PARKER SOLAR PROBE FIELDS Level 2 Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG) Data (CDF)

This data set contains the PARKER SOLAR PROBE FIELDS Level 2 Fluxgate Magnetometer (MAG) data. The waveforms consist of 3 components of the magnetic field, expressed in RTN coordinates (BR, BT, BN) and in spacecraft coordinates (Bx, By, Bz). The MAG has a bandwidth of approximately 100 Hz and operates almost continuously during the full orbit. The time resolution for the waveforms is 150000 Hz / 2^N. During encounter phases (i.e. during a period of typically two weeks around each perihelion) either N=9, giving 292.969 samples per second or N=10, giving 146.484 samples per second. The measurement dynamic range of MAG is ±65,536 nT with a resolution of 16 bits. MAG data are in nT units. Time (epoch) is in TT2000 format and corresponds to nanoseconds since 1 Jan 2000 12:00:00 with leap seconds included. Calculation of the PSP-Sun distance for the selection criterion (see Filter tab) is realized each day at 00:00. References: FIELDS website: https://fields.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Bale, S. et al. (2016), The FIELDS Instrument Suite for Solar Probe Plus. Measuring the Coronal Plasma and Magnetic Field, Plasma Waves and Turbulence, and Radio Signatures of Solar Transients, Space Science Reviews, Volume 204, Issue 1-4, pp.49-82, doi:10.1007/s11214-016-0244-5