The Search-coil Magnetometer for the THOR mission

Fouad Sahraoui; Guillaume Jannet; Jean-Louis Pinçon; Malik Mansour; Pierre Henri; Gilles Chalumeau; Tedjani Hachemi; Alexis Jeandet; Nicolas Briand; Olivier Le Contel; Laurence Rezeau

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The Search-coil Magnetometer for the THOR mission

Fouad Sahraoui ¹ Guillaume Jannet ² Jean-Louis Pinçon ² Malik Mansour ¹ Pierre Henri ² Gilles Chalumeau ² Tedjani Hachemi ² Alexis Jeandet ¹ Nicolas Briand ¹ Olivier Le Contel ¹ Laurence Rezeau ¹

1 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas

2 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace

Abstract : Turbulence Heating ObserveR (THOR) is the first mission ever flown in space fully dedicated to plasma turbu- lence. The search-coil magnetometer (SCM) of THOR is a triaxial dual-band antenna dedicated to measuring the magnetic field fluctuations in the frequency range [1Hz,4kHz] and [1,200]kHz. THOR/SCM has a long heritage from earlier space missions such as Cluster, Themis, MMS, BepiColombo, Taranis, Solar orbiter and Solar Probe. In comparison to those missions, the SCM of THOR has a higher sensitivity level, which makes it capable of mea- suring very low amplitude magnetic fluctuations, in particular in the solar wind. Those measurements are crucial to address the problem of turbulence and energy dissipation at electron scales, a central goal of the THOR mission.

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