The Polar PWI Sweep Frequency Receiver-B (SFR-B) collected data from March 1996 to September 1997. The SFR-B used the magnetic loop antenna (mounted on a 6m boom and oriented parallel to the Eu antenna). The SFR-B receiver spanned the frequency range from 26 Hz to 808 kHz in 5 bands: 26-200 Hz, 0.2 - 1.6 kHz, 1.7 - 12.6 kHz, 13-100 kHz, 100-808 kHz. Each image is a daily plot of the power spectral density (nT^2 Hz^-1) of received signal (color scale) as a function of operating frequency (in a logarithmic scale on vertical axis) and time (horizontal axis). At the top of each plot is a title indicating the Instrument, Receiver and Antenna used followed by the time span for the spectrogram. Beneath the time labels on the horizontal axis are ephemeris data: position of the spacecraft in radial distance (Earth radii), geomagnetic latitude, magnetic local time, and McIlwain L-shell. Overlaid on each image is a trace of the electron gyrofrequency.
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The Polar PWI Sweep Frequency Receiver-B (SFR-B) collected data from March 1996 to September 1997. The SFR-B used the magnetic loop antenna (mounted on a 6m boom and oriented parallel to the Eu antenna). The SFR-B receiver spanned the frequency range from 26 Hz to 808 kHz in 5 bands: 26-200 Hz, 0.2 - 1.6 kHz, 1.7 - 12.6 kHz, 13-100 kHz, 100-808 kHz. Each image is a daily plot of the power spectral density (nT^2 Hz^-1) of received signal (color scale) as a function of operating frequency (in a logarithmic scale on vertical axis) and time (horizontal axis). At the top of each plot is a title indicating the Instrument, Receiver and Antenna used followed by the time span for the spectrogram. Beneath the time labels on the horizontal axis are ephemeris data: position of the spacecraft in radial distance (Earth radii), geomagnetic latitude, magnetic local time, and McIlwain L-shell. Overlaid on each image is a trace of the electron gyrofrequency.
| Role | Person | StartDate | StopDate | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | PrincipalInvestigator | spase://SMWG/Person/Donald.A.Gurnett | |||
| 2. | GeneralContact | spase://SMWG/Person/J.Douglas.Menietti |
A Polar PWI page is maintained at the University of Iowa with descriptions of interpretation issues, user's guides, data availability tables, a form for creating summary plots and access to pregenerated dynamic spectrograms.
Descriptions of PWI receiver and antenna modes.
Access to web pages listing GIF format plots for Polar PWI SFR-B dynamic spectrograms.