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TI: Preliminary Results of the VLFE Quadrupole Instrumentation From The PARX Sounding Rocket
AU: * Reinleitner, L A
EM: reinleit@ess.washington.edu
AF: Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington P.O.Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195 United States
AU: Holzworth, R H
AF: Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, University of Washington P.O.Box 351310, Seattle, WA 98195 United States
AU: Meadows, A L
AF: Linden Lab, 577 Second Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94107 United States
AB: The NASA Pulsating Auroral Rocket eXperiment (PARX - March '97 from Poker Flat, AK) was equipped with 4 electric field probes oriented (X and Y) perpendicular to the ambient magnetic field, and one probe (along the Z axis) to obtain the parallel electric field. The rocket also included a three-axis VLF search coil magnetometer. The VLF measurements for both instruments were from 100 Hz - 8 KHz. Additionally, the electric field information was used onboard the rocket to obtain the "quadrupole" electric field, defined to be {(V1+V2) - (V3+V4)}/2d, which shows significant response only to short wavelength waves. This instrumentation clearly shows the long wavelength nature of features tentatively described as auroral hiss, and the shorter wavelength nature of the electrostatic and/or quasi-electrostatic waves.
DE: 2704 Auroral phenomena (2407)
DE: 2772 Plasma waves and instabilities
DE: 6984 Waves in plasma
SC: SPA - Magnetospheric Physics [SM]
MN: 2003 Fall Meeting