Measurement Principle
The Fluxgate Magnetometer onboard Mio (MGF) measures the magnetic field to study various magnetospheric processes (such as magnetic reconnection, field-aligned currents etc.) in Mercury’s magnetosphere, physics of bowshock and magnetosheath, also magnetic field properties in the inner-heliosphere. It consists of two tir-axial fluxgate magnetometers and power supply units. The magnetometer is able to observe the magnetic field with a vector rate of maximum 128 Hz.
Members
- Principal Investigator
- Wolfgang Baumjohann (IWF, Austria)
- Co-PI
- Ayako Matsuoka (Kyoto University, Japan)
- Support Scientists
- Daniel Schmid (IWF, Austria), Yasuhito Narita (IWF, Austria)