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McMurdo SearchCoil Instrument

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spase://SMWG/Instrument/ICESTAR/McMurdo/SearchCoil

Description

Tohoku University has provided search coil magnetometers for each PENGUIn AGO. Variations in magnetic fields are measured along three orthogonal components (N-S, E-W, and vertical) by individual coils which are buried at a depth of 1 m from the snow surface with a distance of at least 5 m between sensors. Each search coil has a linear frequency response from ~0.001 Hz to 2 Hz, and is equipped with a low pass filter with a cutoff frequency of 2 Hz. The output signals of each coil are sampled simultaneously at 0.5-s intervals and are digitized using a 12-bit A/D converter, providing a dynamic range of +/- 1.6 pT to +/- 3.2 nT at 1 Hz and +/- 160 pT to +/- 320 nT at 0.01 Hz.

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spase://SMWG/Instrument/ICESTAR/McMurdo/SearchCoil
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McMurdo SearchCoil Instrument
ReleaseDate
2026-07-07 12:34:56.789Z
Description

Tohoku University has provided search coil magnetometers for each PENGUIn AGO. Variations in magnetic fields are measured along three orthogonal components (N-S, E-W, and vertical) by individual coils which are buried at a depth of 1 m from the snow surface with a distance of at least 5 m between sensors. Each search coil has a linear frequency response from ~0.001 Hz to 2 Hz, and is equipped with a low pass filter with a cutoff frequency of 2 Hz. The output signals of each coil are sampled simultaneously at 0.5-s intervals and are digitized using a 12-bit A/D converter, providing a dynamic range of +/- 1.6 pT to +/- 3.2 nT at 1 Hz and +/- 160 pT to +/- 320 nT at 0.01 Hz.

Acknowledgement
Please acknowledge Roger L. Arnoldy, Space Science Center (Morse Hall, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824-3525) for use of data from the McMurdo SearchCoil instrument.
Contacts
RolePersonStartDateStopDateNote
1.PrincipalInvestigatorspase://SMWG/Person/Roger.L.Arnoldy
2.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/Lee.Frost.Bargatze
3.MetadataContactspase://SMWG/Person/James.M.Weygand
InformationURL
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The McMurdo SearchCoil web site
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The McMurdo SearchCoil web site

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SearchCoil
InvestigationName
ICESTAR
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