Gerlinde Timmermann

PS Planetary and Solar System Sciences

The 2025 Outstanding Student and PhD candidate Presentation (OSPP) Award is awarded to Gerlinde Timmermann for the poster/PICO entitled:

Influence of sensor noise levels on magnetometer calibration (Timmermann, G.; Constantinescu, D.; Kolhey, P.; Richter, I.; Auster, H.-U.; Plaschke, F.)

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Gerlinde Timmermann is a PhD candidate at the Institute of Geophysics and Extraterrestrial Physics of Technische Universität Braunschweig, working in the group of Space Physics and Space Sensorics of Ferdinand Plaschke. Gerlinde's work focuses on magnetometers in space and their characteristics like noise and offset levels, i.e. instrument readings in vanishing ambient fields. She is also working on the Plasma Observatory Mission for the fluxgate magnetometer experiment (MAG).

In the poster she presented at EGU25, she investigated the influence of sensor noise levels on the accuracy of the offsets, using Magnetospheric Multi-Scale (MMS) magnetic field measurements. For this, noise was added to the MMS measurements, which led to difficulties in determining accurate offset levels. Thus it was concluded that determining the offsets will not be possible if the magnetometer used has already a high noise level.