The Solar Orbiter Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument
M. Maksimović, S. D. Bale, T. Chust, Y. V. Khotyaintsev, V. Krasnoselskikh, M. Kretzschmar, Dirk Plettemeier, H. O. Rucker, J. Souček, M. Steller, Š. Štverák, P. Trávnı́ček, A. Vaivads, Sylviane Chaintreuil, M. Dekkali, Olga Alexandrova, P. Astier, Gaële Barbary, Diane Bérard, X. Bonnin, K. Boughedada, Baptiste Cecconi, F. Chapron, M. Chariet, C. Collin, Y. de Conchy, D. Dias, L. Guéguen, Laurent Lamy, Vincent Leray, Sonny Lion, L. R. Malac-Allain, Lorenzo Matteini, Q. N. Nguyen, F. Pantellini, Jérôme Parisot, Philippe Plasson, Simone Thijs, A. Vecchio, I. Fratter, E. Bellouard, E. Lorfèvre, Pascale Danto, S. Julien, E. Guilhem, C. Fiachetti, Julien Sanisidro, C. Laffaye, F. Gonzalez, Bernard Pontet, N. Quéruel, G. Jannet, P. Fergeau, J.‐Y. Brochot, Gamil Cassam‐Chenaï, Thierry Dudok de Wit, Maria Timofeeva, Tyler Vincent, C. Agrapart, G. T. Delory, P. Turin, Alexis Jeandet, Philippe Leroy, J.-C. Pellion, V. Bouzid, Bruno Katra, Rodrigue Piberne, W. Recart, O. Santolı́k, Ivana Kolmašová, Vratislav Krupař, O. Krupařová, David Píša, Luděk Uhlíř, Radek Lán, Jiří Baše, L. Åhlén, M. André, L. Bylander, V. Cripps, C. M. Cully, A. I. Eriksson, S.-E. Jansson, E. P. G. Johansson, Tomas Karlsson, W. Puccio, J. Břínek, H. Öttacher, M. Panchenko, M. Berthomier, K. Goetz, Petr Hellinger, T. S. Horbury, K. Issautier, Eduard P. Kontar, Säm Krucker, O. Le Contel, P. Louarn, Mihailo M. Martinović, C. J. Owen
Abstract
The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) instrument on the ESA Solar Orbiter mission is described in this paper. This instrument is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from the continuous to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW will also observe solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz. The RPW instrument is of primary importance to the Solar Orbiter mission and science requirements since it is essential to answer three of the four mission overarching science objectives. In addition RPW will exchange on-board data with the other in-situ instruments in order to process algorithms for interplanetary shocks and type III langmuir waves detections.