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An improved sheath impedance model for the Van Allen Probes EFW instrument: Effects of the spin axis antenna
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SYSNO ASEP 0476047 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title An improved sheath impedance model for the Van Allen Probes EFW instrument: Effects of the spin axis antenna Author(s) Hartley, D. P. (US)
Kletzing, C. A. (US)
Kurth, W. S. (US)
Hospodarsky, G. B. (US)
Bounds, S. R. (US)
Averkamp, T. F. (US)
Bonnell, J. W. (US)
Santolík, Ondřej (UFA-U) RID, ORCID
Wygant, J. R. (US)Number of authors 9 Source Title Journal of Geophysical Research-Space Physics. - : Wiley - ISSN 2169-9380
Roč. 122, č. 4 (2017), s. 4420-4429Number of pages 10 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords antenna sheath impedance ; electric field ; Van Allen Probes ; EFW ; EMFISIS ; whistler mode waves Subject RIV BL - Plasma and Gas Discharge Physics OECD category Fluids and plasma physics (including surface physics) R&D Projects LH15304 GA MŠMT - Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS) Institutional support UFA-U - RVO:68378289 UT WOS 000401340800038 EID SCOPUS 85017619056 DOI 10.1002/2016JA023597 Annotation A technique to quantitatively determine the sheath impedance of the Van Allen Probes Electric Field and Waves (EFW) instrument is presented. This is achieved, for whistler mode waves, through a comparison between the total electric field wave power spectra calculated from magnetic field observations and cold plasma theory and the total electric field wave power measured by the EFW spherical double probes instrument. In a previous study, a simple density-dependent sheath impedance model was developed in order to account for the differences between the observed and calculated wave electric field. The current study builds on this previous work by investigating the remaining discrepancies, identifying their cause, and developing an improved sheath impedance correction. Analysis reveals that anomalous gains are caused by the spin axis antennas measuring too much electric field at specific densities and frequencies. This is accounted for in an improved sheath impedance model by introducing a density-dependent function describing the relative effective length of the probe separation, Leff, in addition to the sheath capacitance and resistance values previously calculated. Leff values vary between between 0.5 and 1.2, with values >1 accounting for the anomalous gains and values <1 accounting for the shorting effect at low densities. Applying this improved sheath impedance model results in a significant increase in the agreement level between observed and calculated electric field power spectra and wave powers over the previous model. Workplace Institute of Atmospheric Physics Contact Kateřina Adamovičová, adamovicova@ufa.cas.cz, Tel.: 272 016 012 ; Kateřina Potužníková, kaca@ufa.cas.cz, Tel.: 272 016 019 Year of Publishing 2018
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