Articles | Volume 34, issue 9
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-759-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-34-759-2016
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16 Sep 2016
Regular paper |  | 16 Sep 2016

On determining fluxgate magnetometer spin axis offsets from mirror mode observations

Ferdinand Plaschke and Yasuhito Narita

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Spacecraft-mounted magnetic field instruments (magnetometers) need to be routinely calibrated. This involves determining the magnetometer outputs in vanishing ambient magnetic fields, the so-called offsets. We introduce and test a new method to determine these offsets with high accuracy, the mirror mode method, which is complementary to existing methods. The mirror mode method should be highly beneficial to current and future magnetic field observations near Earth, other planets, and comets.