# The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter: Capabilities, Performance and First results.

Milan Maksimovic, Jan Souček, Stuart D. Bale, Xavier Bonnin, Thomas Chust, Yuri Khotyaintsev, Matthieu Kretzschmar, Dirk Plettemeier, Manfred Steller, Štěpán Štverák

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# The Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter : Capabilities, Performance and First results.

Milan Maksimovic<fnref n="1" />, Jan Souček<fnref n="2" />, Stuart D. Bale<fnref n="3" />,<fnref n="4" />, Xavier Bonnin<fnref n="1" />, Thomas Chust<fnref n="5" />, Yuri Khotyaintsev<fnref n="6" />, Matthieu Kretzschmar<fnref n="7" />, Dirk Plettemeier<fnref n="8" />, Manfred Steller<fnref n="9" />, and Štěpán Štverák<fnref n="10" />

We will review the instrumental capabilities of the Radio and Plasma Waves (RPW) Instrument on Solar Orbiter which at the time of writing this abstract is planned for a launch on February 5th 2020. This instrument is designed to measure in-situ magnetic and electric fields and waves from 'DC' to a few hundreds of kHz. RPW will also observe solar radio emissions up to 16 MHz. The RPW instrument is of primary importance to the Solar Orbiter mission and science requirements, since it is essential to answer three of the four mission overarching science objectives. In addition, RPW will exchange on-board data with the other in-situ instruments, in order to process algorithms for interplanetary shocks and type III Langmuir waves detections. If everything goes well after the launch, we will hopefully be able to present the first RPW data and results gathered during the commissioning.

<footnote n="1">¹LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 5 place Jules Janssen, 92195 Meudon, France (milan.maksimovic@obspm.fr)</footnote>

<footnote n="2">²Institute of Atmospheric Physics, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague CZ-14131, Czech Republic</footnote>

<footnote n="3">³Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA</footnote>

<footnote n="4">⁴Physics Department, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA</footnote>

<footnote n="5">⁵LPP, CNRS, Ecole Polytechnique, Sorbonne Université, Observatoire de Paris, Université Paris-Saclay, PSL Research University, Palaiseau, Paris, France</footnote>

<footnote n="6">⁶Swedish Institute of Space Physics (IRF), Uppsala, Sweden</footnote>

<footnote n="7">⁷LPC2E, CNRS, 3A avenue de la Recherche Scientifique, Orléans, France ; 7. Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France</footnote>

<footnote n="8">⁸Technische Universität Dresden, Würzburger Str. 35, D-01187 Dresden, Germany</footnote>

<footnote n="9">⁹Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Graz, Austria</footnote>

<footnote n="10">¹⁰Astronomical Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, CZ-14100 Prague, Czech Republic</footnote>