Automatic calculation of the magnetometer zero offset using the interplanetary magnetic field based on the Wang-Pan method  

作　　者：XiaoWen Hu GuoQiang Wang ZongHao Pan 

机构地区：[1]Chinese Academy of Sciences Key Laboratory of Geospace Environment,School of Earth and Space Sciences,University of Science and Technology of China,Hefei 230026,China [2]Institute of Space Science and Applied Technology,Harbin Institute of Technology,Shenzhen 518055,China

出　　处：《Earth and Planetary Physics》2022年第1期52-60,共9页地球与行星物理（英文版）

基　　金：financially supported by the Shenzhen Science and Technology Research Program(grant no.JCYJ2021032412141-2034);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.41804157,41774171,41774167,41974205,41804157,and 41904156);financial support from the pre-research Project on Civil Aerospace Technologies(grant no.D020103)funded by the China National Space Administration;the 111 Project(grant no.B18017);the Chinese Academy of Sciences Center for Excellence in Comparative Planetology;the Macao Foundation.

摘　　要：The space-borne fluxgate magnetometer(FGM)requires regular in-flight calibration to obtain its zero offset.Recently,Wang GQ and Pan ZH(2021a)developed a new method for the zero offset calibration based on the properties of Alfvén waves.They found that an optimal offset line(OOL)exists in the offset cube for a pure Alfvén wave and that the zero offset can be determined by the intersection of at least two nonparallel OOLs.Because no pure Alfvén waves exist in the interplanetary magnetic field,calculation of the zero offset relies on the selection of highly Alfvénic fluctuation events.Here,we propose an automatic procedure to find highly Alfvénic fluctuations in the solar wind and calculate the zero offset.This procedure includes three parts:(1)selecting potential Alfvénic fluctuation events,(2)obtaining the OOL,and(3)determining the zero offset.We tested our automatic procedure by applying it to the magnetic field data measured by the FGM onboard the Venus Express.The tests revealed that our automatic procedure was able to achieve results as good as those determined by the Davis-Smith method.One advantage of our procedure is that the selection criteria and the process for selecting the highly Alfvénic fluctuation events are simpler.Our automatic procedure could also be applied to find fluctuation events for the Davis-Smith method.

关 键 词：fluxgate magnetometer in-flight calibration zero offset highly Alfvénic fluctuations automatic procedure 

分 类 号：V476.4[航空宇航科学与技术—飞行器设计]