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  <Instrument>
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      <ResourceName>PLA</ResourceName>

      <AlternateName>Plasma Instrument</AlternateName>

      <ReleaseDate>2019-05-05T12:34:56Z</ReleaseDate>

      <Description>      
    The IRM plasma instrument (G. Paschmann, PI) consists of two symmetrical quadrispherical electrostatic analyzers, one for ions and one for electrons, which measure the complete 3-D velocity distribution function in one spacecraft revolution (4s). The energy range covered is 15eV/q to 30 keV/q for electrons and 20 eV/q to 40 keV/q for ions. The angular resolution is 22.5°. Microcomputers within the experiment compute the moments of the distribution functions in real time. An additional retarding potential analyzer measured the flux of electrons between approximately 0 and 25 eV.

    For more details, see Paschmann, G., et al., The Plasma Instrument for AMPTE IRM, IEEE Trans. Geosci. Remote Sens., GE-23, 262, 1985.
 

      </Description>
      <Acknowledgement>User will acknowledge the AMPTE/IRM plasma analyzer team in any publication resulting from the use of these data.</Acknowledgement>
      <Contact>

        <PersonID>spase://SMWG/Person/Goetz.Paschmann</PersonID>

        <Role>PrincipalInvestigator</Role>
      </Contact>
      <InformationURL>

        <Name>The Plasma Instrument for AMPTE IRM</Name>

        <URL>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3204413_The_plasma_instrument_for_AMPTE_IRM</URL>
        <Description>Link to an article about the instrument on ReasearchGate</Description>
      </InformationURL>
      <InformationURL>
        <Name>NSSDC Master Catalog</Name>
        <URL>https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/experiment/display.action?id=1984-088B-02</URL>
        <Description>Information about the AMPTE-IRM magnetometer</Description>
      </InformationURL>
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    <InstrumentType>QuadrisphericalAnalyser</InstrumentType>

    <InvestigationName>Triaxial Fluxgate Magnetometer</InvestigationName>
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