The RPW Time Domain Sampler (TDS) on Solar Orbiter: In flight performance and first observations

0538652 - ÚFA 2021 US eng A - Abstract
Souček, Jan - Píša, David - Uhlíř, Luděk - Lán, Radek - Kolmašová, Ivana - Santolík, Ondřej - Krupař, Vratislav - Krupařová, Oksana - Štverák, Štěpán … Total 21 authors
The RPW Time Domain Sampler (TDS) on Solar Orbiter: In flight performance and first observations.
AGU Fall Meeting. American Geophysical Union, 2020. SH036-0005.
[AGU Fall Meeting 2020. 01.12.2020-17.12.2020, online everywhere]
Institutional support: RVO:68378289 ; RVO:67985815
Keywords : solar wind * solar orbiter * radio and plasma waves (RPW) instrument * time domain sampler (TDS)
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science); Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science) (ASU-R)
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The Radio and Plasma Wave instrument (RPW) for Solar Orbiter includes a Time Domain Sampler sub-unit (TDS) designed to capture electromagnetic waveform measurements of high frequency plasma waves and antenna voltage spikes associated with dust impacts. TDS digitizes three components of the electric field and one magnetic field component at a sampling rate of 524 kHz and scans the obtained signal for plasma waves and dust impact signatures. The RPW instrument, including TDS, has been operating and collecting scientific data since shortly after the launch and through the first Solar Orbiter perihelion in June 2020. In this presentation, we will introduce the operation modes and data products of the TDS instrument and discuss observations of multiple plasma phenomena in the solar wind between 0.5 and 1 AU: Langmuir waves including those associated with in situ type III bursts, low frequency ion-acoustic waves and dust impacts.
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