Error estimate for fluxgate magnetometer in-flight calibration on a spinning spacecraft

Narita, Yasuhito; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Magnes, Werner; Fischer, David; Schmid, Daniel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-10-13-2021

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-10-13-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-10-13-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 10, issue 1

Research article

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27 Jan 2021

Research article |

| 27 Jan 2021

Error estimate for fluxgate magnetometer in-flight calibration on a spinning spacecraft

Yasuhito Narita, Ferdinand Plaschke, Werner Magnes, David Fischer, and Daniel Schmid

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RC1: 'Referee report on "Error estimate for fluxgate magnetometer in-flight calibration on a spinning spacecraft" by Narita et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 02 Nov 2020
RC2: 'Referee report of for "Error Analysis..." Narita et al', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Nov 2020
AC1: 'Reply to RC1 and RC2', Yasuhito Narita, 10 Dec 2020

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AR by Yasuhito Narita on behalf of the Authors (10 Dec 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (12 Dec 2020) by Valery Korepanov

Short summary

The systematic error of calibrated fluxgate magnetometer data is studied for a spinning spacecraft. The major error comes from the offset uncertainty when the ambient magnetic field is low, while the error represents the combination of non-orthogonality, misalignment to spacecraft reference direction, and gain when the ambient field is high. The results are useful in developing future high-precision magnetometers and an error estimate in scientific studies using magnetometer data.