The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument

Maksimovic, M. et al. (2020) The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument. Astronomy and Astrophysics, 642, A12. (doi: 10.1051/0004-6361/201936214)

Abstract

The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission is described in this paper. This instrument is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from the continuous to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW will also observe solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz. The RPW instrument is of primary importance to the Solar Orbiter mission and science requirements since it is essential to answer three of the four mission overarching science objectives. In addition RPW will exchange on-board data with the other in-situ instruments in order to process algorithms for interplanetary shocks and type III langmuir waves detections.

• Item Type: Articles
• Additional Information: We thank the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES, French space agency), the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS), the Paris Observatory, The Swedish National Space Agency, ESA-PRODEX and all the involved institutes for their funding. We thank the ESA Solar Orbiter project team and the Aibus Defense and Space technical team. Javier Rodriguez-Pacheco wishes to thank FEDER/MCIU-AEI/Project ESP2017-88436-R.
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Kontar, Professor Eduard
• Authors: Maksimovic, M., Bale, S.D., Chust, T., Khotyaintsev, Y., Krasnoselskikh, V., Kretzschmar, M., Plettemeier, D., Rucker, H.O., Souček, J., Steller, M., Štverák, Š., Trávníček, P., Vaivads, A., Chaintreuil, S., Dekkali, M., Alexandrova, O., Astier, P.-A., Barbary, G., Bérard, D., Bonnin, X., Boughedada, K., Cecconi, B., Chapron, F., Chariet, M., Collin, C., de Conchy, Y., Dias, D., Guéguen, L., Lamy, L., Leray, V., Lion, S., Malac-Allain, L.R., Matteini, L., Nguyen, Q.N., Pantellini, F., Parisot, J., Plasson, P., Thijs, S., Vecchio, A., Fratter, I., Bellouard, E., Lorfèvre, E., Danto, P., Julien, S., Guilhem, E., Fiachetti, C., Sanisidro, J., Laffaye, C., Gonzalez, F., Pontet, B., Quéruel, N., Jannet, G., Fergeau, P., Brochot, J.-Y., Cassam-Chenai, G., Dudok de Wit, T., Timofeeva, M., Vincent, T., Agrapart, C., Delory, G.T., Turin, P., Jeandet, A., Leroy, P., Pellion, J.-C., Bouzid, V., Katra, B., Piberne, R., Recart, W., Santolík, O., Kolmašová, I., Krupař, V., Krupařová, O., Píša, D., Uhlíř, L., Lán, R., Baše, J., Ahlèn, L., André, M., Bylander, L., Cripps, V., Cully, C., Eriksson, A., Jansson, S.-E., Johansson, E.P.G., Karlsson, T., Puccio, W., Břínek, J., Öttacher, H., Panchenko, M., Berthomier, M., Goetz, K., Hellinger, P., Horbury, T.S., Issautier, K., Kontar, E., Krucker, S., Le Contel, O., Louarn, P., Martinović, M., Owen, C.J., Retino, A., Rodríguez-Pacheco, J., Sahraoui, F., Wimmer-Schweingruber, R.F., Zaslavsky, A., and Zouganelis, I.
• College/School: College of Science and Engineering > School of Physics and Astronomy
• Journal Name: Astronomy and Astrophysics
• Publisher: EDP Sciences
• ISSN: 0004-6361
• ISSN (Online): 1432-0746
• Published Online: 30 September 2020
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2020 The Authors
• First Published: First published in Astronomy and Astrophysics 642:A12
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License