Institution: | 1. Institut für Geophysik und Extraterrestrische Physik der Technischen Universit?t Braunschweig, Mendelssohnstrasse 3, D-38106, Braunschweig, Germany 2. KFKI Budapest, AEKI, P.O. Box 49, H-1525, Budapest, Hungary 3. Space Research Institute Graz, Schmiedlstrasse 6, A-8042, Graz, Austria 4. MPS Lindau, P.O. Box 20, D-37189, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany 7. IKI Moscow, Profsoyuznaja Street 84/32, 117810, Moscow, Russia 6. MPE Garching Giessenbachstrasse, Postfach 1603, D-85740, Garching, Germany 9. DLR, Institut für Planetenforschung, Rutherfordstrasse 2, D-12489, Berlin, Germany 5. Institut für TheoretischePhysik der Technischen Universit?t Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany 8. IGPP at UCLA Los Angeles, California, 90095-1567, USA
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Abstract: | The scientific objectives, design and capabilities of the Rosetta Lander’s ROMAP instrument are presented. ROMAP’s main scientific
goals are longterm magnetic field and plasma measurements of the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko in order to study
cometary activity as a function of heliocentric distance, and measurements during the Lander’s descent to investigate the
structure of the comet’s remanent magnetisation. The ROMAP fluxgate magnetometer, electrostatic analyser and Faraday cup measure
the magnetic field from 0 to 32 Hz, ions of up to 8000 keV and electrons of up to 4200 keV. Additional two types of pressure
sensors – Penning and Minipirani – cover a pressure range from 10−8 to 101 mbar. ROMAP’s sensors and electronics are highly integrated, as required by a combined field/plasma instrument with less
than 1 W power consumption and 1 kg mass. |