Vipin K Yadav

NameVipin K Yadav
AffiliationSPL/VSSC/ISRO
TitleFluxgate Magnetometer (MAG) onboard Aditya-L1 Solar Mission
AuthorsVipin K Yadav and MAG Team
AbstractMagnetic field measurements are regularly carried out in space to sample the local plasma and magnetic environment around a planetary body or a specific location in space. The fluxgate magnetometers (FGMs) are an integral part of most of the spacecraft as they are highly sensitive instruments which measure the feeble magnetic fields in outer space and the interplanetary magnetic field (IMF) emanating from the Sun such as WIND in 1994 and ACE in 1997 to the first Lagrangian (L1) point from NASA. The Aditya-L1 fluxgate magnetometer (MAG) is a 3-axis magnetic sensor mounted on a 6 m boom away from the spacecraft. Two sets of such triaxial sensors are planned to be mounted, one set at the boom tip and the other set midway on boom ~ 3 m from the spacecraft so as to eliminate the magnetic contamination from spacecraft itself. The scientific objectives of this magnetic field experiment are to measure the magnitude and nature of local IMF at L1 point and to study the effect of extreme solar events such as coronal mass ejection (CME), solar magnetic storm, etc. on space weather near the Earth and solar plasma waves. In this talk, the scientific objectives of the MAG onboard Aditya-L1 solar mission shall be presented.