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Team

  • Wolfgang Macher: Project & Team lead, Numerical Simulations
  • Manfred Sampl: Electronics & Rheometry, Software Applications
  • Thomas Oswald: Numerical Simulations
  • Helmut O. Rucker: Responsible Scientist


Cooperation

  • Space Research Institute (IKI), 117997, 84/32 Profsoyuznaya Str, Moscow, Russia

Resonance Mission

The aim of the RESONANCE mission is the investigation of wave-particle interactions and plasma dynamics in the inner magnetosphere of the Earth, with the focus on phenomena occurring along the same field line and within the very same flux tube of the Earth's magnetic field. Four spacecraft will be launched (~2015) to perform observations and measurements. Amongst a variety of instruments and probes several low- and high-frequency electric sensors will be onboard which can be used for simultaneous remote sensing and in-situ measurements. Among the investigated processes are:

• Ducted propagation of electromagnetic waves of whistler-mode and ion cyclotron frequency ranges, which play a significant role in the dynamics of  electron and ion radiation belts

• Precipitation of energetic particles in the ionosphere

• Filling the flux tubes with cold and superthermal plasma

• Motion of energetic particles from the regions of auroral acceleration and magnetic reconnection.

The Austrian Space Research Institute has performed dedicated analyses of the electrical field sensors. In the course of the project the reception properties of the antennae, which are supposed to measure the non-thermal radio emissions generated from magnetospheric processes, were analyzed with a specific focus on the high-frequency electric sensors. For that purpose experimental (rheometry) and numerical methods were applied. Further information on the RESONANCE mission is found at the Russian Space Research Institute IKI.

Publications

1.  Sampl et al.: Calibration of Electric Field Sensors onboard the Resonance Satellite, IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation, accepted, 2011.
2.  Sampl, M.: Experimental and numerical antenna calibration in the Resonance mission, Master Thesis, Univ. Graz, 2010.
3.  Sampl et al.: Final results of the Resonance spacecraft calibration effort, EGU General Assembly 2010, Vienna, 2010.
4.  Sampl et al.: Final results of the Resonance spacecraft electrical field sensors calibration effort, The Inner Magnetosphere and the Auroral Zone, Physics, Moscow, 2010.
5.  Sampl et al.: Rheometry, the effective length vector and the Resonance mission, E & I, 5, 28-32, 2009.
6.  Sampl et al.: Rheometry and numerical simulations of antennas onboard the Resonance spacecraft, EGU General Assembly, Vienna, 2009.
7.  Sampl et al.: Resonance spacecraft antenna calibration: Rheometry and numerical simulations, Loughborough Antennas & Propagation Conference, Loughborough University, 710-711, 2009.
Letzte Änderung: 14.10.2011
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