The IMAP Magnetometer
T. S. Horbury, H. L. O’Brien, C. Greenaway, A. Roberts, A. Crabtree, M. Tomes, M. Facchinelli, M. Finlayson, M. Bharatia, E. Fauchon-Jones, M. Tapley, S. Pope, D. Jones, I. Richter, S. Dalla, C. Russell, N. A. Schwadron, M. Gkioulidou, D. J. McComas · 2026
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Description
Horbury and co-authors describe the magnetometer flying on NASA's IMAP mission, in a 2026 instrument paper. From a halo orbit near the Sun-Earth L1 point, the probe maps how the solar wind accelerates and travels. Its magnetic instrument measures the fields that steer those particles and doubles as a space weather sentinel.
The design is a classic dual-sensor fluxgate, quiet enough to hear fields below ten picotesla. It samples two vectors per second steadily and bursts at sixty-four per second for at least eight hours daily. A real-time feed at four-second spacing warns Earth of incoming storms. The paper details requirements, design, and measured performance before the data start flowing.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | T. S. Horbury, H. L. O’Brien, C. Greenaway, A. Roberts, A. Crabtree, M. Tomes, M. Facchinelli, M. Finlayson, M. Bharatia, E. Fauchon-Jones, M. Tapley, S. Pope, D. Jones, I. Richter, S. Dalla, C. Russell, N. A. Schwadron, M. Gkioulidou, D. J. McComas |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 47 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |