Magnetic field fluctuations measurement onboard ESA/JUICE mission by search-coil magnetometer: SCM instrument as a part of RPWI consortium

Alessandro Retinò (1) , Thomas Chust (1) , Malik Mansour (1) , Patrick Canu (1) , Fouad Sahraoui (1) , Olivier Le Contel (1) , Dominique Alison (1) , Gérard Sou (2) , Laurent Varizat (1, 2) , Jean-Denis Techer (3) , A. Jeandet (1) , N. Geyskens , M. Chariet , B. Cecconi (4) , J. Bergman , J. E. Wahlund , O. Santolík , J. Soucek , M. Dougherty

1 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
2 L2E - Laboratoire d'Electronique et Electromagnétisme
3 LPP - Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas
4 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique

The JUpiter ICy moons Explorer (JUICE) mission is planned for launch in 2022 with arrival at Jupiter in 2029 and will spend at least three years making detailed observations of Jupiter's system. The Radio and Plasma Wave Investigation (RPWI) consortium will carry the most advanced set of electric and magnetic fields sensors ever flown therein, which will allow to characterize the plasma wave environment and the radio emission of Jupiter and its icy moons in great detail. The Search Coil Magnetometer (SCM) will provide high-quality measurements of the magnetic field fluctuations' vector for RPWI. Here we present the technical features of the SCM instrument and we discuss its scientific objectives.

Domaines: Physique des plasmas [physics.plasm-ph]; Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Alessandro Retinò, Thomas Chust, Malik Mansour, Patrick Canu, Fouad Sahraoui, et al.. Magnetic field fluctuations measurement onboard ESA/JUICE mission by search-coil magnetometer: SCM instrument as a part of RPWI consortium. European Planetary Science Congress 2017, Sep 2017, Riga, Latvia. pp.EPSC2017-510. ⟨hal-02796726⟩