ELVIS - ELectromagnetic vector information sensor

Bergman, J. E. S. ; Ahlen, L. ; Stal, O. ; Thide, B. ; Ananthakrishnan, S. ; Wahlund, J. E. ; Karlsson, R. L. ; Puccio, W. ; Carozzi, T. D. ; Kale, P. (2005) ELVIS - ELectromagnetic vector information sensor Astrophysics . pp. 1-8. ISSN 0571-7256

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Official URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509864

Abstract

The ELVIS instrument was recently proposed by the authors for the Indian Chandrayaan-1 mission to the Moon and is presently under consideration by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The scientific objective of ELVIS is to explore the electromagnetic environment of the moon. ELVIS samples the full three-dimensional (3D) electric field vector, E(x,t), up to 18 MHz, with selective Nyqvist frequency bandwidths down to 5 kHz, and one component of the magnetic field vector, B(x,t), from a few Hz up to 100 kHz.As a transient detector, ELVIS is capable of detecting pulses with a minimum pulse width of 5 ns. The instrument comprises three orthogonal electric dipole antennas, one magnetic search coil antenna and a four-channel digital sampling system, utilising flexible digital down conversion and filtering together with state-of-the-art onboard digital signal processing.

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