Magnetometer

Copyright WDC C1 for STP at RAL.

This was supplied by Imperial College London and the University of California, Los Angeles. It was a boom-mounted vector fluxgate measuring over frequencies from DC to 10Hz (sampling resolution up to one-sixteenth of a second). The instrument operated in either of two ranges: (a) at lower sensitivity with a range of +/- 8192nT and an accuracy of +/- 1nT; (b) at higher sensitivity with a range of +/- 256nT and an accuracy of +/- 0.03nT.

Details are available in the following paper:

• D J Southwood et al., The fluxgate magnetometer for the AMPTE UK subsatellite, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, Vol GE-23, No. 3, May 1985, 301-304.

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