Instruments
General | MGF | EFD | LEP | CPI | EPIC| HEP | PWI
Detailed descriptions of the Geotail mission and instruments can be found in the papers and related sites below. See also contacts and data.
► General Information on Geotail
- Nishida, A., The GEOTAIL mission, Geophys. Res. Lett., 21(25), 2871-2873, 1994. (Abstract and reprint at American Geophysical Union.)
- Geotail Official Site at ISAS/JAXA
- General Information at ISAS/JAXA
► Magnetic Field Experiment (MGF)
- Kokubun, S., T. Yamamoto, M. H. Acuna, K. Hayashi, K. Shiokawa, and H. Kawano, The Geotail Magnetic Field Experiment, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 7-21, 1994. (reprint)
► Electric Field Detector (EFD)
- K. Tsuruda, Hayakawa, H., M. Nakamura, T. Okada, A. Matsuoka, F. S. Mozer, and R. Schmidt, Electric field measurement on the Geotail satellite, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 693-711, 1994. (reprint)
► Low Energy Particle experiment (LEP)
- Mukai, T., S. Machida, Y. Saito, M. Hirahara, T. Terasawa, N. Kaya, T. Obara, M. Ejiri, and A. Nishida, The low energy particle (LEP) experiment onboard the Geotail satellite, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 669-692, 1994. (reprint)
► Comprehensive Plasma Instrumentation (CPI)
- Frank, L. A., K. L. Ackerson, W. R. Paterson, J. A. Lee, M. R. English, and G. L. Pickett, The Comprehensive Plasma Instrumentation (CPI) for the Geotail spacecraft, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 23-37, 1994.
- CPI at the University of Iowa
► Energetic Particles and Ion Composition Instrument (EPIC)
- Williams, D. J., R. W. McEntire, C. Schlemm II, A. T. Y. Lui, G. Gloeckler, S. P. Christon, and F. Gliem, The Geotail Energetic Particles and Ion Composition (EPIC) instrument, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 39-57, 1994.
- EPIC at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
► High Energy Particle Experiments (HEP)
- Doke, T., M. Fujii, M. Fujimoto, K. Fujiki, T. Fukui, F. Gliem, W. Guttler, N. Hasebe, T. Hayashi, T. Ito, K. Itsumi, T. Kashiwagi, J. Kikuchi, T. Kohno, S. Kokubun, S. Livi, K. Maezawa, H. Moriya, K. Munakata, H. Murakami, Y. Muraki, H. Nagoshi, A. Nakamoto, K. Nagata, A. Nishida, R. Rathje, T. Shino, H. Sommer, T. Takashima, T. Terasawa, S. Ullaland, W. Weiss, B. Wilken, T. Yamamoto, T. Yanagimachi, and S. Yanagita, The Energetic Particle Spectrometer HEP onboard the Geotail spacecraft, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 713-733, 1994.
► Plasma Wave Instrument (PWI)
- Matsumoto, H., I. Nagano, R. R. Anderson, H. Kojima, K. Hashimoto, M. Tsutsui, T. Okada, I. Kimura, Y. Omura, and M. Okada, Plasma wave observations with Geotail spacecraft, J. Geomag. Geoelectr., 46, 59-95, 1994.
- PWI at RISH, Kyoto University
- PWI-MCA at the University of Iowa