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Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
Articles | Volume 10, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-10-13-2021
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-10-13-2021
© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
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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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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.
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