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- Voyager Magnetometer Data
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- Instrument Description - Magnetometer
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- A magnetometer is a direct sensing instrument that measures
- astronomical magnetic fields. the most common type is the flux-
- gate magnetometer. This is the type of magnetometer used on
- Voyagers 1 and 2.
-
- Magnetometers can provide precise and accurate measurments of
- magnetic fields in the outer solar system and possibly also in
- the interstellar medium. Other objectives may be to study the
- interactions of the solar wind with planetary fields or
- ionospheres, to investigate the interactions of satellites with
- planetary fields and with the solar wind in some cases; to search
- for evidence of internal satellite fields whn near-encounters
- with satellites are achieved; and to study the large-scale
- structure of the interplanetary magnetic field. Magnetometers
- also are used to study hydromagnetic wave phenomena in
- magnetospheres and solar wind.
-
- To insure long term reliability, the instrument design includes
- both dual magnetometer systems and reduncancy of all critical
- internal functions. In addition, the dual LFM configuration
- permits removal of the magnetic field of spacecraft from the
- measurements throughout the mission. Magnetic field measurements
- may also complement plasma and energetic particle measurements
- and radio astronomy observations, both in the vicinity of the
- planets and in interplanetary space.
-
- The Voyager fluxgate magnetometers provide vector field
- measurements. The enclosed data is a time series (1.92 second
- averages) of the three components of the field in spherical
- jovigraphic coordinates and the field magnitude. Bx is the radial
- component, By is the theta component and Bz is the phi component.
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- The magnetometer files on this disk are V1HIES2.TAB and
- V13H1.TAB.