Initial in-flight performance results from Solar Orbiter RPW/BIAS
- 1Swedish Institute of Space Physics, Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden (yuri@irfu.se)
- 2Department of Space and Plasma Physics, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
- 3LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Meudon, France
- 4Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
- 5LPP, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, PSL Research University, Palaiseau, Paris, France
- 6LPC2E, CNRS, Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France
- 7Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
The BIAS subsystem is a part of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission. It allows sending bias current to each of the three RPW antennas. By setting the appropriate bias current the antenna potential can be shifted closer to the local plasma potential. This allows us to measure the floating potential of the spacecraft, as well as the electric field in the DC/LF frequency range with higher accuracy and lower noise level. Here we present the very initial results on RPW/BIAS in-flight performance based on the operations during the instrument commissioning.
How to cite: Khotyaintsev, Y. V., Vaivads, A., Graham, D. B., Edberg, N. J. T., Johansson, E. P. G., Maksimovic, M., Bale, S. D., Chust, T., Kretzschmar, M., and Soucek, J.: Initial in-flight performance results from Solar Orbiter RPW/BIAS, EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-14874, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-14874, 2020
