EGU2020-5800
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5800
EGU General Assembly 2020
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The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter : Capabilities, Performance and First results.

Milan Maksimovic1, Jan Souček2, Stuart D. Bale3,4, Xavier Bonnin1, Thomas Chust5, Yuri Khotyaintsev6, Matthieu Kretzschmar7, Dirk Plettemeier8, Manfred Steller9, and Štěpán Štverák10
Milan Maksimovic et al.
  • 1LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France (milan.maksimovic@obspm.fr)
  • 2Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague CZ-14131, Czech Republic
  • 3Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • 4Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
  • 5LPP, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, PSL Research University, Palaiseau, Paris, France
  • 6Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden
  • 7LPC2E, CNRS, 3A avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, Orléans, France ; 7. Université d’Orléans, Orléans, France
  • 8Technische Universität Dresden, Würzburger Str. 35, D-01187 Dresden, Germany
  • 9Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria
  • 10Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-14100 Prague, Czech Republic

We will review the instrumental capabilities of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter which at the time of writing this abstract is planned for a launch on February 5th 2020. This instrument is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from 'DC' to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW will also observe solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz. The RPW instrument is of primary importance to the Solar Orbiter mission and science requirements, since it is essential to answer three of the four mission overarching science objectives. In addition, RPW will exchange on-board data with the other in-situ instruments, in order to process algorithms for interplanetary shocks and type III Langmuir waves detections. If everything goes well after the launch, we will hopefully be able to present the first RPW data and results gathered during the commissioning.

How to cite: Maksimovic, M., Souček, J., Bale, S. D., Bonnin, X., Chust, T., Khotyaintsev, Y., Kretzschmar, M., Plettemeier, D., Steller, M., and Štverák, Š.: The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter : Capabilities, Performance and First results., EGU General Assembly 2020, Online, 4–8 May 2020, EGU2020-5800, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-5800, 2020

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