The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter: First results.

M. Maksimovic (1) , J. Soucek , S. D. Bale , X. Bonnin (2) , T. Chust (3) , Y. Khotyaintsev , Matthieu Kretzschmar (4) , E. Lorfevre (5) , D. Plettemeier , M. Steller , S. Stverak , A. Vecchio (6) , A. Vaivads , V. Krasnoselskikh (4) , V. Krupar , O. Alexandrova (2) , P. Travnicek , H. O. Rucker , V. Angelini , V. Evans , A. Fedorov (7) , T. S. Horbury , P. Louarn (7) , H. O'Brien , C. J. Owen , J. Rodriguez-Pacheco , R. F. Wimmer-Schweingruber , Y. Zouganelis

1 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
3 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
4 LPC2E - Laboratoire de Physique et Chimie de l'Environnement et de l'Espace
5 CNES - Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse]
6 Observatoire de Paris
7 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

We will review the first observations and results obtained by the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on the recently launched Solar Orbiter mission. RPW is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from 'DC' to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW is also capable of measuring solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz and link them to solar flares observed by the onboard remote sensing instruments. The first results concern a wide range of phenomena including: low frequency Doppler shifted ion-acoustic waves, Whistler Waves, dust impacts, Langmuir waves, shock crossings, Type III bursts, including events observed simultaneously by the Solar Orbiter Energetic Particle Detector (EPD).

Keywords: Instruments and techniques; SOLAR PHYSICS; ASTROPHYSICS; ASTRONOMY; General or miscellaneous

Domains: Sciences of the Universe [physics]

M. Maksimovic, J. Soucek, S. D. Bale, X. Bonnin, T. Chust, et al.. The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter: First results.. American Geophysical Union, 2020, Online, France. ⟨insu-03560371⟩