Table 5.
Summary of the RPW capabilities.
| Waves receiversubsystem | Input signal | Spectral range | Spectral resolution | Temporal resolution | Measurement outputs |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Low frequency receiver (LFR) | V1, V2, V3 | ∼DC to 10 kHz | Δf = 8, 128 and 768 Hz or | Spectral products every 4 s and 20 s or | Ei(t), Bi(t), |Ei|2, |Bi|2, Re( ), Im( ) |
| V1 − V2, V2 − V3, V3 − V1 | 4, 64 and 384 Hz or | 1 s and 5 s or 0.25 s and 1 s or 3600 s | Basic parameters: Wave polarization properties and k-vector characterizations | ||
| B1, B2, B3 | 1, 16 and 96 Hz | Snapshot waveforms at 256, 4096 and 24 576 Hz every 300 s | Sunward component of the Poynting vector | ||
| Continuous waveforms at 16, 256 or 4096 Hz | |||||
| Thermal noise receiver (THR) | V1, V2, V3 | 4 kHz to 1024 kHz | Δf/f = 4.3 % | Between 1.13 and 12 s | |Ei|2, Re( ), Im( ) |
| V1 − V2, V2 − V3, V3 − V1 | |||||
| BMF | |||||
| High frequency receiver (HFR) | V1 − V2, V2 − V3, V3 − V1 | 0.4 MHz to 16.4 MHz | Δf = 50 or 100 kHz | Between 2 and 22 s | |Ei|2 |
| Time domain sampler (TDS) | V1, V2, V3 | 0.2 kHz to 200 kHz | N/A | 524 kHz, 262 kHz, 131 kHz | Ei(t), BMF(t) waveform snapshots, wave and dust statistics |
| V1 − V2, V2 − V3, V3 − V1 | |||||
| BMF |
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