Quick access to tools for Solar Orbiter / SCM&MAG merged magnetic field data:
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- Python script to read and plot the merged magnetic field files.
- Inflight noise of the merged data product is available here.
SOLAR ORBITER is a European Space Agency mission launched in 2020. The LPC2E is responsible for the fabrication and operation of the Search Coil Magnetomer (SCM), which is part of the RPW experiment led by the LIRA (Obs de Paris, France). LPC2E is also Co-PI of RPW. SCM is a tri-axis « search-coil » sensor that measures the magnetic field from 5 Hz to 100 kHz, as well as from 10 kHz to 500 kHz on one of the three axes.
Instrument RPW-SCM of Solar Orbiter. Credit ESA and LPC2E.
LPC2E has developed in collaboration with Imperial College London the merged magnetic field that covers frequency from DC to 4096 Hz. This official data product is available from the Solar orbiter Archiver as level 3 cdf files. A python script to read and plot the merged magnetic field files is available here. The inflight noise of the merged data product is available here.
Please cite the relevant papers when using SCM data, either on its own or as part of the merged magnetic field data :
Merged magnetic field paper: Kretzschmar et al., A&A, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202554731
SCM description paper : Jannet et al., JGR, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1029/2020JA028543
RPW description paper: Maksimovic et al., A&A, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936214
Contact at LPC2E: Matthieu.Kretzschmar@cnrs-orleans.fr
Solar Orbiter ESA website : https://sci.esa.int/web/solar-orbiter/
Solar Orbiter CNES website: https://solar-orbiter.cnes.fr/en/SOLO/index.htm