Overview

The WIND 3-D Plasma experiment makes measurements of the full 3-D distribution of suprathermal electrons and ions, with high sensitivity, wide dynamic range, good energy and angular resolution, and high time resolution. These features will allow the experiment to accomplish its scientific goals of exploring the suprathermal particle population between the solar wind and low energy cosmic rays, to study particle acceleration and transport and wave-particle interactions, and to monitor particle input to and output from the Earth's magnetosphere.

The experiment consists of three detector systems: solid state telescopes (SST), electron electrostatic analyzers (EESA), and ion electrostatic analyzers (PESA).

In addition, a Fast Particle Correlator (FPC) combines electron data from the electron analyzer with plasma wave data from the WAVES experiment to study wave-particle interactions.

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Questions about the WIND 3-D Plasma and Energetic Particle Experiment should be directed to the Principal Investigator Dr. Robert P. Lin
boblin@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu
These pages designed by Jasper Halekas
jazzman@ssl.berkeley.edu