Magnetometer in-flight offset accuracy for the BepiColombo spacecraft

Schmid, Daniel; Plaschke, Ferdinand; Narita, Yasuhito; Heyner, Daniel; Mieth, Johannes Z. D.; Anderson, Brian J.; Volwerk, Martin; Matsuoka, Ayako; Baumjohann, Wolfgang

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-823-2020

Articles | Volume 38, issue 4

https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-823-2020

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https://doi.org/10.5194/angeo-38-823-2020

© Author(s) 2020. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 38, issue 4

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10 Jul 2020

Regular paper |

| 10 Jul 2020

Magnetometer in-flight offset accuracy for the BepiColombo spacecraft

Daniel Schmid, Ferdinand Plaschke, Yasuhito Narita, Daniel Heyner, Johannes Z. D. Mieth, Brian J. Anderson, Martin Volwerk, Ayako Matsuoka, and Wolfgang Baumjohann

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RC1: 'Comments on Manuscript', Anonymous Referee #1, 26 Mar 2020
- AC1: 'Reply to the comments of referee1', Daniel Schmid, 04 May 2020
RC2: 'review of paper', Anonymous Referee #2, 14 Apr 2020
- AC2: 'Reply to the comments of referee2', Daniel Schmid, 04 May 2020
AC1: 'Reply to the comments of referee1', Daniel Schmid, 04 May 2020

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ED: Publish subject to revisions (further review by editor and referees) (10 May 2020) by Georgios Balasis

AR by Daniel Schmid on behalf of the Authors (11 May 2020) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (13 May 2020) by Georgios Balasis

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (14 May 2020)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 Jun 2020) by Georgios Balasis

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Recently, the two-spacecraft mission BepiColombo was launched to explore Mercury. To measure the magnetic field precisely, in-flight calibration of the magnetometer offset is needed. Usually, the offset is evaluated from magnetic field observations in the solar wind. Since one of the spacecraft will remain within Mercury's magnetic environment, we examine an alternative calibration method. We show that this method is applicable and may be a valuable tool to determine the offset accurately.