Speaker
Andrea Cesarini
(INFN, Sezione di Firenze)
Description
LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was the European Space Agency (ESA) technology demonstrator of the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). The LPF spacecraft (S/C) was orbiting at about 1.5 x 10^6 km away from the Earth around the first Sun-Earth Lagrangian libration point (L1). Using fluxgate platform magnetometer measurements, it was possible to resolve the magnetic field generated on board (typically ~1 μT) from that of interplanetary origin (1-25 nT). The technique here proposed can be applied in the case of any other S/C carrying on board platform magnetometers, provided the availability of the entire housekeeping dataset.
Primary author
Andrea Cesarini
(INFN, Sezione di Firenze)
