Citizen science: Development of a low-cost magnetometer system for a coordinated space weather monitoring.

Autor:	Kim H; Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, United States of America., Witten D; HamSCI Community, United States of America., Madey J; HamSCI Community (deceased), United States of America., Frissell N; Department of Physics and Engineering, University of Scranton, Scranton, PA, United States of America., Gibbons J; Case School of Engineering, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States of America., Engelke W; College of Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America., Liddle A; College of Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America., Muscolino N; College of Engineering, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America., Visone J; Department of Physics, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, United States of America., Cao Z; Department of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology, now at Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, United States of America.
Jazyk:	angličtina
Zdroj:	HardwareX [HardwareX] 2024 Sep 07; Vol. 20, pp. e00580. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Sep 07 (Print Publication: 2024).
DOI:	10.1016/j.ohx.2024.e00580
Abstrakt:	As part of Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation (HamSCI) Personal Space Weather Station (PSWS) project, a low-cost, commercial off-the-shelf magnetometer has been developed to provide quantitative and qualitative measurements of the geospace environment from the ground for both scientific and operational purposes at a cost that will allow for crowd-sourced data contributions. The PSWS magnetometers employ a magneto-inductive sensor technology to record three-axis magnetic field variations with a field resolution of ∼ 3 nT at a 1 Hz sample rate. The measurement range of the sensor is ± 1 . 1 × 1 0 6 nT) and is valid over a temperature range of -40 °C to +85 °C. Data from the PSWS network will combine these magnetometer measurements with high frequency (HF, 3-30 MHz) radio observations to monitor large-scale current systems and ionospheric disturbances due to drivers from both space and the atmosphere. A densely-spaced magnetometer array, once established, will demonstrate their space weather monitoring capability to an unprecedented spatial extent. Magnetic field data obtained by the magnetometers installed at various locations in the US are presented and compared with the existing magnetometers nearby, demonstrating that the performance is very adequate for scientific investigations. Competing Interests: The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. (© 2024 The Author(s).)
Databáze:	MEDLINE
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