The RPW Low Frequency Receiver (LFR) on Solar Orbiter: in-situ LF electric and magnetic field measurements of the solar wind expansion

Thomas Chust; Olivier Le Contel; Matthieu Berthomier; Alessandro Retinò; Fouad Sahraoui; Alexis Jeandet; Paul Leroy; Jean-Christophe Pellion; Véronique Bouzid; Bruno Katra; Rodrigue Piberne; Yuri Khotyaintsev; Andris Vaivads; Volodya Krasnoselskikh; Matthieu Kretzschmar; Jan Souček; Ondrej Santolík; Milan Maksimovic; Stuart D. Bale

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10050

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EGU2020-10050

https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10050

EGU General Assembly 2020

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The RPW Low Frequency Receiver (LFR) on Solar Orbiter: in-situ LF electric and magnetic field measurements of the solar wind expansion

Thomas Chust¹, Olivier Le Contel¹, Matthieu Berthomier¹, Alessandro Retinò¹, Fouad Sahraoui¹, Alexis Jeandet¹, Paul Leroy^1,2, Jean-Christophe Pellion¹, Véronique Bouzid¹, Bruno Katra¹, Rodrigue Piberne¹, Yuri Khotyaintsev³, Andris Vaivads^3,4, Volodya Krasnoselskikh⁵, Matthieu Kretzschmar^5,6, Jan Souček⁷, Ondrej Santolík^7,8, Milan Maksimovic⁹, Stuart D. Bale^10,11,12, and the MMS team^*

Thomas Chust et al.

¹LPP/CNRS, Space Plasmas, Palaiseau, France (thomas.chust@lpp.polytechnique.fr)
²Université de Rennes 1, Rennes, France
³Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden
⁴Department of Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
⁵LPC2E/CNRS, Orléans, France
⁶Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France
⁷Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
⁸Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
⁹LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Meudon, France
¹⁰Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
¹¹Physics Department, University of California, CA, USA
¹²Stellar Scientific, Berkeley, CA, USA
^*A full list of authors appears at the end of the abstract

Solar Orbiter (SO) is an ESA/NASA mission for exploring the Sun-Heliosphere connection which has been launched in February 2020. The Low Frequency Receiver (LFR) is one of the main subsystems of the Radio and Plasma Wave (RPW) experiment on SO. It is designed for characterizing the low frequency (~0.1Hz–10kHz) electromagnetic fields & waves which develop, propagate, interact, and dissipate in the solar wind plasma. In correlation with particle observations it will help to understand the heating and acceleration processes at work during its expansion. We will present the first LFR data gathered during the Near Earth Commissioning Phase, and will compare them with MMS data recorded in similar solar wind condition.

MMS team:

Laurent Mirioni (1), Robert E. Ergun (13), Per-Arne Lindqvist (14), James L. Burch (15), Roy B. Torbert (16), Robert J. Strangeway (17), Barbara J Giles (18)

How to cite: Chust, T., Le Contel, O., Berthomier, M., Retinò, A., Sahraoui, F., Jeandet, A., Leroy, P., Pellion, J.-C., Bouzid, V., Katra, B., Piberne, R., Khotyaintsev, Y., Vaivads, A., Krasnoselskikh, V., Kretzschmar, M., Souček, J., Santolík, O., Maksimovic, M., and Bale, S. D. and the MMS team: The RPW Low Frequency Receiver (LFR) on Solar Orbiter: in-situ LF electric and magnetic field measurements of the solar wind expansion, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-10050, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-10050, 2020.

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