Ulysses Instrumentation Page
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| Instrument |
Acronym |
Investigation |
Principal Investigator |
| Vector Helium Magnetometer & Fluxgate Magnometer |
VHM/FGM |
Magnetic field |
A. Balogh, Imperial College, England |
| Solar Wind Observations Over the Poles of the Sun (Solar Wind Plasma Experiment) |
SWOOPS |
Solar wind plasma |
Dave McComas, Southwest Research Institute, USA |
| Solar Wind Ion Composition Spectrometer |
SWICS |
Solar wind ion composition |
J. Geiss, University of Bern, Switzerland, and G. Gloeckler, University of Marlyand, USA |
| Unified Radio and Plasma Wave Instrument |
URAP |
Radio and plasma waves |
Dr. Robert McDowall, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA |
| Energetic Particle and Interstellar Gas Instrument |
EPAC/GAS |
Energetic paritcles and interstellar neutral gas |
E.Keppler, MPAe, Lindau, Germany |
| Heliospheric Instrument for Spectra, Composition, and Anisotropy at Low Energies |
HISCALE |
Low-energy ions and electrons |
L.J. Lanzerotti, Lucent Technology, USA |
| Cosmic Ray and Solar Particle Instrument |
COSPIN |
Cosmic rays and solar particles |
R.B.McKibben, University of Chicago, USA |
| Gamma Ray Burst Instrument |
GRB |
Solar x-rays and cosmic gamma-ray bursts |
K. Hurley, UC Berkely, USA and M. Sommer, MPE, Germany |
| Cosmic Dust Experiment |
DUST |
Cosmic dust |
E. Grun, MPK, Germany |
| Coronal Sounding Experiment |
SCE |
Coronal sounding |
M.K. Bird, University of Bonn, Germany |
| Gravitational Waves Experiment |
GWE |
Gravitational waves |
B.Bertotti, University of Pavia, Italy |
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