High-frequency performance of electric field sensors aboard the RESONANCE satellite

Sampl, M.; Macher, W.; Gruber, C.; Oswald, T.; Kapper, M.; Rucker, H. O.; Mogilevsky, M.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-4-81-2015

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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-4-81-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gi-4-81-2015

© Author(s) 2015. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 4, issue 1

Research article

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04 May 2015

Research article |

| 04 May 2015

High-frequency performance of electric field sensors aboard the RESONANCE satellite

M. Sampl, W. Macher, C. Gruber, T. Oswald, M. Kapper, H. O. Rucker, and M. Mogilevsky

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RC C320: 'there are few questions, if answered, may be published', Valery Korepanov, 10 Mar 2015
- AC C327: 'Team response regarding the open questions', Manfred Sampl, 20 Mar 2015
RC C329: 'This version of the article can be recommended for publication', Alexander Chernyshov, 20 Mar 2015

Short summary

We present the high-frequency properties of the eight electric field sensors as proposed to be launched on the spacecraft “RESONANCE” in the near future. Due to the close proximity of the conducting spacecraft body, the sensors (antennas) have complex receiving features and need to be well understood for an optimal mission and spacecraft design. In particular techniques like wave polarization analysis and incident direction finding depend crucially on the presented antenna characteristics.