining the two measurements yields a fully three-dimensional electric field measurement which we use to determine the electric fields in several interesting geophysical events seen in the early data from CLUSTER. These electric field data will be used also to compare with particle flow data in these events.

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