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nounpicotesla (plural picoteslas)
plural picoteslas
- One trillionth (10⁻¹²) of a tesla.
For each of these three methods, amplitude modulation (AM), phase demodulation (DM), and the double-frequency excitation (DF), we observed signals on the order of a few picoteslas at two widely separated receiver sites for both X and O mode heater polarizations.
1996, J. Villaseñor, A. Y. Wong, B. Song, J. Pau, M. McCarrick, D. Sentman, “Comparison of ELF/VLF generation modes in the ionosphere by the HIPAS heater array”, in Radio Science, volume 31, number 1, →DOI, page 211
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