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K. Okrafka
Researcher at Braunschweig University of Technology
Publications - 2
Citations - 1269
K. Okrafka is an academic researcher from Braunschweig University of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Magnetic field & Magnetosphere. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 1095 citations.
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The THEMIS Fluxgate Magnetometer
H. U. Auster,Karl-Heinz Glassmeier,Werner Magnes,O. Aydogar,Wolfgang Baumjohann,D. Constantinescu,David Fischer,Karl-Heinz Fornacon,E. Georgescu,Peter Harvey,Olaf Hillenmaier,R. Kroth,Michael Ludlam,Yasuhito Narita,Rumi Nakamura,K. Okrafka,Ferdinand Plaschke,Ingo Richter,H. Schwarzl,B. Stoll,Aris Valavanoglou,M. Wiedemann +21 more
TL;DR: The THEMIS Fluxgate Magnetometer (FGM) as discussed by the authors was designed to study abrupt reconfigurations of the Earth's magnetosphere during the substorm onset phase and is capable of detecting variations of the magnetic field with amplitudes of 0.01 nT.
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The fluxgate magnetometer of the BepiColombo Mercury Planetary Orbiter
Karl-Heinz Glassmeier,H. U. Auster,Daniel Heyner,K. Okrafka,Chris Carr,G. Berghofer,Brian J. Anderson,André Balogh,Wolfgang Baumjohann,Peter J. Cargill,Ulrich R. Christensen,Magda Delva,M. K. Dougherty,Karl-Heinz Fornacon,Timothy S. Horbury,E. A. Lucek,Werner Magnes,Mioara Mandea,Ayako Matsuoka,Masaki Matsushima,Uwe Motschmann,Rumi Nakamura,Yasuhito Narita,Helen O'Brien,Ingo Richter,Konrad Schwingenschuh,Hidetoshi Shibuya,James A. Slavin,Christophe Sotin,B. Stoll,Hideo Tsunakawa,S. Vennerstrom,Joachim Vogt,Tiantian Zhang +33 more
TL;DR: The magnetometer (MAG) on the Mercury Planetary Orbiter (MPO) of the joint European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to planet Mercury is a low-noise, tri-axial, dual-sensor, digital fluxgate instrument with its sensors mounted on a 2.8m-long boom as discussed by the authors.